Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Constella finds that the password most frequently used by the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru was “ filecast ,” and that there are more than 90 email addresses associated with this password. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md Cached copies of DonChicho’s vanity domain ( donchicho[.]ru

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The hackers don’t appear to be financially motivated due to the nature of targeted entities and TTPs of the group.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. Not every application or network requires military-grade encryption – however, enterprise organizations can’t go wrong with the services offering the most strength. The Importance of Encryption. The Move to HTTPS.

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