Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. Bogachev is a top Russian cybercriminal with a standing $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

AT&T Alien Labs™ has found new malware written in the open source programming language Golang. The malware creates a backdoor and waits to either receive a target to attack from a remote operator through port 19412 or from another related module running on the same machine. VirusTotal scanning results of BotenaGo malware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS (aka the Zbot Trojan) is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead of its time. Collectively, this malware and its variants infected millions of systems and stole billions of dollars worldwide. According to SecureWorks, ZeuS 1.3.4.x,

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There are other protection mechanisms, such as Malware Defense , that can block further threats. For example, alerts produced by one firewall under a DDoS attack can easily dwarf the number of alerts generated from a single exploit that hits hundreds of organizations. Forced Authentication [ T1187 ]. CVE-2007-1036.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. In 2007, he is arrested and eventually pleads guilty to wire fraud, stealing millions of credit card numbers and around $86 million of fraudulent purchases.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Over the years, it has built up a wide range of security products, including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), UTM, malware protection and cloud protection. Founded: 2007. Cisco’s roots are in networking but by necessity it has expanded into security and storage. Learn more about Cisco. Visit website. Visit website.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Since 2009, Okta has been a thought leader in the access, authentication, and authorization space. Azure AD currently boasts over 30 billion daily authentication requests, totaling 171 terabytes of daily data to inform remediation and risk mitigation. Read our overview and analysis of Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Solution.

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