The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Cryptojacking, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission , is the use of JavaScript code to capture cryptocurrencies in users’ browsers without asking permission. Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. Bilogorskiy: Exactly. It was insane.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “P.S. .”

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 22, 2025

After Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, ThreatLabz identified a DanaBot instance that was used to issue commands to infected systems that pushed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) module targeting the Ukrainian Ministry of Defenses webmail server and later an IP address associated with information about Russian prisoners of war (POWs).

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Security Boulevard

JULY 2, 2024

IntroductionIn this two-part blog series, we explore the evolution of SmokeLoader, a malware downloader that has been active since 2011. CMD_MINER or CMD_EMPTY0x271ERequests a cryptocurrency miner executable from the server. If BOT_OPT is 1, the attack was executed successfully. They are separated by the substring {:!:}.CMD_MINER

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Encryption Malware Passwords DDOS 59

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. me , which included a copyright credit to “Hot Spot 2011.” Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 304

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

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