Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025...

Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days. Happily, comeuppance was a strong theme...

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners ofStark Industries Solutions Ltd. , a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But ne...

The Stark Truth Behind the Resurgence of Russia’s Fin7

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed "Fin7," known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. authorities. But experts say Fin7 has roared back to life in 2024 -- setting up thousands o...

Citect SCADA ODBC Service Overflow

Added: 03/10/2009 CVE: CVE-2008-2639 BID: 29634 OSVDB: 46105 Background The CitectSCADA and CitectFacilities applications include ODBC server capabilities to provide remote SQL access to a relational database. The ODBC Server component listens on port 20222/tcp by default. Problem A buffer overfl...