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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

“While defendants touted ties to well-known name brands, the email marketing campaigns associated with the hijacked IP addresses included advertisements such as ‘BigBeautifulWomen,’ ‘iPhone4S Promos,’ and ‘LatinLove[Cost-per-Click].'” ” Amobee has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2022 Edition

Krebs on Security

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. “However, given the number of stolen credentials readily available on underground markets, getting authenticated could be trivial. .

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

Most of the spammers Hostswinds terminated were sending messages for marketing programs that sign consumers up for various products or services which bill monthly and can be very difficult for consumers to cancel. Interestingly, in 2014 Spamhaus was sued by Blackstar Media LLC , a bulk email marketing company and subsidiary of Adconion.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

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“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password. cc is essentially a data market,” they continued. “Snatchteam[.]cc

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Introducing Anycloud Backup 365

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An IBM partner since 2013, Denmark-based Anycloud has been awarded Cloud Partner of the Year 2017, Technology Service Provider of the Year 2019, and Business Partner of the Year and Business Partner Excellence Award – Europe 2022. ​ “We bring great technology to the market that can be consumed in a very simple way.

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