Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges
Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency…
US detains suspects behind $80 million ‘pig butchering’ scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice charged four suspects (two of them already detained) for their alleged involvement in a pig…
Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach
On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that…
French police arrests Russian suspect linked to Hive ransomware
French authorities arrested a Russian national in Paris for allegedly helping the Hive ransomware gang with laundering their victims' ransom…
New cybercrime market ‘OLVX’ gains popularity among hackers
A new cybercrime marketplace, OLVX, has emerged and is quickly gaining new customers looking to purchase tools to conduct online…
Microsoft: OAuth apps used to automate BEC and cryptomining attacks
Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy…
Kelvin Security hacking group leader arrested in Spain
The Spanish police have arrested one of the alleged leaders of the 'Kelvin Security' hacking group, which is believed to…
Don’t be fooled — Biden’s new fentanyl Strike Force is a TRAP
The government doesn’t care about the border as much as it cares about crypto. The Treasury Department has launched a…
Russian pleads guilty to running crypto-exchange used by ransomware gangs
Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov pleaded guilty to operating the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange that helped ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals launder…
Multiple NFT collections at risk by flaw in open-source library
A vulnerability in an open-source library that is common across the Web3 space impacts the security of pre-built smart contracts,…