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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. billion last year.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Krebs on Security

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS.

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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) Or so concludes The Interisle Consulting Group , which gathers phishing data from multiple industry sources and publishes an annual report on the latest trends. and illicit or harmful content.

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