Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. Th...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/thread-hijacking-phishes-that-prey-on-your-curiosity/
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/
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...
It's not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/the-not-so-true-people-search-network-from-china/
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation...
Apple and Microsoft recently released software updates to fix dozens of security holes in their operating systems. Microsoft today patched at least 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows OS. Meanwhile...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/patch-tuesday-march-2024-edition/
Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transac...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/incognito-darknet-market-mass-extorts-buyers-sellers/
If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But how much do we know about Radaris? Publicly...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/a-close-up-look-at-the-consumer-data-broker-radaris/
There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. "ALPHV") as the company struggles to ...
The ransomware group LockBit told officials with Fulton County, Ga. they could expect to see their internal documents published online this morning unless the county paid a ransom demand. Instead...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/fulton-county-security-experts-call-lockbits-bluff/