Real Hacking

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack... Read more

The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in... Read more

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise... Read more

The U.S. government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal civilian agencies to take new measures t... Read more

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Th... Read more

It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line... Read more

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to constantly create large numbers of new throwaway... Read more

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed pi... Read more

A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running mal... Read more

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social... Read more