Independent investigative journalist. Covers cybercrime, security, privacy. Author of 'Spam Nation,' a NYT bestseller. Former Washington Post reporter, '95-'09. Signal: briankrebs.07 Twitter: @briankrebs Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bkrebs/
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Joined: 2022-11-05
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2024-11-25 briankrebs ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@njion Oh for sure. I hear the trick to be a good pirate is to never take prisoners. Otherwise, once word leaks out that a pirate has gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's […]
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No joke: Somehow for the first few hours this morning, I thought it was Sunday (blame low coffeine levels). My wife just broke the news that I'm living a day in the future. I just got a whole […]
Spam/new account wave? Lots of this in my timeline today.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: StompyRobot
@StompyRobot No the problem in this case is the opposite: Everyone is looking for Russian or NK hackers, and ignoring these guys.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ RE: Elephant
@Elephant It happened because they didn't secure it very well.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ RE: briankrebs
The other thing that might make a dent in this problem is more civil prosecutions by bitcoin theft victims against the parents of kids involved in these crypto heists. The big thing now is […]
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 2💬 ┃ RE: briankrebs
It's not even that uncommon for cybercrooks to get let out of jail and literally go dig up a trezor hardware wallet and retrieve millions of stolen money.
I don't think we've come to terms […]
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@evacide I know you're right. it's so fscking depressing.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: sig_ug
@sig_ug how about bragging about stealing it, and then leaking info about themselves that identifies them IRL?
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 3🔗 13💬 ┃ RE: briankrebs
True story: The 17-y/o kid arrested in Florida for taking part in the 2020 Twitter hack that caused a ton of celebrity accounts to tweet bitcoin scams, got the court to force the secret service […]
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 6💬 ┃ RE: briankrebs
This all came to me as I was pondering why the hell I keep having to trip over the same jerks time and again. I'm like, wait, this yo-yo is still bouncing around? Now they're multi, multi […]
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: MagentaRocks
@MagentaRocks You are 100 percent right. If I were a scammer, I would scrupulously avoid sending anything through the US Mail.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 4💬 ┃ RE: briankrebs
BTW, the IRS has criminal enforcement authority, and can and does put people in jail for ignoring their investigations.
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ 1🔗 17💬
One of the problems with prosecuting cybercriminals is that building cases and investigations takes time, often years. In the meanwhile, the bad guys are ransoming this and extorting that and […]
Has anyone running their own blog or news site added their site to Apple News? If so, what has been your experience?
developer.apple.com/documentat…
2024-11-23 briankrebs ┃ RE: bobkmertz
@bobkmertz I agree. I bet a lot of people would pay a subscription if they thought it would be like an Eagle Pass that gets you into all the parks for the year. I seem to recall reading about a […]
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2024-11-22 MostlyHarmless ┃ 🔄 briankrebs ┃ 1🔗 10💬
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2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1👤 2💬 ┃ RE: ?
@btschumy When I click that share button in apple news it gives me an apple news link.
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1🔗 ┃ RE: briankrebs
LOL. Who knew LI would bring the comedy I needed today?
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: vbarreirojr
@vbarreirojr Wow. I think you won on the first try!
2024-11-22 vbarreirojr ┃ 🔄 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: briankrebs
@briankrebs sounds like a news-ance to me... been there, done that. :(
Is there a word for the digital squirreling involved in reading something in Apple News and trying to figure out the original URL by searching the headline online and then cutting and pasting […]
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1🔗 11💬
Okay, so we may need to adjust our threat models slightly?
"The month-and-a-half long investigation revealed that GruesomeLarch was able to ultimately breach Organization A’s network by […]
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ RE: steinbrecher
@steinbrecher Mine never went away. We have a huge number of readers who consume our content this way now exclusively. The sucky part is the folks who read through RSS don't often visit the […]
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: michaeltomasek
@michaeltomasek Did I mention it's a Linux VM?
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@aral Cotton is also one of the lawmakers holding up movement on a bipartisan federal journalist shield law that the House already passed.
2024-11-22 tante ┃ 🔄 briankrebs ┃ 25💬
Since I saw a report about 1984 (because of a new audio version done for motherfucking Audible!) with the same talking points, here's the usual correction:
1984 is not a book about total […]
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ edited ┃ 59💬
I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives.
E.g, […]
2024-11-22 briankrebs ┃ 1🔗 11💬
Tired: Using vast sums of hardware, energy to mine shitcoins.
Wired: Using technology that creates shitcoins to power AI.
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2024-11-21 briankrebs ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@alkoclick Mmm. Maybe more like irrationally exuberant?
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