U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive…
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Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity! – Krebs on Security
Image: Shutterstock, Dreamansions. KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it’s indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news,…
Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm – Krebs on Security
Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability…
How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks – Krebs on Security
A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at…
Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in…
U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia – Krebs on Security
In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “Wazawaka,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and operation of…
Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz – Krebs on Security
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic…
Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier – Krebs on Security
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a…
Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup – Krebs on Security
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of…
Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach – Krebs on Security
The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides…
An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker – Krebs on Security
In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator, the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November’s patch batch includes fixes for…