Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 67 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. Redmond warns that one of the flaws…
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Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus – Krebs on Security
Image: Mark Rademaker, via Shutterstock. Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since…
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams – Krebs on Security
Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands…
Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service – Krebs on Security
Authorities in Pakistan have arrested 21 individuals accused of operating “Heartsender,” a once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operated for more than a…
DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs – Krebs on Security
The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been…
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second…
Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach – Krebs on Security
In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a…
Patch Tuesday, May 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are already seeing…
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to…
Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S. – Krebs on Security
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United…
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower – Krebs on Security
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of…
DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data – Krebs on Security
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive…