On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/12/ten-years-later-new-clues-in-the-target-breach/
Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book "Spam Nation," was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian auth...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/spam-nation-villain-vrublevsky-charged-with-fraud/
For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as "Yalishanda," "Downlow" and "Stas_vl" has run one of the most popular "bulletproof" Web hosting services catering to a vast array...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/meet-the-worlds-biggest-bulletproof-hoster/
A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. T...
A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, was that it dealt primarily with petty crooks involved in petty crimes, while ignoring mo...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/a-shakeup-in-russias-top-cybercrime-unit/
An Estonian man who ran an organized cybercrime ring that infected more than 4 million PCs in over 100 countries with moneymaking malware has pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud and computer...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/cybercrime-kingpin-pleads-guilty/
It's been a while since a new category debuted on this blog, and it occurred to me that I didn't have a catch-all designation for random ne'er-do-well news. Alas, the inaugural entry for Ne'er-Do...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/neer-do-well-news-volume-i/
Pavel Vrublevsky, the owner of Russian payments firm ChronoPay and the subject of an upcoming book by this author, was sentenced to two-and-half years in a Russian penal colony this week after ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/pavel-vrublevsky-sentenced-to-2-5-years/
Pavel Vrublevsky, the owner of Russian payments firm ChronoPay and the subject of an upcoming book by this author, was arrested today in Moscow for witness intimidation in his ongoing trial for a...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/06/vrublevsky-arrested-for-witness-intimidation/
The co-founder and owner of ChronoPay, one of Russia's largest e-payment providers, is suing Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, alleging that the latter published defamatory blog posts about hi...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/12/vrublevsky-sues-kaspersky/