Spamhaus: Prospero, a notorious provider of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” hosting for cybercriminals, is routing its operations through Kaspersky Lab's networks
One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing … Bluesky: @abuse-ch . Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Bluesky: @abuse-ch ...
Many ransomware strains like DarkSide's will not install on Windows PCs with specific virtual keyboards enabled, like Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built …
Filing: NY charges First American Financial over massive 2019 data breach caused by a software update flaw, in the first enforcement of 2017 cybersecurity rules
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp …
Microsoft buys corp.com, a domain that receives sensitive info from misconfigured Windows PCs, for an undisclosed sum to keep it out of the hands of bad actors
In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million.
Facebook admits it inadvertently stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M passwords
in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.” http://krebsonsecurity.com/... Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : This just knocked $FB shares a bit http://twitter.com/...
Secret Service warns via internal alert that Informed Delivery, USPS's service to view scans of incoming mail, is being used to commit identity theft and fraud
A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) …
Researchers calculate that Mirai botnet DDoS attack on KrebsOnSecurity, which lasted 77 hours and used 24,000 unsecured IoT devices, cost device owners ~$324K
The attack levied against the domain using insecure IoT devices cost their owners dearly in power and bandwidth.
Google security engineer recounts how the company brought KrebsOnSecurity into Project Shield and defended the site against massive DDoS attacks
Behind the scenes defending KrebsOnSecurity against record-setting DDoS attacks. — OAKLAND, Calif.—In September, KrebsOnSecurity … Tweets: @mariachong , @jesperjurcenoks , and @brianweeden Tweets: M...
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user
The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …