Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. “P.S. The code is written in C.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Related: Why cryptojacking is more insidious than ransomware. However, closer inspection reveals how cryptojacking morphed out of the ransomware plague of 2015 and 2016. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length: LW: Is there a connection between cryptojacking and ransomware? It was mostly a consumer attack. It was insane.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! The DDoS attack is part of a political activist movement against the church called “Project Chanology.” billion dollars in damages.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This does not mean actors are not actively seeking to up their technological impact, including aggressively pursuing ransomware methods. Simultaneously, however, we have seen some indication that Iran is conducting more aggressive operations designed to disrupt their target's networks and day-to-day operations, including through ransomware.".

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Founded: 2011. Microsoft has quietly built up a large security portfolio.

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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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