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E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

Krebs on Security

With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. “If you buy this item you’ll get my full support on discord/telegram if there is a problem!,”

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8220 Gang Cloud Botnet infected 30,000 host globally

Security Affairs

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. This month, the experts noticed that the number of infected hosts passed from 2000 to around 30,000. PwnRig cryptocurrency miner execution. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 457 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself.

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CSC Research Finds Third Parties Continue to Lay Groundwork for Malicious Activity Among Thousands of COVID-Related Domains

CyberSecurity Insiders

This research is part of CSC’s latest report, “ Two Year Analysis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Security and Safety. In today’s digital economy, domain name related cybercrime is exponentially rising and impacting organizations, customers, partners, and the connected internet supply chain.

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IT threat evolution Q2 2024

SecureList

After creating tunnels on the target hosts using OpenSSH or SoftEther VPN, the threat actor also installed the FRP client , a fast reverse proxy written in Go that allows access from the internet to a local server behind a NAT or firewall. If the script detects that it’s running on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista, it shuts down.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ethereum Smart Contracts

ForAllSecure

How do you stop a half billion dollars in cryptocurrency from being stolen? There are a lot of public chains, and there are alot of cryptocurrencies. And, bridging across cryptocurrencies, that sometimes exposes a lot of vulnerabilities. In other words, these cryptocurrencies were essentially stolen. million dollars.

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