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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Spur tracks SocksEscort as a malware-based proxy offering, which means the machines doing the proxying of traffic for SocksEscort customers have been infected with malicious software that turns them into a traffic relay. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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A new Zerobot variant spreads by exploiting Apache flaws

Security Affairs

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

In some cases, the gang also threatened and conducted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during negotiations. In some cases, AvosLocker negotiators also threaten and launche distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during negotiations, likely when the victims are not cooperating, to convince them to comply with their demands.

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Spyware in the IoT – the Biggest Privacy Threat This Year

SiteLock

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

As far as we know, HermeticWiper remains the most advanced wiper software discovered in the wild. That said, a number of those tools are very crude from a software engineering perspective and appear to have been developed hurriedly. It directly affected satellite modems firmwares , but was still to be understood as of mid-March.

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