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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Krebs on Security

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. ” 911 did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this research. ”

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us A copy of pictrace[.]com

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What Is DMARC Email Security Technology?

eSecurity Planet

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Jason is a graphic tool implemented to perform Microsoft exchange account brute-force in order to “harvest” the highest possible emails and accounts information. which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. The attacker used an old version of Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll tagged as 15.0.0.0