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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. 9, 2024).

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). The following timeline tracks APT28 back to 2008 and gives us a quick view on how big and organized is the threat group over the past decade. Attack Timeline.