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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Darkode was taken down in 2015 as part of an FBI investigation sting operation , but screenshots of the community saved by this author show that DCReavers2 was already well known to the Darkode founders when his membership to the forum was accepted in May 2009. A 2012 sales thread on Darkode for Rev Locker.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. 119,000 individuals were affected.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. Vamosi: Imagine that you've arranged your life so that you could be online to get the tickets to a concert, the moment they first go on sale, or better yet, a pre-sale.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. Vamosi: Imagine that you've arranged your life so that you could be online to get the tickets to a concert, the moment they first go on sale, or better yet, a pre-sale.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. I don't kind of mix the two and I'm in charge of global sales operations, channel operations and go to market strategy. It's mine. The next episode of the hacker mine is all about hacking is not a crime.