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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.

FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Cust...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nea...

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in C...

The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security S...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark...

Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 5...

Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it i...

Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention "twitter....

April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently -- like total solar eclipse rare...

Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing me...

The Manipulaters improve phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

9 years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called '...

Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email acco...

Recent MFA Bombing Attacks Targeting Apple Users

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing a...

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People...

The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it i...

The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

It's not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseud...

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens o...

The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for...

Patch Tuesday, March 2024 Edition

Apple and Microsoft recently released software updates to fix dozens of security...

Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaa...

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