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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

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.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

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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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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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China-linked Winnti APT targets South Korean Gaming firm

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. ” The malware sample employed in the attack resembled a Winnti dropper previously analyzed by ESET researcher that was submitted to a public online malware scanning service.

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Russia-linked InvisiMole APT targets state organizations of Ukraine

Security Affairs

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). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threat actor has been targeting the aviation industry since at least 2018

Security Affairs

The group is suspected to have been running successful malware campaigns for more than five years. The attackers have used off-the-shelf malware since the beginning of their operations and have never developed their own malware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). ” concludes the experts.

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

Security Affairs

The group has been active since at least 2013, the Aoqin Dragon was observed seeking initial access primarily through document exploits and the use of fake removable devices. Other techniques employed by the APT group include DLL hijacking, Themida-packed files, and DNS tunneling to evade post-compromise detection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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