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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.

New episode “In the Trend of VM” (#12): 8 February CVEs & Why the Darknet Matters for VM Specialists. Now with a new design and new video editing. 😉 📹 Video on YouTube and LinkedIn🗞 Post on Habr (rus)🗒 Digest on the PT website Content: 🔻 00:00 Greetings 🔻 00:23 Remote Code Execution – Windows […]

Should a VM specialist be aware of what is happening in the Darknet? Of course. At least roughly. Otherwise, he’ll fall for the “nobody’s attacking us” myth. 😏 The reality is that every organization is under attack all the time. It’s like commercial fishing with trawlers. Anything that gets caught in the nets will be […]

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.

At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk's most loyal employees. Here's a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon's cousin.

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.

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2025-0108) vulnerability. PAN-OS is the operating system used in all Palo Alto Network NGFWs. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to the PAN-OS management web interface. The attacker can then “invoke certain PHP scripts”, compromising the integrity and confidentiality of PAN-OS. 😏 🔹 The vendor bulletin was […]

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question "can hacking be treason?" prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody until he is discharged from the military.

February Linux Patch Wednesday. There are 561 vulnerabilities in total. 338 in Linux Kernel. Formally, there is one vulnerability with a sign of exploitation in the wild: RCE – 7-Zip (CVE-2025-0411). But it is about Windows MoTW and, naturally, is not exploitable on Linux. There are public exploits for 21 vulnerabilities. Among them there are […]

One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world's richest man to wrest control over their networks and data.