BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption – Krebs on Security
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 is upon us, with Microsoft Corp. today releasing fixes for a relatively small number of security holes in its…
ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups – Krebs on Security
More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry…
Breach Affected All Customer Support Users – Krebs on Security
When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. 20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta…
ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data – Krebs on Security
One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the…
Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial – Krebs on Security
Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than five dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including three “zero day” vulnerabilities…
It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian – Krebs on Security
In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after…
Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service? – Krebs on Security
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances…
Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed – Krebs on Security
The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop. One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing…
.US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service – Krebs on Security
The top-level domain for the United States — .US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that…
NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison – Krebs on Security
A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes…