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Law enforcement shutdown a long-standing DDoS-for-hire service

Security Affairs

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

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The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police. The organization launched an investigation into the cyberattack and determined that only “some of INSTAT systems were affected.”

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Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

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The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit the principal gamins networks in 2013 and 2014, including Sony Online Entertainment. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. By November 2013, Acidut was advertising the sale of “26 million SOCKS residential proxies.”

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A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence revealed a secret hacking squad

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The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. His email address and phone number were also listed in the advert.”

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

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Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.