#Krebs on Security U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the gro August 29, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multi August 25, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders. In large metropolitan areas, tourists are often easy to spot because they’re far more inclined than locals to gaze upward at the surrounding skyscrape August 22, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and t August 17, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man John Clifton Davies , a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investmen August 14, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Edition Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including mul August 08, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’ WormGPT , a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohi August 08, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working August 04, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security How Malicious Android Apps Slip Into Disguise Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android platform that lets them sneak malicious code into mobile apps a August 03, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov , the former founder and CEO of one of Russia July 26, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks July 25, 2023 Share
#Krebs on Security Few Fortune 100 Firms List Security Pros in Their Executive Ranks Many things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn’t shift July 21, 2023 Share