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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? ru in 2008.

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When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware

Krebs on Security

” The card reader Mark bought was sold by a company called Saicoo , whose sponsored Amazon listing advertises a “DOD Military USB Common Access Card (CAC) Reader” and has more than 11,700 mostly positive ratings. His site has even been officially recommended by the Army (PDF). Image: Militarycac.com.

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Critical zero-days discovered in VxWorks RTOS, billions of devices at risk

Security Affairs

Even a device that is reaching outbound to the internet could be attacked and taken over. This timespan might be even longer, as according to Wind River, three of the vulnerabilities were already existent in IPnet when it acquired the stack from Interpeak in 2006.” ” reads the report published by Armis Labs.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

As noted in the Secret Service’s criminal complaint (PDF), the Try2Check service was first advertised on the closely-guarded Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka , by someone using the handle “ KreenJo.” That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz. One of the domains registered in 2006 to the address unforgiven57@mail.ru antivirusxp09[.]com). was thelib[.]ru

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Mr. Mirza declined to respond to questions, but the exposed database information was removed from the Internet almost immediately after KrebsOnSecurity shared the offending links. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. org back in 2014.

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