Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads
November 10 2020It's bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has...
Read moreOn Monday, Oct. 27, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt...
Read moreThe Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
October 22 2020Some of the world's largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. But according...
Read moreQAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
October 19 2020A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon on Sunday evening was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun -- a controversial online image...
Read moreMicrosoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet
October 12 2020Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is...
Read moreAttacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet
October 2 2020Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs...
Read moreSendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts
August 28 2020Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email...
Read moreFBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat
August 21 2020The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing...
Read moreVoice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs
August 19 2020The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers' networks. But...
Read moreA group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on...
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