Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones – Krebs on Security
Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for two…
Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services – Krebs on Security
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service…
$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia – Krebs on Security
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check,…
Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data – Krebs on Security
A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States…
Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data – Krebs on Security
A shocking number of organizations — including banks and healthcare providers — are leaking private and sensitive information from their public Salesforce Community websites, KrebsOnSecurity…
3CX Breach Was a Double Supply Chain Compromise – Krebs on Security
We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX. The lengthy, complex intrusion has all the makings…
Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’ – Krebs on Security
For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “Faceless” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day,…
Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News? – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
Microsoft (& Apple) Patch Tuesday, April 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released software updates to plug 100 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day vulnerability that is already…
FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers – Krebs on Security
Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected…
A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding? – Krebs on Security
John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison…