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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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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. One of the domains registered in 2006 to the address unforgiven57@mail.ru In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Krebs on Security

In 2006, Kidan was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding lenders along with Jack Abramoff , the disgraced lobbyist whose corruption became a symbol of the excesses of Washington influence peddling. ” The phishing lure attached to the thread hijacking email from Mr. Kidan.

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