The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords. A screenshot [...]
Business owners worldwide have to protect their companies and clients against cybersecurity attacks, which occur every day. Unfortunately, the gap in the cybersecurity workforce totals about 4.8 million people, leaving businesses vulnerable. While the industry faces a talent shortage, some reports suggest that technically skilled people, including teenagers and [...]
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting [...]
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 [...]
Are You Settling for Less from Your IT Support? If Your Managed Service Provider Is Not Doing These 5 Things, You Deserve Better 1) Fast, Reliable Response Times Time is money and your business can't afford delays. Your IT team should jump on issues immediately — every time. 2) [...]
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, [...]
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, [...]
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and [...]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with other Security Agencies released this Joint Guidance which discusses key cybersecurity challenges and risks associated with the introduction of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) into information technology environments, as well as best practices for securing agentic AI systems. Agentic artificial intelligence [...]
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach [...]
Cybercrime has a new business model, and it runs smoother than most legitimate startups. Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) is quickly becoming one of the most dangerous tools in modern cybercrime. Instead of building scams from scratch, attackers can now subscribe to ready-made platforms that function much like Netflix or Amazon Prime. [...]
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at [...]
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