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FBI: Operation ‘Duck Hunt’ dismantled the Qakbot botnet

Security Affairs

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. ” “All of this was made possible by the dedicated work of FBI Los Angeles, our Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters, and our partners, both here at home and overseas,” added Wray.

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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. According to the information security giants, there is one known criminal that uses the handle of Bonito, and has been identified as selling access to SCADA systems.

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

Usually after the phrase there are MD5 hashes [1] , IP addresses and other technical data that should help information security specialists to counter a specific threat. What is cyber threat intelligence, and how do we use it in GReAT? This is what we call cyber threat intelligence.