Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man – Krebs on Security
John Clifton Davies, a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including multiple zero-day vulnerabilities…
Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’ – Krebs on Security
WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on…
Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life – Krebs on Security
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days.…
How Malicious Android Apps Slip Into Disguise – Krebs on Security
Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android platform that lets them sneak malicious code into mobile apps and…
Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years – Krebs on Security
The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s…
Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? – Krebs on Security
Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying…
Few Fortune 100 Firms List Security Pros in Their Executive Ranks – Krebs on Security
Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list…
Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that…
Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014 – Krebs on Security
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO…
Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam? – Krebs on Security
If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be…
Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks – Krebs on Security
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old…