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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

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The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. In mid-December 2022, the U.S.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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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. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw pw was their domain.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

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Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

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This is hardly the first time scammers have impersonated Wood or ARKinvest; a tweet from Wood in 2020 warned that the company would never use YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or any social media to solicit money. billion stolen by scammers in 2020, the report found. The ark-x2[.]org We don’t keep your logs!,”

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