500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining
Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which…
Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer
Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on…
Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer
Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on…
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…
NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20 Million SIM Swap Theft
A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2021 Edition
Microsoft, Adobe, and Google all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed security…
Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare
The accounting firm PricewatersCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland's…
Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government…
Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?
Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is…
Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”
In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed…