Hackers attack Israel’s Technion university, demand over $1.7 million in ransom
Israel’s Technion university on Sunday suffered a ransomware attack, which has forced the university to proactively block all communication networks.…
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PLC vulnerabilities can enable deep lateral movement inside OT networks
Threat groups who target operational technology (OT) networks have so far focused their efforts on defeating segmentation layers to reach…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of…
U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group
Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating "Trickbot," a…
KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach
KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach…
Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France
Julius "Zeekill" Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for…
Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days
On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to…
Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of…
New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts
T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as…
Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.
Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire services attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or…