LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps – Krebs on Security
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television…
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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number…
Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak – Krebs on Security
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA…
Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup – Krebs on Security
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and…
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet – Krebs on Security
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy…
Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial – Krebs on Security
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the…
Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ – Krebs on Security
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts – Krebs on Security
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and…
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks – Krebs on Security
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks,…
Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak – Krebs on Security
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a…
Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada – Krebs on Security
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of…
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly…