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.

Cybercrime 215

Cybercrime Banking Computers and Electronics DDOS 215

SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

The most remarkable findings The Gelsemium group performs server-side exploitation that effectively leads to a webshell, and uses various custom and public tools deployed with stealth techniques and technologies. Careto is a highly sophisticated threat actor that has been seen targeting various high-profile organizations since at least 2007.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These groups are increasingly expanding their operations, creating new malware variants, selling their tools to third parties and targeting flaws in software and web applications. The oldest, CVE-2007-1036 , is a remote code execution vulnerability first discovered back in 2007, which researchers continue to see exploited in the wild.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Cisco Secure portfolio is massive, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), MFA, vulnerability management, and DDoS protection. Alongside analytics solutions for cloud, malware, and logs, Cisco acquisition of Lancope in 2015 led to the development of its NDR solution, Cisco Secure Network Analytics. Darktrace DETECT Features.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. Dateline Cybercrime .

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.

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