Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

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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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. ” And its a big problem.

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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. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Hypponen: I think the big shift has been around ransomware groups going after the biggest possible talks. So it pays off.

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