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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. Over the past decade, both Glupteba and AWM Proxy have grown substantially. But on Dec.

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

Herjavec Group

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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#OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific

Security Affairs

At this time, Anonymous only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the sites of the target organizations. Anonymous already targeted the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan Atomic Power Co. and the Atomic Energy Society of Japan. The media reported that the storage vessels are nearing capacity.

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Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

Krebs on Security

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. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

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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The FBI's Most Wanted Iranian Nation-State Hackers

SecureWorld News

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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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. Bilogorskiy: One other kind of attack that we’ve seen is where companies get hacked and those computers have mining malware put on them.