Threat actor activity and indicators
For 16 years KrebsOnSecurity has pulled back the curtain on the criminal plumbing—bulletproof hosts, access brokers and resilient intermediaries—showing why targeting those enablers, not just the flashy attacks, is the real path to stopping cybercrime.
Think essay mills are just a campus nuisance? A new investigation reveals a $25M ad‑driven cheating network that used Google search ads to funnel students to essay services — and whose money trail ties to a Kremlin‑connected oligarch and a Russian university involved in attack drone development, turning academic dishonesty into a national security worry.
Get the inside scoop on a $25M essay mill tying drones to diplomas—our exclusive exposé reveals how the scheme works and why it matters for students and educators alike.
Meet Rey—the pseudonymous face of Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—who unexpectedly lifted his veil after KrebsOnSecurity traced him to his father and secured an interview. That admission could shatter the groups anonymity and change the game for investigators, rivals and recruits.
AI-enabled threats are already reshaping the attack landscape—making reconnaissance, social engineering and vulnerability hunting faster and cheaper. Bitdefender’s data-driven webinar cuts through the headlines to show boards and C‑suites which risks merit action and which are just noise.
INTERPOLs month‑long Operation Sentinel arrested 574 suspects across 19 African countries and recovered roughly $3 million — a major strike against business email compromise and digital extortion, but a reminder that arrests must be paired with legal, financial and technical reforms to truly stop these agile cyber gangs.
State-sponsored cyber attacks are escalating — learn how nation-backed hackers target organizations and practical steps you can take to stay one step ahead.
As Bloody Wolf expands across Central Asia, attackers are repurposing trusted remote‑administration tools to slip quietly into government networks and exfiltrate sensitive data. That shift from noisy attacks to stealthy intelligence gathering leaves smaller states scrambling to detect and respond.
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Rewiring Democracy asks: as AI rewrites our political infrastructure, who will teach the machines to learn — and safeguard — our democratic values? This urgent, clear-eyed book maps the reforms we need before algorithms reshape civic life.
Five people in the U.S. pleaded guilty this year to helping North Korean hackers secure remote IT jobs with American companies — a wake-up call that remote hiring can be manipulated to mask origins, launder pay, and funnel talent and cash back to Pyongyang.
Google warns Europe is likely to face a surge of cyber-physical attacks in 2026 — digital intrusions paired with disinformation that could disrupt power, transport and industry. With legacy control systems, rushed digitization and weak third-party security widening the attack surface, now’s the time to shore up defenses.
Security leaders face an urgent choice: overhaul defenses now or accept a rising tide of risk. Threat evolution has accelerated — commodified crimeware, AI-driven automation and sprawling attack surfaces mean attackers are moving faster than most organizations can respond.
Sixty percent of security leaders warn that threat actors are evolving too quickly for organizations to keep up. Commodified cybercrime, automation and an expanding attack surface are squeezing defenders’ time to detect, respond and contain — and the consequences are real.
Pakistan-linked operators are quietly slipping DeskRAT into Indian government networks to siphon secrets — a stealthy espionage campaign that makes stronger detection, logging and diplomatic response urgent.
Who’s stealing Europe’s drone blueprints — and why? Investigators now point to North Korea’s Lazarus Group and Operation DreamJob, a stealthy campaign targeting small defense firms to grab design files, accelerate domestic drone programs, and probe weaknesses in Europe’s nascent “drone wall.”
Who watches the watchers? Researchers say North Korea’s Lazarus Group—behind Operation “DreamJob”—has quietly infiltrated European drone and counter‑UAS R&D to steal designs, credentials and test data, putting the continent’s push for a layered “drone wall” at real risk of espionage, sabotage and costly setbacks.
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“If you build it, they will steal it” — North Korea’s Lazarus Group is quietly targeting EU drone engineers, lifting schematics, firmware, and supplier data to speed or sabotage adversaries’ emulation of Western platforms. The result: stolen designs and corrupted files that can derail production and readiness without a single shot fired.
Iran-Linked MuddyWater is executing a dangerous, far-reaching espionage campaign — find out how this covert groups tactics put organizations worldwide at risk and what steps you can take to defend against them.
Sixty percent of security leaders say attackers are evolving faster than defenses — a wake‑up call as crime gets industrialized into automated, turnkey attacks that prey on cloud, supply‑chain and IoT gaps. The upshot: rising costs, eroding trust and a simple choice for organizations — act now to close the gap or accept escalating risk.
China’s MSS claims the NSA used 42 cyber tools to tamper with the National Time Service Center—a charge that, if true, would turn the country’s clocks into a powerful tool for disrupting finance, telecoms and critical infrastructure. Dramatic as the allegation is, the lack of a public forensic dossier leaves the claim hanging between serious threat and strategic rhetoric.
Think politics is messy now? Bruce Schneier warns AI will rewrite the rules — promising smarter governance and wider participation while risking manipulation, bias, and concentrated power, and his new book kickstarts a crucial debate about whether these tools will strengthen or unravel democracy.
When does teenage curiosity cross into state espionage? A small Dutch town is grappling with that question after prosecutors say three teens — one allegedly linked to a Russian-affiliated hacker group — may have helped a foreign intelligence service, raising tricky legal and ethical questions about intent, culpability and how to guide tech-savvy youth.
Microsoft says its systems process over 100 trillion signals every day to spot threats — but AI-powered attackers are getting faster and craftier, so sheer volume alone won’t keep us safe. That reality means defenders must pair massive telemetry with smarter correlation, stronger identity protections and clearer policies to stay ahead.
Posters and training are a great start, but real readiness comes from proactive threat hunting that finds attackers hiding in your systems before alerts do. Pairing strong user awareness with telemetry-driven, human-led hunts shortens dwell time and turns everyday vigilance into lasting defense.