Fraud and donuts. The words don’t necessarily go hand and hand. But the comparison of fraud to a donut, while seemingly unusual, holds some interesting and surprisingly relevant points. A donut can be appealing and enticing with its glaze and sprinkles, while fraud can initially appear legitimate or even attractive to potential victims. And the […]
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The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe. …
While physical warfare remains a factor for nation-states in their pursuit of global dominance or sovereignty, cyber warfare operations are increasingly integrated into countries’ national security strategies. Like North Korea, who has deployed thousands of highly skilled IT workers around the world in attempts to obtain remote employment using stolen identities. However, even an adversary as […]
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Okay kids, gather around. Scharmaine Lawson Baker has a story to share about the day she stole one and a half million dollars from the U.S taxpayer. Baker, a published children’s author, was also a nurse practitioner and enrolled as a Medicare provider. She claimed to be an expert in Medicare regulations, even authoring publications […]
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The Department of Social Security Administration (SSA) knows that family is important whether that family is run by a single parent, is blended, or diverse, or is small or large. For nearly 90 years, SSA has helped families secure financial benefits, tools, and programs to help support millions throughout life’s journey. Yet benefits fluctuate based […]
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A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five victims via SIM-swapping attacks that diverted their mobile phone calls and text messages to devices controlled by Urban and his co-conspirators. …
Medicare hospice fraud is an escalating concern, targeting our vulnerable senior populations. This issue not only drains taxpayer dollars but also exploits individuals in their final stages of life, undermining the integrity of the hospice care system. The average taxpayer knows the value of this program. The average fraudster doesn’t care. Like Karpis Srapyan, who […]
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A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecurity. …
Fraudsters often operate with a remarkable lack of boundaries, both in terms of the scope of their actions and the individuals they target. One would think that obtaining $ 55 million under false pretenses and misleading the banks would be enough. But not for Rahul Shah, who pushed boundaries regardless of how it impacted the U.S. […]
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Reina Isom gave 50 people a class tutorial in the hard knocks school on how to use stolen identities to commit fraud. For nearly a decade, Isom devised and carried out an elaborate scheme to defraud the Department of Education out of nearly one million dollars in federal financial aid, using 50 stolen identities. To […]
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