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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

Krebs on Security

Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button. ” In such assaults, the perpetrators leverage unmanaged Domain Name Servers (DNS) or other devices on the Web to create huge traffic floods.

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. Building a re-directors or proxy chains is quite useful for attackers in order to evade Intrusion Prevention Systems and/or protections infrastructures based upon IPs or DNS blocks. Introduction.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison. Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week.

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KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

Malwarebytes

Often the attackers use enslaved computers, "bots", to send the requests. That attack was attributed to KillNet by the country’s healthcare computer emergency response team, Z-CERT. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities. image files, and analysis of remote computers.

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