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On Friday, the CISA sent out an announcement involving critical vulnerabilities in PHP that required immediate patching.  You might not run PHP yourself,  but that doesn’t mean you’re safe from PHP2Shell. Your SaaS provider might use PHP. Your hosting provider might manage PHP runtimes on your behalf. A third-party [...]

Expect to see quite a few websites serving error pages today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and [...]

U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the [...]

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions. On October 8, the U.K. issued sanctions (PDF) [...]

Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond. Just one of the weaknesses patched [...]

Cyber attacks aren't just a concern for large corporations or IT professionals. Businesses of all sizes face increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats, and understanding how these attacks happen is one of the first steps toward protecting your organization. For business owners, managers, and professionals looking to strengthen their cybersecurity awareness, [...]

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The New York Times reported today [...]

A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle “Rey,” was detained as [...]