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Yesterday, KrebsOnSecurity heard from one of its readers whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker’s infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime ring that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries.

A reader who works in the transportation industry sent a tip about a recent successful phishing campaign that t

On 8 March 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites.  The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its incepti

If you have ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you have received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services.   These misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless services they never ordered, don’t need, and probably will never receive. Below, Krebs takes a look at the most recent details of this scam, DomainNetworks, and some clues about who may be behind it.

The DomainNetworks mailer may reference a d