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…
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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…
Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports – Krebs on Security
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian…
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on…