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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Click to enlarge.

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

McCoy’s work in probing the credit card systems used by some of the world’s biggest purveyors of junk email greatly enriched the data that informed my 2014 book Spam Nation , and I wanted to make sure he and his colleagues had a crack at the BriansClub data as well. Source: NYU. Nearly all cards issued by the top ten largest U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 269

Security Affairs

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Group-IB identifies leaked credentials of 40,000 users of government websites in 30 countries

Security Affairs

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world. Group-IB Threat Intelligence has detected government websites’ user accounts compromised by cyber criminals in 30 countries.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. Grichishkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.

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Crypto AG was spied for US, German intelligence agencies for decades

Security Affairs

The list of Crypto’s customers included Iran, India and Pakistan, military juntas in Latin America and the Vatican. The BND used the proceeds generated from the sale of cryptography devices to fund field operations, while the CIA used the money to buy competitors and create the conditions for a monopoly for Crypto.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 249

Security Affairs

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