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 From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal). 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.

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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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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko had read some of my reporting on Netsky, which Skynet backwards, a virus also known as Sasser, was a typical virus-of-the-day back in 2005. So back in 2005, Microsoft offered, you know, $25,000 to have somebody turn in a malware writer back. Mikko pulled me aside into the parking lot under a blazing Nevada sun in August.

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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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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.

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