FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
December 10 2025The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams:
Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they have kidnapped their loved one and demand...
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Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
July 3 2025Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone...
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FBI Deletes PlugX Malware from Thousands of Computers
January 16 2025According to a DOJ press release, the FBI was able to delete the Chinese-used PlugX malware from “approximately 4,258 U.S.-based computers and networks.”
To retrieve information from and...
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Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
November 12 2024I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the...
Read moreFBI Seizes BreachForums Website
May 17 2024The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data.
If law enforcement has gained access to the hacking forum’s backend data, as...
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Surveillance through Push Notifications
March 6 2024The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and...
Read moreA Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group
October 1 2023Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang's internal operations. Today, we'll take...
Read moreFBI Hacker Dropped Stolen Airbus Data on 9/11
September 14 2023In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle "USDoD" had infiltrated the FBI's vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information...
Read moreU.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections
August 30 2023The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law...
Read moreKarma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop
August 18 2023You've probably never heard of "16Shop," but there's a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered...
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