The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.) The good news is that AI is coming into play across the board — in cybersecurity innovations to harden software code, manage cloud access and even make encryption more flexible and resilient.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran the world’s top spam forum and worked closely with Russia’s most dangerous cybercriminals. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

and other militaries have always been at the top of the target list for so-called “advanced persistent threat” cyber adversaries. Air Force personnel way back in 2005 as a way to talk about the kinds of enduring cyber attacks and attempts at data exfiltration they were observing. ” And its a big problem.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that was first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development begun at least 2005. That mole then provided much -needed inside access when it came time to slip Stuxnet onto those systems using a USB flash drive.” ” wrote the journalists.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2005, unknown attackers targeted the cell phones of many Greek politicians by hacking the country's phone network and turning on an already-installed eavesdropping capability. We don't know details of which countries do what, but we know a lot about the vulnerabilities. Here, it matters which phone is being targeted. This is changing.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

There’s an online war in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about because that country is holding its own with an army of infosec volunteers worldwide. Vamosi: For most of my career I have speculated when and where there would be an escalation of physical war into the virtual world. But most of us failed. It’s not.

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