‘Tis the Season for the Wayward Package Phish
The holiday shopping season always means big business for phishers, who tend to find increased success this time of year with a lure about a wayward package that needs redelivery.…
The ‘Groove’ Ransomware Gang Was a Hoax
A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of “Groove,” a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite in attacking U.S. government interests online.…
Zales.com Leaked Customer Data, Just Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018
In December 2018, bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. This week,…
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology
U.S. federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid…
Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security…
How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting smarter about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. It also shows that phishers are attempting…
What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something…
FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity…
Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by…
KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from “Meris,” the same new botnet behind record-shattering attacks…
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