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A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion groupShinyHuntershas been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle “Rey,” was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by the global aerospace companyBoeing, which manufactures the fleet of planes used by the employer of Rey’s fat

A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud providerSnowflake.Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers.A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. “Judische” and “Waifu,” dated Oct 21, 2024, 9 days before Mouck

Microsofttoday released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in itsWindowsoperating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.Image: Shutterstock, Mallika Home Studio.August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse its recording breaking release ofmore than 570 security updates last month, but it is double June’s then-record batch ofnearly 200

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service calledDecryptAdsscrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that a