‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran – Krebs on Security
A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured…
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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks – Krebs on Security
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three…
Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker – Krebs on Security
A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing “zero-day”…
How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts – Krebs on Security
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are…
Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? – Krebs on Security
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive…
‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA – Krebs on Security
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse…
Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P – Krebs on Security
For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted…
Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six…
Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? – Krebs on Security
The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d…
Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters – Krebs on Security
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms:…
Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks – Krebs on Security
A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…