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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.

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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

Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped pr...

3CX Breach Was a Double Supply Chain Compromise

We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain a...

Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data

A shocking number of organizations -- including banks and healthcare providers -...

Microsoft (& Apple) Patch Tuesday, April 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released software updates to plug 100 security holes in its Wind...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulner...

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from ...

Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over M...

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo ...

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony ...

Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw...

Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote ...

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Julius "Zeekill" Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a lo...

KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madis...

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming H...

Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity turns 12 years old today. That's a crazy long time for an indepe...

Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras ...

The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying the...