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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

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pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in net prior to our phone call in 2014. com and zstress[.]net.

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Maze ransomware operators claim to have breached LG Electronics

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Maze ransomware operators claims to have breached the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Electronics. Researchers at Cyble discovered a data leak of LG Electronics published by Maze ransomware operators. In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 SecurityAffairs – LG Electronics, Maze ransomware).

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Magecart cybercrime group stole customers’ credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer

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Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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EVRAZ operations in North America disrupted by Ryuk ransomware

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Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

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In the United Kingdom, police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from a number of Webstresser users, and some 250 customers of the service will soon face legal action, Europol said in a statement released this week. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks. According to U.S.

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Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

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The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit the principal gamins networks in 2013 and 2014, including Sony Online Entertainment. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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DHS report – Voting systems in North Carolina county in 2016 were not hacked

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Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The errors affecting the VR Systems electronic poll books forced officials to switch to paper registration records, the duration of the overall voting operations was extend ed due to the problems.