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Hydra, the world’s biggest cybercrime forum, shut down in police sting

Enlarge / Laundering of stolen cryptocurrency was a key service offered by Hydra. (credit: Getty Images) Hydra, the world’s biggest cybercrime forum, is no more. Authorities in Germany have seized servers and other…

Zyxel patches critical vulnerability that can allow Firewall and VPN hijacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Zyxel has issued patches for a highly critical security flaw that gives malicious hackers the ability to take control of a wide range of firewalls and VPN…

Russia inches closer to its splinternet dream

Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to…

Explaining Spring4Shell: The Internet security disaster that wasn’t

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hype and hyperbole were on full display this week as the security world reacted to reports of yet another Log4Shell. The vulnerability came to light in December and is…

Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out >10k Viasat modems

Enlarge / A Viasat Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images) Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of…

Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | 3DSculptor) Independent researchers and the United States military have become increasingly focused on orbiting satellites' potential security vulnerabilities in recent years. These devices, which are built primarily with…

Apple rushes out patches for two 0-days threatening iOS and macOS users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run…

IT giant Globant discloses hack after Lapsus$ leaks 70GB of stolen data

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) IT and software development firm Globant said in a statement Wednesday that it experienced a network breach. The statement appeared to confirm claims made by Lapsus$, a group that…

Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s Google”

Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located…

Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a core defense that is among the most effective at preventing account takeovers. In addition to requiring that users provide a username and password, MFA…