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Who Wants to Fuel Independent and High Quality OSINT/Cybercrime and Threat Intelligence Research? Accepting BitCoin Donations

Security Boulevard

Dear blog readers, Did you already grab a copy of my 2019-2023 " Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge " Ebook which is 1.7GB compilation for free? Have you also grabbed a copy of all of my publicly accessible research from 2005 up to 2023 from here for free? Stay tuned!

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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Who Wants to Become a Guest Blogger At This Blog?

Security Boulevard

Dear blog readers, Do you know a lot about information security cybercrime research OSINT and threat intelligence gathering including cyber threat actors research? Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations? Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations?

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A database containing data of +8.9 million Zacks users was leaked online

Security Affairs

A database containing the personal information of more than 8.9 million Zacks Investment Research users was leaked on a cybercrime forum. A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Proxy services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com , segate[.]org

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Authorities dismantled the card-checking platform Try2Check

Security Affairs

The platform has been active since 2005, according to the DoJ, it generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Today’s indictment and global takedown of the Try2Check website demonstrates that the Office, together with our partners, will disrupt cybercrime operations no matter where they are based.”

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Zacks Investment Research data breach impacted hundreds of thousands of customers

Security Affairs

According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. The company discovered the intrusion at the end of 2022, it believes the unauthorized access took place sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.