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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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Maze ransomware operators claim to have breached LG Electronics

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Maze ransomware operators claims to have breached the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Electronics. Researchers at Cyble discovered a data leak of LG Electronics published by Maze ransomware operators. In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 SecurityAffairs – LG Electronics, Maze ransomware).

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Magecart cybercrime group stole customers’ credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer

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Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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Security expert Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool

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I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems.

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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 -->. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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NASA warns of a significant increase in cyber attacks during Coronavirus outbreak

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During the past few weeks, NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC) mitigation tools have prevented success of these attempts.” NASA employees and contractors should be aware that nation-states and cyber criminals are actively using the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit and target NASA electronic devices, networks, and personal devices.”

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

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In the United Kingdom, police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from a number of Webstresser users, and some 250 customers of the service will soon face legal action, Europol said in a statement released this week. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks. According to U.S.