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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. info — using the email address icamis@4host.info.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Here’s a Subliminal Channel You Haven’t Considered Before

Schneier on Security

penises in liquor advertising. Fill in the blank: the name of this blog is Schneier on __ (required): Comments: Allowed HTML • • • • • Markdown Extra syntax via [link] Δ ← Largest DDoS Attack to Date Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. ” Circa 1975, this guy was seeing severed.

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