A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts – Krebs on Security
Image: Shutterstock. Greg Meland. President Trump last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the…
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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security
The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert…
Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS – Krebs on Security
Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines…
Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates – Krebs on Security
Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under active…
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…
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…