Category: Krebson

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS – Krebs on Security
17
Jan
2025

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS – Krebs on Security

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass,…

Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates – Krebs on Security
15
Jan
2025

Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates – Krebs on Security

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses…

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security
31
Dec
2024

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has…

Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity! – Krebs on Security
30
Dec
2024

Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity! – Krebs on Security

Image: Shutterstock, Dreamansions. KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it’s indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog…

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm – Krebs on Security
19
Dec
2024

Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm – Krebs on Security

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a…

How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Security
12
Dec
2024

How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Security

A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites…

Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition – Krebs on Security
11
Dec
2024

Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition – Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that…

U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia – Krebs on Security
04
Dec
2024

U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia – Krebs on Security

In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “Wazawaka,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in…

Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz – Krebs on Security
03
Dec
2024

Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz – Krebs on Security

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a…

Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier – Krebs on Security
27
Nov
2024

Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier – Krebs on Security

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data…

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup – Krebs on Security
22
Nov
2024

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup – Krebs on Security

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking…

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach – Krebs on Security
20
Nov
2024

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach – Krebs on Security

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity…