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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

Krebs on Security

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing an email. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Based in Monroe, La., Lumen Technologies Inc.

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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Internet Explorer and Twilio Authy bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Internet Explorer and Twilio Authy bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. is a use-after-free issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8. is a use-after-free issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8.

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Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

Schneier on Security

That included an FBI counterintelligence investigation that began around 2012, when agents started monitoring the communications of a small group of Supermicro workers, using warrants obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , or FISA, according to five of the officials. I seem to have been wrong. and Microsoft Corp.,

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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

Krebs on Security

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Experts warn of mass exploitation of critical PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577

Security Affairs

An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass protections for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2012-1823, using specific character sequences. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. In June, the U.S. ” concludes GreyNoise.

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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

“In the tech-heavy, geek-speak world of cybersecurity, these sorts of infographics and maps are popular because they promise to make complicated and boring subjects accessible and sexy,” I wrote in a January 2016 story about Norse’s implosion. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.