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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Anonymous claims to have hacked German subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft

Security Affairs

Anonymous claims to have hacked the systems of the German subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft and stole 20TB of data. The Anonymous hacker collective claimed to have hacked the German branch of the Russian energy giant Rosneft. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BazarLoader). Anonymous has attacked the energy company Rosneft.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 283

Security Affairs

SecurityAffairs – hacking, Newsletter). Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

For instance, according to the New York Times, in 2003, the United States made plans for a huge cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in Saddam Hussein’s bank accounts and cripple his government before the invasion of Iraq. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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IP-in-IP flaw affects devices from Cisco and other vendors

Security Affairs

IP-in-IP encapsulation is a tunneling protocol specified in RFC 2003 that allows for IP packets to be encapsulated inside another IP packets. This unexpected Data Processing Error (CWE-19) by a vulnerable device can be abused to perform reflective DDoS and in certain scenarios used to bypass network access control lists.”

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Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service

Security Affairs

In 2021, Avaddon ransomware operators added support for Windows XP and 2003 for their malware and also started adding DDoS attacks as an extortion mechanism to force victims into paying the ransom. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Avaddon ransomware). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry. He started hacking in the 1990s. I hope you’ll stick around. CLEMENS: My name is Daniel Clemens.

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