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Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers

EnlargeGetty Images Cloud storage provider Snowflake said that accounts belonging to multiple customers have been hacked after threat actors obtained credentials through...

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs

EnlargeGetty Images The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Chinese nationals for their involvement in a VPN-powered botnet with more than 19...

Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating system. BitLocker is a...

Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

EnlargeJAVS A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained...

23-year-old man accused of running $100 million online narcotics marketplace

Enlargeullstein bild / Getty Images News Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an online market...

Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

EnlargeGetty Images | the-lightwriter An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North Korea’s ballistic missile program...

BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI

Enlarge / The front page of BreachForums. The FBI and law enforcement partners worldwide have seized BreachForums, a website that openly trafficked...

Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion

EnlargeGetty Images Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world’s biggest networks...

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

EnlargeGetty Images Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some...

Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.

EnlargeGetty Images Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are...

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