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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore.

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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. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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Supply-Chain Security and Trust

Schneier on Security

The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general: We have no choice but to trust them completely, and it's impossible to verify that they're trustworthy. and other technologies to make decisions without human intervention.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

That’s true today because we do not have the right technology. We began our research in a university lab, where a brand new technology was born. Evolving Deep Technology: From Research to Application. Some of the earliest work we did dates back to 2003, when I was a graduate student.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

That’s true today because we do not have the right technology. We began our research in a university lab, where a brand new technology was born. Evolving Deep Technology: From Research to Application. Some of the earliest work we did dates back to 2003, when I was a graduate student.

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A REFLECTION ON FORALLSECURE'S JOURNEY IN BOOTSTRAPPING BEHAVIOR TESTING TECHNOLOGY

ForAllSecure

That’s true today because we do not have the right technology. We began our research in a university lab, where a brand new technology was born. Evolving Deep Technology: From Research to Application. Some of the earliest work we did dates back to 2003, when I was a graduate student.

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Nokoyawa ransomware attacks with Windows zero-day

SecureList

In February 2023, Kaspersky technologies detected a number of attempts to execute similar elevation-of-privilege exploits on Microsoft Windows servers belonging to small and medium-sized businesses in the Middle East, in North America, and previously in Asia regions.