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Orchard botnet uses Bitcoin Transaction info to generate DGA domains

Security Affairs

“It’s worth pointing out that the wallet address is the miner reward receiving address of the Bitcoin Genesis Block , which occurred on January 3, 2009, and is believed to be held by Nakamoto.” Version 3 supports features to launch an XMRig Monero mining software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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The Link Between Ransomware and Cryptocurrency

eSecurity Planet

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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European Commission Presents Evaluation Report on Telecommunications Data Retention

Hunton Privacy

The Commission’s Evaluation Report follows a lengthy evaluation procedure launched in 2009 which also includes a report issued by the Article 29 Working Party that we reported on in July 2010. Providing guidance on technical and organizational security measures for access to data. Narrowing the categories of data to be retained.

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

ChiefTech

©2005-2009. 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. This is the old ChiefTech blog. Nice of you to drop in and visit.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. 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. And we've had our fair share of security concerns with those.