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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Beapy Cryptojacking campaign leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread

Security Affairs

Security experts uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign tracked as Beapy that leverages the NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor and the EternalBlue exploit. exploit that could trigger an RCE in older versions of Windows (Windows XP to Server 2008 R2). .” ” reads the analysis published Symantec. “ Beapy ( W32.Beapy

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Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide

Security Affairs

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The post Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

Krebs on Security

Spanish for “Butterfly,” Mariposa was a potent crime machine first spotted in 2008. More recently, Škorjanc served as chief technology officer at NiceHash , a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies like bitcoin. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Yeah, like that.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Dreaming of Enterprise RSS functionality

ChiefTech

We think there are three big, compelling reasons to use a managed system for integrating RSS in your enterprise communications mix: synchronization, analytics and security. " Attensa is a client of mine, and I live the benefits every day. If you check out their original post, they actually offer 9 further reasons.

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Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5 | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. Conference September 3-5 By Oliver Marks | July 31, 2008, 1:55pm PDT Summary I’ve attended every Office 2.0 All pretty cutting edge in the spirit of this conference which is a personal favorite of mine.