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Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis

Security Affairs

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. Cleaver attack capabilities are evolved over time very quickly and, according to Cylance, active since 2012.

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

Herjavec Group

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! An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison. Most users are unaffected.