Real Hacking

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it was suing two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware mena... Read more

CISA warned today that threat actors, including state-backed hacking groups, are still targeting VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) serv... Read more

The Israeli firm NSO Group told European lawmakers at least five EU countries have used its software and the firm has terminated at least one contrac... Read more

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of million... Read more

Check out this handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy John’s sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell fr... Read more

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including... Read more

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming thei... Read more

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying c... Read more

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three curr... Read more

Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “ Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet ” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a... Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law th... Read more