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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. “Nordex,” in his Ferrari. Image: USDOJ.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a 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. .

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Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs

The Security Ledger

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

Security Affairs

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. The virus was developed by the US and Israel to interfere with the nuclear enrichment program conducted by Iran in the plant of Natanz. The final updates were made on Sept.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

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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Trump secretly ordered cyber attacks against Iran missile systems

Security Affairs

The United States launched a series of cyber attacks on Iran after the Iranian military has downed an American surveillance drone. The military response to Iran, after the Iranian army has downed an American surveillance drone, started from the cyberspace. surveillance drone, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Cell Phone Security and Heads of State

Schneier on Security

What about the cell phones of other world leaders and senior government officials? These included senior government officials of Germany -- among them Chancellor Angela Merkel -- France , Japan , and other countries. These vulnerabilities are resold to governments and cyberweapons manufacturers.