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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

Krebs on Security

” Another important distinction between this week’s coordinated action and past booter site takedowns was that the government actually tested each service it dismantled to validate claims about attack firepower and to learn more about how each service conducted assaults. ” DOWN THEM ALL.

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

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China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon compromised some U.S. internet service providers (ISPs)

Security Affairs

“Hackers linked to the Chinese government have broken into a handful of U.S. Upon investigating the incidents, the researchers determined that a DNS poisoning attack at the ISP level caused the infection. The DNS records were poisoned to resolve to an attacker-controlled server in Hong Kong at IP address 103.96.130[.]107.

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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. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. For starters, they frequently changed the status on their instant messenger clients at different times.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

The researchers concluded that 911 is supported by a “mid scale botnet-like infrastructure that operates in several networks, such as corporate, government and critical infrastructure.” “Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.”

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A whirlwind adventure: Malwarebytes' 15-year journey in business cybersecurity

Malwarebytes

Act I: Humble Beginnings (2008 - 2012) In the late 2000s, Malwarebytes tiptoed into the business sector with corporate licensing for its consumer anti-malware product. Malwarebytes added a DNS/Web Content Filtering Module and a Cloud Storage Scanning Module to the mix, rounding off a delectable buffet of cybersecurity enhancements.

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Previously undocumented Aoqin Dragon APT targets entities in Southeast Asia and Australia

Security Affairs

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities.

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