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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru ru in 2008. account on Carder[.]su su from 2008.

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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

According to the indictment , the alleged hackers targeted more than 45 companies and government agencies from 2006 to 2018 and stole “hundreds of gigabytes” of sensitive data and personal information from its targets. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ” continues the DoJ’s Press release.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

I’m Robert Vamosi, and in this episode I’m not just throwing more cold water on biometrics, I’m also discussing the scary but very real new world of machine learning and even AI being used by adversaries to simulate human behavior in order to defeat behavioral biometrics and gain access to systems. Think about it.