How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?
Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich…
Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention "twitter.com" to redirect to "x.com" instead. But over the past…
Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites
A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service Privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of…
‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called "The Manipulaters," a sprawling web hosting network of phishing…
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost…
A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris
If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they…
From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU
In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. The leaked user database shows one of the forum's founders…
Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?
Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused…
Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky
Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies…
E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop
The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of…