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29 Dec, 2021

Happy 12th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 12th anniversary today! Maybe “celebrate” is too indelicate a word for a year wracked by the global pandemics of COVID-19 and ransomware. Especially since stories about both have helped to grow the audience here tremendously in 2021. But this site’s birthday also is a welcome opportunity to thank you all for your continued readership and support, which helps keep the content here free to everyone. …

25 Oct, 2021

Conti Ransom Gang Starts Selling Access to Victims

Cybersecurity Conti ransomware, Digital Shadows, Emsisoft, Fabian Wosar, FIN 12, Ivan Righi, Other, Ransomware, rEvil, Ryuk

The Conti ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti’s malware who refuse to negotiate a ransom payment are added to Conti’s victim shaming blog, where confidential files stolen from victims may be published or sold. But sometime over the past 48 hours, the cybercriminal syndicate updated its victim shaming blog to indicate that it is now selling access to many of the organizations it has hacked. …

1 Apr, 2021

New KrebsOnSecurity Mobile-Friendly Site

Cybersecurity Other

10 Mar, 2021

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2021 Edition

Cybersecurity AskWoody.com, CVE-2021-26411, Dustin Childs, Exchange Server hack, Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2021, Other, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Windows DNS

12 Jan, 2021

SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others

Cybersecurity CrowdStrike, FireEye, Orion, Other, SolarWinds breach, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Sunburst malware, Sunspot malware, Teardrop malware

New research into the malware that set the stage for the megabreach at IT vendor SolarWinds shows the perpetrators spent months inside the company’s software development labs honing their attack before inserting malicious code into updates that SolarWinds then shipped to thousands of customers. More worrisome, the research suggests the insidious methods used by the intruders to subvert the company’s software development pipeline could be repurposed against many other major software providers. …

12 Jan, 2021

SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others

Cybersecurity CrowdStrike, FireEye, Orion, Other, SolarWinds breach, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Sunburst malware, Sunspot malware, Teardrop malware

New research into the malware that set the stage for the megabreach at IT vendor SolarWinds shows the perpetrators spent months inside the company’s software development labs honing their attack before inserting malicious code into updates that SolarWinds then shipped to thousands of customers. More worrisome, the research suggests the insidious methods used by the intruders to subvert the company’s software development pipeline could be repurposed against many other major software providers. …

30 Dec, 2020

Happy 11th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Cybersecurity Other

24 Sep, 2020

Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

Cybersecurity CVE-2020-1472, microsoft, Other, Scott Caveza, Tenable, Windows Server, ZeroLogon

Microsoft warned on Wednesday that malicious hackers are exploiting a particularly dangerous flaw in Windows Server systems that could be used to give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a vulnerable corporate network. Microsoft’s warning comes just days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an emergency directive instructing all federal agencies to patch the vulnerability by Sept. 21 at the latest. …

3 Sep, 2020

The Joys of Owning an ‘OG’ Email Account

Cybersecurity Other

When you own a short email address at a popular email provider, you are bound to get gobs of spam, and more than a few alerts about random people trying to seize control over the account. If your account name is short and desirable enough, this kind of activity can make the account less reliable for day-to-day communications because it tends to bury emails you do want to receive. But there is also a puzzling side to all this noise: Random people tend to use your account as if it were theirs, and often for some fairly sensitive services online. …

11 Aug, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

Cybersecurity adobe acrobat, adobe reader, Black Hat, CVE-2020-1048, CVE-2020-1337, CVE-2020-1380, CVE-2020-1464, CVE-2020-1472, Dustin Childs, Internet Explorer zero-day, Latest Warnings, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2020, Other, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Time to Patch, Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

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