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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The Department of Justice building is seen in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Jordanian national pleads guilty after unknowingly selling FBI agent access to 50 company networks

Cybercrime

Digital generated image of multicolored particles forming eye shape against black background. (Getty Images)

Kimwolf botnet’s swift rise to 2M infected devices agitates security researchers

Threats

Microsoft seized the infrastructure used to run RedVDS, a cybercrime marketplace that facilitated thousands of attacks globally. (Courtesy of Microsoft)

Microsoft seizes RedVDS infrastructure, disrupts fast-growing cybercrime marketplace

Cybersecurity

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day

Threats

A coordinated law enforcement operation that fanned out to Seville, Madrid, Malaga and Barcelona significantly disrupted the group’s activities, according to Europol. (Courtesy of Europol)

Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities

Cybercrime

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Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell

Threats

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Researchers rush to warn defenders of max-severity defect in n8n

Threats

Abstract binary code rippling on waving ribbons. — Abstract binary code rippling on waving ribbons. (Getty Images)

MongoBleed defect swirls, stamping out hope of year-end respite

Cybersecurity

Justice Department headquarters at night — Traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue streaks by the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building at night with the US Capitol in the background on Jan. 24, 2025, in Washington. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Leader of 764 offshoot pleads guilty, faces up to 60 years in jail

Threats