Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home
An old but persistent email scam known as "sextortion" has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware…
Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty
Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency, a once popular online service that helped attackers…
Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty
Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency, a once popular online service that helped attackers…
When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing
Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a…
New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’
Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service…
Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide
The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft…
National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords
New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds…
NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data
A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information…
Six 0-Days Lead Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Push
Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 90 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including a whopping six…
Cybercrime Rapper Sues Bank over Fraud Investigation
In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. That story…