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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.

Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week lev...

Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its se...

E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for ...

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

A Canadian man who says he's been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e...

Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building ...

BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrat...

Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself t...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than five dozen security holes in i...

Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius K...

Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit

Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication an...

NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13...

A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison ...

Don’t Let Zombie Zoom Links Drag You Down

Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web ...

Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targetin...

Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Se...

It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to...

Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from peopl...

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direc...