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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Signs can say a lot. You can probably spot many top security company signs without realizing it. Convicted burglars have confessed that security signs (among other things) are effective at …
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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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Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security
by David Walker
Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananFirmware Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass …