Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
September 17 2021A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that...
Read more“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm
September 6 2021In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled "The Manipulaters," the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range...
Read more15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark
September 1 2021Over the past 15 years, a cybercrime anonymity service known as VIP72 has enabled countless fraudsters to mask their true location online by routing their traffic through millions of...
Read moreMan Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
August 25 2021In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says he's confident he has located two...
Read morePhishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves
August 9 2021I was preparing to knock off work on a recent Friday evening when a curious and annoying email came in via the contact form on this site: “Hello I go...
Read morePlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk
July 26 2021One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. When the Justice Department...
Read moreA 18-year-old Tennessee man who helped set in motion a fraudulent distress call to police that lead to the death of a 60-year-old grandfather in 2020 was sentenced to...
Read moreSpam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served
July 20 2021A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov, a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the...
Read moreWe Infiltrated a Counterfeit Check Ring! Now What?
June 30 2021Imagine waking up each morning knowing the identities of thousands of people who are about to be mugged for thousands of dollars each. You know exactly when and where...
Read moreUkrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware
June 16 2021Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to have been part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion...
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