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This hidden Google Maps feature is making people emotional - here's why

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The surprising way ThredUp uses AI to sort 80,000 new items a day

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

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A search in DomainTools on that email address reveals multiple domains registered to a Matthew Philbert and to the Ottawa phone number 6138999251 [DomainTools is a frequent advertiser on this site]. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

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According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal. WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? And on most of these identities, Megatraffer has used the email address 774748@gmail.com.

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Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

As of this birthday, I’ve officially been an independent investigative journalist for longer than I was a reporter for The Washington Post (1995-2009). Our advertising partners are how we keep the lights on over here. as a young teen, I inherited a largish paper route handed down from my elder siblings). Happy 2024 everyone!

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

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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. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Page translation from Russian via Google Translate.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. In 2020, Grichishkin was arrested outside of Russia on a warrant for providing bulletproof hosting services to cybercriminal gangs.