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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot , a far more secretive and restricted forum where most of the world’s top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the community’s implosion in 2010. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

Security Affairs

BlackTech is a Chinese APT group that has been active since at least 2010 and that known for conducting cyber espionage campaigns in Asia aimed at entities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

Security Affairs

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps. .”

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Cloud Hopper operation hit 8 of the world’s biggest IT service providers

Security Affairs

Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. APT10 hackers also targeted the customers of the IT companies stealing plans, blueprints, personal information, and other data.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit. System Upgrades When the team started work switching from Slax to Ubuntu, they grabbed the latest release at the time (8.10 - Intrepid Ibex).

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