Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:38:01 +0000
A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the clinic and its patients.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:12:37 +0000
On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle “Toha.” Here’s a deep dive on what’s knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:31:10 +0000
Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recent victims include multiple airlines and the U.K. retail chain Marks & Spencer.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:02 +0000
Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000
One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Read moreUnitedHealth now estimates that 190 million people were affected by the massive Change Healthcare data breach nearly a year ago.
Read moreBayMark Health Services, Inc. notified an unknown number of patients that attackers stole their personal and health information.
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Credit to Author: Michael Wood| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:35:22 +0000
Sophos X-Ops looks at the realism of this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations
Read moreLifeLabs managed to hold up a report about a ransomware incident in court for four years. It’s now been published.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:48 +0000
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.
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