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…
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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…
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody – Krebs on Security
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested…
Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M – Krebs on Security
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and…
Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk – Krebs on Security
Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messages that come from…
Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least two vulnerabilities that are already…