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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

But rather than divert their spam botnets from their normal activity and thereby decrease sales, the botmasters voted to create a new DDoS botnet by purchasing installations of DDoS malware on thousands of already-hacked PCs (at a rate of $25 per 1,000 installs). ” Likewise, the bulletproof domain service icamis[.]ws 9, 2024).

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. An ad for war.md, circa 2009. PEACE HOSTING?

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New European Union Dual-Use Regulation Enters Into Force

Data Matters

As from September 9, 2021, Regulation (EU) 2021/821 ( EU Dual-Use Regulation Recast ) replaces the existing Council Regulation (EC) 428/2009 setting up the European Union (EU) regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering, and transit of “dual-use” items ( EU Dual-Use Regulation ). New controls on technical assistance.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

And the ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster notified the users of its UK site that their personal information could have been compromised after a malware infection on a support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies was found to be exfiltrating data – including payment information – to the Magecart group.