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…
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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…
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers…
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree – Krebs on Security
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website…
Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages – Krebs on Security
At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and…
Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions – Krebs on Security
In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or…