Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia. ” the post enthuses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. Merging into BackTrack At the same time, there was a similar project happening over at remote-exploit, Auditor Security Collection (based on Knoppix), which first started in 2005.

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