National Security Agency

Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

| | alex holden, Hold Security, National Security Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, The Washington Post, TrickBot, U.S. Cyber Command
A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ...
Krebs on Security
Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday

| | Anne Neuberger, CERT Coordination Center, CERT/CC, crypt32.dll, Microsoft, Microsoft CryptoAPI, National Security Agency, nsa, Patch Tuesday January 2020, Time to Patch, Will Dormann, Windows
Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of ...
Krebs on Security
USENIX Enigma 2016 - NSA TAO Chief on Disrupting Nation State Hackers

How to Foil the 6 Stages of a Network Intrusion

| | Enigma, Featured Articles, Hackers, National Security Agency, Rob Joyce, Security Hardening, TAO, USENIX Association
The cost of a breach is on the rise. A recent report from IBM revealed that the average cost of a data breach had risen 12 percent over the past five years ...
The State of Security
Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

| | A Little Sunshine, Armor, Eternal Blue, gandcrab, Joe Stewart, Microsoft Windows, National Security Agency, PCRisk.com, Robbinhood ransomware, robinhkjn, The New York Times, Twitter, Valery
For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as "Robbinhood." Media publications have cited sources saying the ...
Krebs on Security
fileless malware

More Than 120 Malware Detections Triggered on NSA Employee’s Computer

| | backdoor, Equation, Espionage, Kaspersky Lab, leak, Malware, National Security Agency, nsa, spying
Kaspersky Lab has concluded an internal investigation into an incident that led to the company being accused of using its antivirus program to copy secret files from the personal computer of an ...
ML firewalls

Russian Hackers Reportedly Stole NSA Secrets with Antivirus Program’s Help

| | antivirus, Apple, Data breach, Data leak, Hacking, Kaspersky Lab, keychain vulnerability, macos, macOS High Sierra, National Security Agency, password exposure
Russian hackers reportedly managed to steal sensitive U.S. National Security Agency cyberattack tools from the personal computer of a contractor in 2015 after finding the files through an antivirus program from Kaspersky ...