KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of…
Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many…
RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10…
Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host
Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the…
Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy…
Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today,…
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”
There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It…
‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud
Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “Spam Nation,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian…
Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown
Russian authorities have arrested six men accused of operating some of the most active online bazaars for selling stolen payment card data. The crackdown — the second closure of major…
How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn
If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken…