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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. . It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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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.

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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 Future of War (From Jan., 1993 to the Present)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The most notable of these continuing operations is the not-so-covert war in Pakistan, where the United States has carried out more than 300 drone strikes since 2004. This is virtual reality as a new way of knowledge: a new and terrible kind of transcendent military power. It also affects how we and our politicians view such operations.

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

Security Affairs

In 2004, CIA and Mossad requested help to the the Dutch intelligence to get access to the plant, only in 2007 the mole, who posed as a mechanic working for a front company doing work at Natanz, dropped the virus into the target systems. “[T ] he Dutch mole was the most important way of getting the virus into Natanz,” one of the sources told Yahoo.

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? To put it in perspective, the first autonomous car challenge was in 2004. I remember the first time I was staring at the earth through a glass window as an airplane slowly moved up for an air-to-air refueling from a KC-135.

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? To put it in perspective, the first autonomous car challenge was in 2004. I remember the first time I was staring at the earth through a glass window as an airplane slowly moved up for an air-to-air refueling from a KC-135.