Matt Kapko

Matt Kapko is a reporter at CyberScoop. His beat includes cybercrime, ransomware, software defects and vulnerability (mis)management. The lifelong Californian started his journalism career in 2001 with previous stops at Cybersecurity Dive, CIO, SDxCentral and RCR Wireless News. Matt has a degree in journalism and history from Humboldt State University.

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SonicWall headquarters — SonicWall’s headquarters in Milpitas, California. (Getty Images)

SonicWall firewalls hit by active mass exploitation of suspected zero-day

Ransomware

Google office — A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to it office at St. John’s Terminal on March 11, 2025, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Google addresses six vulnerabilities in August’s Android security update

Technology

BlackSuit site seizure notice — Seizure notice displayed on BlackSuit’s extortion site. (State Criminal Police Office Lower Saxony, Germany)

Details emerge on BlackSuit ransomware takedown

Cybersecurity

The money earned by remote North Korean IT workers is funding the North Korean weapons programs. (Getty Images)

CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year

Threats

Palo Alto Networks headquarters in Silicon Valley; Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cyber security company. (Getty Images)

Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds

Threats

Anton Petrus, via Getty Images

Russia-affiliated Secret Blizzard conducting ongoing espionage against embassies in Moscow

Threats

Workers enter a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025, in Mountain View, California. — Workers enter a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025, in Mountain View, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Project Zero disclosure policy change puts vendors on early notice

Cybersecurity

IBM offices in New York City — IBM offices on Madison Avenue on March 11, 2014, in New York City. (Ben Hider/Getty Images)

Research shows data breach costs have reached an all-time high

Threats

FBI headquarters — The FBI headquarters on November 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

FBI alerts tie together threats of cybercrime, physical violence from The Com

Threats