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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc. In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S.

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The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware

Malwarebytes

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2008 Beijing. 1996 Atlanta.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. SocksEscort[.]com DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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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. com was legitimate or a scam. 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. com , postaljobscenter[.]com

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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Since 2008, however, the United States has also taken an interest in this occurrence.

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Three UK-based Nigerian BEC Scammers Used Construction Intelligence Service to Target Victims

Security Boulevard

The Texas FBI investigators learned that danielroberts604 was also linked to an investigation being led by FBI Charlotte, North Carolina, where he had used the domain rodgersbuildersinc.com to do a similar scam, as well as another Texas scam using the domain leelewisusa.com to steal funds from a school system in Dallas, Texas. .

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