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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com. Click to enlarge.

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Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US

Security Affairs

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. Threat actors targeted the previous Afghan government, Talos speculates. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Kaspersky

InfoGovNuggets

Questions as to the Kaspersky antivirus software company were raised by military intelligence in 2004, well before the 2013 threat assessment issued Pentagon-wide. “Russian Firm Was Long Seen as Threat,” The Wall Street Journal , November 18, 2017 A2. Who dropped the ball? Did the Russians have an inside track?

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

and Israel get Stuxnet onto the highly secured Natanz plant? The development of the deadly cyber weapon started under the administration of George Bush Junior as part of a military operation named “ Olympic Games ”, but the Obama administration has been pushing a more energetic on the offensive program. ” wrote the journalists.

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military. 2004: Mydoom worm Similar to ILOVEYOU, the Mydoom worm also used email to self-replicate and infect systems around the world.

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

The national security agency. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? There is something very special about securing a physical object -- something you can point to and touch. It’s not commonplace to have the opportunity to secure something that flies at Mach 2!