Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com! – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this…
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Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content – Krebs on Security
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025…
How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill – Krebs on Security
A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious connections to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose…
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers – Krebs on Security
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in…
Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ – Krebs on Security
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens…
Mozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep – Krebs on Security
In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that…
The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap – Krebs on Security
An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day…
Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad – Krebs on Security
Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of…
Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban – Krebs on Security
The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently…
Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List – Krebs on Security
For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the…