Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser —...
Web Fraud 2.0
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting...
Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a...
Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad
Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that...
Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List
For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in...
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies
Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support...
Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens...
Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk
Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with...
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices...
Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages
At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that...
Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with...
Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with...
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of...
Chinese SMS Fraud Network Shifts Focus to Financial Institutions
Fraudsters based in China who specialize in SMS scams are experiencing remarkable success converting stolen payment card information into digital...
Converting Phished Information into Apple & Google Wallets
The illicit activity known as carding, which involves the theft, sale, and use of stolen payment card data, has historically...
