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Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, authoring more than 1,300 blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post newspaper, including eight front-page stories in the dead-tree edition and a Post Magazine cover piece on botnet operators. In 2014, he was profiled in The New York Times, Business Week, NPR’s Terry Gross, and by Poynter.org. More recently, he was invited to an “Ask Me Anything” discussion on Reddit about investigative reporting.

Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create W...

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to ...

Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has b...

Global Microsoft Meltdown Tied to Bad Crowdstrike Update

A faulty software update from cybersecurity vendor Crowdstrike crippled countles...

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace...

At least a dozen organizations with domain names at domain registrar Squarespace...

The Stark Truth Behind the Resurgence of Russia’s Fin7

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed "Fin7," known for phishing and malware ...

Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Cus...

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and tex...

The Not-So-Secret Network Access Broker x999xx

Most accomplished cybercriminals go out of their way to separate their real name...

KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over...

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data bro...

Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is alleged...

Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security vulnerabilities in...

Operation Endgame Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operati...

Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chine...

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious ne...

Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took step...

Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows c...

How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and ch...