Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. Ransom_man bragged about Vastaamo’s sloppy security, noting the company had used the laughably weak username and password “root/root” to protect sensitive patient records.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. Another domain registered to that phone number was stairwell[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. In one week, the Scientology website is hit with 500 DDoS attacks. .

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm. OVH DDoS attack. At that time, It was propelled in the spotlight when it was used to carry massive DDoS attacks against. Krebs on Security. via massive. Krebs on Security attack. August 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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