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US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

Security Affairs

Alla Witte was arrested on February 6 in Miami, Florida, she has been charged with 19 counts of a 47-count indictment. “Alla Witte, aka Max, 55, is charged in 19 counts of a 47-count indictment, which accuses her of participating in a criminal organization referred to as the “Trickbot Group,” which deployed the Trickbot malware.”

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Alleged ‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Sought Media Spotlight, Got Indicted

Krebs on Security

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors.

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