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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

In 2010, Microsoft — in tandem with a number of security researchers — launched a combined technical and legal sneak attack on the Waledac botnet, successfully dismantling it. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family. The government argued that under U.S.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. law enforcement. At the same time, the U.S.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

All four men have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from a grand jury indictment handed down in June 2017. A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). HOSTING IN THE WIND.

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Experts detailed how China Telecom used BGP hijacking to redirect traffic worldwide

Security Affairs

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) ” states the paper. gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) mil’’) websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. as shown in picture Stage2: OleOBJ inclusion).

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Fast forward to 2017. Branching attacks.

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Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak

Security Affairs

Former NSA TAO hacker was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky. The former NSA hacker is Nghia Hoang Pho (68), he served the US intelligence for 10 years as a member of the NSA’s elite Tailored Access Operations hacking unit.