Real Hacking

KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending

On Sunday, July 20, <strong> Microsoft Corp.</strong> issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in <strong> SharePoint Server</strong> that is actively being exploited to c

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at <strong> McDonald’s</strong> was exposed after they g

<strong> Marko Elez</strong> , a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s <strong> Department of Government Efficiency</strong> (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.

Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “<strong> Scattered Spider</strong> ,” a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recen

<strong> Microsoft</strong> today released updates to fix at least 137 security vulnerabilities in its <strong> Windows</strong> operating systems and supported software. None of the wea

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment sc