Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service ​

Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service ​

Read More  Authorities in Pakistan have arrested 21 individuals accused of operating “Heartsender,” a once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operated for more than a decade. The main clientele for HeartSender were organized crime groups that tried to...
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs ​

Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs ​

Read More  The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version...
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS ​

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS ​

Read More  KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a...
Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach ​

Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach ​

Read More  In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale...