Matt Kapko
Reporter at CyberScoop
Senior reporter @CyberSecDive • dad • lumberjack • grateful lifelong Californian
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2 days ago |
cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko
Federal authorities seized two domains and indicted four foreign individuals for alleged involvement in a long-running botnet service that infected older wireless internet routers, the Justice Department said Friday. The malware created for the botnet allowed infected routers to be reconfigured, which granted unauthorized access to third parties and made the routers available for sale as proxy servers on Anyproxy.net and 5socks.net, according to law enforcement officials.
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5 days ago |
cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko
Voting is open for the 2025 CyberScoop 50 awards! Vulnerabilities are proliferating in SonicWall devices and software this year, putting the vendor’s customers at risk of intrusion via secure access gateways and firewalls. The year started off on a sour note for the California-based company when it released security advisories for nine vulnerabilities on Jan. 7. The total number of vulnerabilities publicly disclosed by the company so far in 2025 has grown to 20. SonicWall vulnerabilities are...
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1 week ago |
cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko
Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of sensitive stolen data, some of the company’s customers are now receiving extortion demands. A threat actor, who may or not be the same criminal group behind the attack, has contacted four school district customers of PowerSchool in the past few days, CyberScoop has learned, threatening to leak data if they don’t pay.
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1 week ago |
cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko
CrowdStrike is cutting 5% of its workforce, about 500 positions, telling its staff that it’s shifting resources and realigning its operating model for growth in new market segments, according to a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is slashing headcount following a year of significant growth in a strong market. CrowdStrike’s revenue jumped 29% year-over-year to $3.95 billion in fiscal year 2025, which ended Jan. 31.
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1 week ago |
cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko
Google addressed 47 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices in its May security update, including an actively exploited software defect that was first disclosed in March.
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