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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

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pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in net prior to our phone call in 2014. com and zstress[.]net.

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Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware

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Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. ” reads one of the alerts.

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EVRAZ operations in North America disrupted by Ryuk ransomware

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Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

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A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.”

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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

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Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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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. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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US Army stopped using floppy disks as storage for SACCS system that manages nuclear weapons arsenal

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The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. ” The use of the 8-inch floppy disks was revealed back in 2014 by the CBS “60 Minutes” TV show. “Any electronic repair is going to take a lot of work.