17 Facts About Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs was born on 1972 and is an American journalist and investigative reporter.

Brian Krebs is best known for his coverage of profit-seeking cybercriminals.

From 1995 to 2009, Krebs was a reporter for The Washington Post and covered tech policy, privacy and computer security as well as authoring the Security Fix blog.

Brian Krebs started his career at The Washington Post in the circulation department.

Brian Krebs worked as an editorial aide for the editorial department and the financial desk.

In 1999, Brian Krebs went to work as a staff writer for Newsbytes.

Brian Krebs's stories appeared in both the print edition of the paper and Washingtonpost.

In 2005, Brian Krebs launched the Security Fix blog, a daily blog centered around computer security, cyber crime and tech policy.

Brian Krebs has focused his reporting at his blog on the fallout from the activities of several organized cybercrime groups operating out of eastern Europe that have stolen tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses through online banking fraud.

Brian Krebs has written more than 75 stories about small businesses and other organizations that were victims of online banking fraud, an increasingly costly and common form of cybercrime.

Brian Krebs wrote a series of investigative stories that culminated in the disconnection or dissolution of several Internet service providers that experts said catered primarily to cyber criminals.

In November 2008, Brian Krebs published an investigative series that led to the disconnection of McColo, another northern California hosting firm that experts said was home to control networks for most of the world's largest botnets.

Brian Krebs is credited with being the first journalist, in 2010, to report on the malware that would later become known as Stuxnet.

On March 14,2013, Brian Krebs became one of the first journalists to become a victim of swatting.

On December 18,2013, Brian Krebs broke the story that Target Corporation had been breached of 40 million credit cards.

Six days later, Brian Krebs identified a Ukrainian man who Brian Krebs said was behind a primary black market site selling Target customers' credit and debit card information for as much as US$100 apiece.

In 2016, Brian Krebs's blog was the target of one of the largest ever DDoS attacks using the Mirai malware, apparently in retaliation for Brian Krebs's role in investigating the vDOS botnet.