Krebs on Security – In-depth security news and investigation
6 days ago · Step 2 asks the user to press the “CTRL” key and the letter “V” at the same time, which pastes malicious code from the site’s virtual clipboard. Step 3 — pressing the “Enter” key ...
“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards – Krebs on Security
Oct 15, 2019 · BriansClub sold roughly 9.1 million stolen credit cards, earning the site $126 million in sales. Allison Nixon, the company’s director of security research, said the data suggests that between ...
Password Do’s and Don’ts – Krebs on Security
Take a moment to review these, and consider strengthening some of your passwords if they fall short. -Create unique passwords that that use a combination of words, numbers, symbols, and both upper ...
The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots
Puzzled September 29, 2021. The article is missing an explanation that would help me (tech-savvy but not a professional) understand how it works. The article says, “The call would prompt the ...
What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack - Krebs on Security
Aug 2, 2019 · On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One.Since then, many have speculated the breach was ...
Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach
Dec 14, 2023 · Ten years later, KrebsOnSecurity has uncovered new clues about the real-life identity of Rescator. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Chang’s. Shortly ...
A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach
Jul 27, 2022 · The Impact Team said ALM had one month to take Ashley Madison offline, along with a sister property called Established Men. The hackers promised that if a month passed and the company did not ...
Data Breaches - Krebs on Security
August 19, 2024. 127 Comments. New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social ...
National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords
Aug 19, 2024 · KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely ...
NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data
Aug 15, 2024 · Nationalpublicdata.com publicly acknowledged a breach in a statement on Aug. 12, saying “there appears to have been a data security incident that may have involved some of your personal ...