The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that o...
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized c...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/meet-ika-sal-the-bulletproof-hosting-duo-from-hell/
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tamper...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/ask-fitis-the-bear-real-crooks-sign-their-malware/
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a 37-year-old Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world's most notorious spam kingpins, has been extradited to the United States to face federal hacking...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/alleged-spam-kingpin-severa-extradited-to-us/
Authorities in Spain have arrested a Russian computer programmer thought to be one of the world's most notorious spam kingpins. Spanish police arrested Pyotr Levashov under an international warra...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/04/alleged-spam-king-pyotr-levashov-arrested/
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/
Over the past 18 months, I've published a series of posts that provide clues about the possible real-life identities of the men responsible for building some of the largest and most disruptive sp...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/12/a-closer-look-at-two-bigtime-botmasters/
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/
In February, I published the results of an investigation into the identity of the man behind the once-infamous Srizbi spam botnet. Today's post looks at the individual(s) likely involved in runni...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/harvesting-data-on-the-xarvester-botmaster/