Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

VPN 300

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 300

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1. " It means "this is private."

VPN 358

VPN Phishing DNS Encryption 358

SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. This can be done with the use of a VPN, but these may be illegal depending on the jurisdiction and would typically not be available to Chinese-speaking targets.

Malware 113

Malware Encryption Social Engineering Telecommunications 113