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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. Shotliff said he sold his BHProxies account to another Black Hat World forum user from Egypt back in 2014. com on Mar.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

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Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

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The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” ” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading. .”

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec.

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

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He was paroled in 2009, and in 2014 moved his family to a home in Lancaster County, Pa. Thread hijacking attacks are hardly new, but that is mainly true because many Internet users still don’t know how to identify them. The FBI hasn’t responded to LancasterOnline’s tip.

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

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According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. This post examines the work of a large, private group of volunteers dedicated to doing just that.

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