Operation Heart Blocker: Disruption action deals blow to criminal cyber network HeartSender

During a disruption action on January 29, 2025, HeartSender servers and domains were seized by various police services. HeartSender is the name of a group of phishing software makers. The Cybercrime Team of the East Brabant police unit started an inves… Continue reading Operation Heart Blocker: Disruption action deals blow to criminal cyber network HeartSender

Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it’s indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news, but happily many of 2024’s most engrossing security stories were about bad things happening to bad guys. It’s also an occasion to note that despite my publishing fewer stories than ever this past year, we somehow managed to attract near record levels of readership (thank you!). Continue reading Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day seeing exploitation involves CVE-2024-49138, a security weakness in the Windows Common… Read More » Continue reading Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition

Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators

Three Administrators Charged and Cryptocurrency Seized The Justice Department today announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, an illicit website and marketplace dedicated to selling stolen credit cards and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud,… Continue reading Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators

Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election

Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DD… Continue reading Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

Catherine Belton reports: A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation… Continue reading American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show