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Tag Archives: Brian Krebs
Instagram CEO’s homes were targetted by SWATters
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s houses were surrounded by SWAT teams after hoax phone calls claimed hostages were being held there.
Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site
They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.
Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.
2m credit cards ripped off from restaurant chain, sold on the dark web
PoS malware affected some Buca di Beppo, Earl of Sandwich, Planet Hollywood, Chicken Guy!, Mixology and Tequila Taqueria locations.
Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.
Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year
A security researcher claims the US Postal Service ignored a security flaw affecting 60 million users, until it was contacted by a journalist.
Teen hacker admits to SWATting schools, airline flight
The teenager made bomb threats to schools, and to a flight between the UK and San Francisco while it was in mid-air.
Mobile spyware maker mSpy leaks millions of records – AGAIN
The irony: Parents put it on kids’ phones to protect them, but this breach exposed sensitive data including Whatsapp and Facebook messages.
Google hasn’t suffered an employee phishing compromise in over a year
Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made to security writer Brian Krebs.