How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a …
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Using Fake Reviews to Find Dangerous Extensions
Fake, positive reviews have infiltrated nearly every corner of life online these days, confusing consumers while offering an unwelcome …
WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service that sold access …
Who’s Behind the “Reopen” Domain Surge?
The past few weeks have seen a large number of new domain registrations beginning with the word “reopen” and ending with U.S. city or …
Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?
In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S. political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web …
The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity reported to health insurance provider Blue Shield of California that its Web site was flagged by multiple …
French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?
A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been …
The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. …
Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster
For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “Yalishanda,” “Downlow” and “Stas_vl” has run one of the most …
Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?
The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware …
Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android
Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on …
Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?
The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same …
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at …
Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author
Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer responsible for authoring and selling “Orcus RAT,” a …