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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

Last year, the French security firm Intrinsec detailed Prospero’s connections to bulletproof services advertised on Russian cybercrime forums under the names Securehost and BEARHOST. The bulletproof hosting provider BEARHOST. This screenshot has been machine-translated from Russian. .” Image: cidr-report.org.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. Ermakov was recently found guilty and given two years probation.

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Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure organizations until February 2025

Security Affairs

The Medusa ransomware operation hit over 300 organizations in critical infrastructure sectors in the United States until February 2025. The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint advisory detailing Medusa ransomware tactics, techniques, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) based on FBI investigations as recent as February 2025.

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IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Non-mobile statistics

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More than 90,000 users experienced ransomware attacks. Nearly 18% of all victims published on ransomware gangs’ data leak sites (DLSs) had been hit by RansomHub. According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014.

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86 million AT&T customer records reportedly up for sale on the dark web

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An electrician's plea: Don't plug these 7 appliances (including AC units) into extension cords

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You should probably delete any sensitive screenshots you have in your phone right now. Here's why

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