Real Hacking

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service prov... Read more

An Estonian man was sentenced today to more than five years in a U.S. prison for his role in at least 13 ransomware attacks that caused losses of app... Read more

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Mo... Read more

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “ protestware ” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Uk... Read more

Aleksei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Image: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. Aleksei Burkov , a... Read more

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, wit... Read more

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. For the... Read more

Lumen Technologies , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Int... Read more

Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable r... Read more

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal brea... Read more