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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

Krebs on Security

On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. Several former customers of his took to Hackforums[.]net

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Phishers prefer Tesla, top 3 malware strains in Coronavirus phishing campaigns

Security Affairs

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. Spyware turned out to be the most common malware class hiding in fraudulent COVID-19 emails, with AgentTesla topping the list of phishers’ favorite strains. Source: CERT-GIB. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 270

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 269

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. authorities sanction six Nigerian nationals for BEC and Romance Fraud. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 429 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 240

Security Affairs

Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure. DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison. New TA2101 threat actor poses as government agencies to distribute malware. WhatsApp flaw CVE-2019-11931 could be exploited to install spyware.

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