Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of …
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Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The …
Safety & Security
Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least two vulnerabilities that are already being actively exploited. October’s Patch …
Safety & Security
Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messages that come from hundreds of Zendesk corporate customers …
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, …
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ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data …
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18 Popular Code Packages Hacked, Rigged to Steal Crypto – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved in …
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Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting …
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this …
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Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, …