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Matt Kapko

Matt Kapko is a reporter at CyberScoop, covering cybercrime, software defects and the root causes of cyberattacks. The lifelong Californian has more than 25 years of experience in journalism. Drop Matt an email at matt.kapko@cyberscoop.com.

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Fortinet office in Burnaby, BC, Canada, July 7, 2023. (Getty Images)

Fortinet’s delayed alert on actively exploited defect put defenders at a disadvantage

Threats

The North Korean flag files over the North Korean embassy in Beijing, 18 July 2007. (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ lauds series of gains against North Korean IT worker scheme, crypto thefts

Financial

The headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on August 16, 2022, in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

FBI calls Akira ‘top five’ ransomware variant out of 130 targeting US businesses

Government

The Washington Post building in Washington. (Andrej Sokolow/Getty Images)

Washington Post confirms data on nearly 10,000 people stolen from its Oracle environment

Ransomware

Binary code displayed on a screen reflected in glasses. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Amazon pins Cisco, Citrix zero-day attacks to APT group

Threats

An exterior view of the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters, July 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Maryland man faces federal charges for crimes allegedly linked to 764

Cybersecurity

(Photo by John Smith/VIEWpress/Getty Images)

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day

Technology

A figure walking with a glowing trail of binary code emanating from a case, symbolizing stolen data. (Getty Images Plus)

Hitachi subsidiary GlobalLogic impacted by Clop’s attack spree on Oracle customers

Ransomware

F5 Headquarters in Seattle, Washington. (Courtesy of F5)

What’s left to worry (and not worry) about in the F5 breach aftermath

Cybersecurity