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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Quotpw/Ahick/Edgard/ципа advertising his coding services in this Google-translated forum posting.

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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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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net.

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