When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches – Krebs on Security
Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and…
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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies? – Krebs on Security
A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers…
New Protections for Food Benefits Stolen by Skimmers – Krebs on Security
Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows…
U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group – Krebs on Security
Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia…
KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley…
Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France – Krebs on Security
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online,…
Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days – Krebs on Security
On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access…
Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty – Krebs on Security
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to…
New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts – Krebs on Security
T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing…
Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again. – Krebs on Security
Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of…