Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings...
Read moreMany things have changed since 2018, such as the names of the companies in the Fortune 100 list. But one aspect of that vaunted list that hasn't shifted much...
Read more[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called...
Read more[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around...
Read moreWhen the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick...
Read moreWho’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?
July 3 2023If you've ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you've received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a...
Read moreThe United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing...
Read morePhishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
May 27 2023The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free...
Read moreCountless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that...
Read moreThe U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime...
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