For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare …
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now …
Safety & Security
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
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 …
Safety & Security
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 …
“We’re hiring selectively for AI and machine learning expertise, but we’re also investing in our existing talent — training them to understand how AI works, how to validate models, and …
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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 …