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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

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[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

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A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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CISA urges to fix multiple critical flaws in Juniper Networks products

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affects nginx resolver and can allow an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause 1-byte memory overwrite, resulting in worker process crash or potential other impact. some of them date back 2013. . some of them date back 2013. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Juniper Networks).

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.

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Russia-linked InvisiMole APT targets state organizations of Ukraine

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Then the backdoor contacts the command-and-control (C2) server to downloads and executes other malicious payloads, including the TunnelMole, malware that abuses the DNS protocol to establish a tunnel for malicious purposes, and RC2FM and RC2CL. SecurityAffairs – hacking, InvisiMole). ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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China-linked Winnti APT targets South Korean Gaming firm

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The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. “The technique relies on a DNS Tunneling communication channel through a custom implementation of the iodine source code , an open-source software that enables the tunneling of IPv4 data through a DNS server.

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