Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
December 20 2022Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then "swatting" them -- falsely reporting a violent incident...
Read moreSix Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites
December 15 2022The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to...
Read moreJudge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google
December 6 2022In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet's largest and oldest botnets. The defendants,...
Read moreDisneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All
November 17 2022A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard...
Read moreTop Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva
November 15 2022Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses in the United States...
Read moreHacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service
November 3 2022A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but...
Read moreA 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a "malware-as-a-service" offering that helped paying customers...
Read moreA 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a "malware-as-a-service" offering that helped paying customers...
Read moreFake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
September 29 2022Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s...
Read moreAccused Russian RSOCKS Botmaster Arrested, Requests Extradition to U.S.
September 23 2022A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at the request of U.S. authorities. At...
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