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Happy 12th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 12th anniversary today! Maybe “celebrate” is too indelicate a word for a year wracked by the global pandemics of C... Read more

Shutterfly Suffers Conti Ransomware Attack

Photography company Shutterfly announced that it has been suffered from a ransomware attack that had impacted some services. In a statement, the comp... Read more

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2021 Edition

Microsoft , Adobe , and Google all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed securi... Read more

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Irela... Read more

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government age... Read more

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a... Read more

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Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”

In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account cre... Read more

Panasonic Suffers Data Breach After attackers access internal network

Tech manufacturing giant Panasonic has  confirmed  that its network was accessed illegally this month during a cyberattack. Panasonic has disclosed a... Read more

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The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet... Read more

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Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer’s network, in exc... Read more

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The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How it Works, How to Fight Back

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P)... Read more

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Tech CEO Pleads to Wire Fraud in IP Address Scheme

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies... Read more

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Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fak... Read more