Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

The alleged Anonymous member, Martin Gottesfeld, was accused of launching DDoS attacks against the two US healthcare organizations in 2014, the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. SecurityAffairs – hacktivist attacks, hacking). ” continues IBM. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Bogachev is accused of running the Gameover Zeus botnet , a massive crime machine of 500,000 to 1 million infected PCs that was used for large DDoS attacks and for spreading Cryptolocker — a peer-to-peer ransomware threat that was years ahead of its time. “The Americans were unhappy, and a little surprised.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unbeknownst to Ika at the time, his Pustota forum also had been completely hacked that week, and a copy of its database shared with this author. Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. But in more recent years, Wazawaka has focused on peddling access to organizations and to databases stolen from hacked companies. “Come, rob, and get dough!,”

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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The Falcon's View

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

If you've never been to RSA, or if you only started attending in the last couple years, then it's really hard to describe to you how dramatic the change has been since ~2010 when the numbers started growing like this (to be fair, yoy growth from 2016 to 2017 wasn't all that huge). Hacks are succeeding every day. good grief.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. The group also claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on Swiss email provider ProtonMail.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The DDoS nation-state hackers. Iran's cyber warfare operations are not typically covered as extensively as some others.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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