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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. ” Hummel said NoName will typically launch their attacks using a mix of resources from rented from major, legitimate cloud services, and those from so-called “ bulletproof ” hosting providers like Stark. PEACE HOSTING?

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. Agility, speed, and modular transactions happen on the fly and in the cloud.