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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com (2017).

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Cybersecurity Report: July 15, 2015

SiteLock

Protect your website from hackers and cybercrime. According to The Intercept, the publication that first reported the WikiLeaks data, the surveillance was alleged to start no later than 2011 and there was no indication that the eavesdropping had stopped. Cyber Attack on Edinburgh City Council.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% of cyber attacks IBM handled. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

The disclosure of the Makop cyber arsenal tools shall enable defenders to correlate even more intrusion attempts to the gang, to reach early detection of the abuse of both legit and custom-made tools. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Though both governments have formally denied responsibility for the attack, Stuxnet is today commonly known to be the work of a joint effort between Israel and the United States, as reported by both “The New York Times” and “The Washington Post,” among others. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022.

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