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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org. Corpse/Revive also long operated an extremely popular service called check2ip[.]com

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Once a penetration tester, Paul Asadoorian has been the founder and CEO of Security Weekly and host of a weekly show since 2005. Enable 2FA and get a password manager. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

In 2005, Sony BMG delivered millions of CDs with a rootkit that monitored listening habits and unintentionally left a backdoor to the device for cybercriminals. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Good password hygiene is one of the best ways to prevent access to keyloggers.

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Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back

SecureList

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The following map shows the countries where we detected Tomiris targets (colored in green: Afghanistan and CIS members or ratifiers).

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Black Hat Asia 2022: Building the Network

Cisco Security

In 2005, I was lucky enough to become a Senior Editor at Tom’s Hardware Guide and attended Black Hat as accredited press from 2005 to 2008. were applied, as well as a standard WPA2 SSID for the devices that the device vendor had set up (we gave them the name of the SSID and Password).

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.