Category: Krebson
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine…
For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators…
The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense,…
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48…
If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on…
A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of…
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing…
Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into…
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in…
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep,…
It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too)….