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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness At GoDaddy.comTwo of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late... |
773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years OldMy inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted... |
“Stole $24 Million But Still Can’t Keep A Friend”Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. The lurid details, made public in... |
Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time For DDoSSeldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received... |
Secret Service: Theft Rings Turn To Fuze CardsStreet thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on Fuze Cards, a smartcard technology that allows users to... |
Patch Tuesday, January 2019 EditionMicrosoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly four dozen security issues with its Windows operating systems and related software. All things considered, this first Patch Tuesday of 2019 is fairly mild, bereft as it is of any new... |
Dirt-Cheap, Legit, Windows Software: Pick TwoBuying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition. But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions... |
Apple Phone Phishing Scams Getting BetterA new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. is likely to fool quite a few people. It starts with an automated call that displays Apples logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. The scary... |
Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net Battling Christmas Eve Ransomware AttackCloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware,... |
Happy 9th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!Hard to believe weve gone another revolution around the Sun: Today marks the 9th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! This past year featured some 150 blog posts, but as usual the biggest contribution to this site came from the amazing community... |
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