Real Hacking

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive

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

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 appr

<strong> Pavel Vrublevsky</strong> , founder of the Russian payment technology firm <strong> ChronoPay</strong> and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow th

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “<strong> protestware</strong> ” projects on <strong> GitHub</strong> that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine

Aleksei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Image: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. <strong> Aleksei Burkov</strong> , a cyb

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

<strong> Microsoft</strong> on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its <strong> Windows</strong> operating systems and related software. For the secon

<strong> Lumen Technologies</strong> , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Intern

Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the <strong> Conti</strong> ransomware group, the most profitable rans

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the <strong> Conti</strong> ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breache