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Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009, authoring more than 1,300 blog posts for the Security Fix blog, as well as hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post newspaper, including eight front-page stories in the dead-tree edition and a Post Magazine cover piece on botnet operators. In 2014, he was profiled in The New York Times, Business Week, NPR’s Terry Gross, and by Poynter.org. More recently, he was invited to an “Ask Me Anything” discussion on Reddit about investigative reporting.

The Not-So-Secret Network Access Broker x999xx

Most accomplished cybercriminals go out of their way to separate their real name...

KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over...

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data bro...

Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is alleged...

Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security vulnerabilities in...

Operation Endgame Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operati...

Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chine...

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious ne...

Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took step...

Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows c...

How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and ch...

U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware ...

The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 3...

Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to pre...

Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Y...

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today a...

FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Cust...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nea...

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in C...

The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security S...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark...