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Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced...
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Why CISA Is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at...
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Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But...
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'The Manipulaters' Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web...
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Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to...
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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its...
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The Not-So-True People-Search Network from China
It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day...
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CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their...
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Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers
Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting...
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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris
If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal...
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BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Health
There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment...
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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware
Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link...
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New Leak Shows Business Side of China's Apt Menace
A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity...
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Feds seized control of LockBit ransomware group
U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive...
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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails
The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in...
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Juniper Support Portal Exposed Customer Device Info
Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially...
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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud
A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is...
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E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop
The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos...
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Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity
KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself this post wouldn’t devolve into...