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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

Krebs on Security

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net”

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, info , a website erected after Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022 that doxed Russians perceived to have helped the Ukrainian cause. io, the main other domain at this address was hkleaks[.]ml.

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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and identified approximately 30,000.US “We’re always looking at the end malware or phishing page, but what we’re finding here is that there’s this middle layer of DNS threat actors persisting for years without notice.”

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. FORUM ACTIVITY?

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