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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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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

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Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware.

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Experts linked Maui ransomware to North Korean Andariel APT

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North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, may be eligible for a reward. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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DDoS-for-Hire Services operator sentenced to 13 months in prison

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The defendant made hundreds of thousands of dollars by launching millions of DDoS attacks with the platforms he was operating with a co-conspirator from August 2015 to November 2017. The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks. The Chief U.S.

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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 -->. Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.” ” reads the press release published by the company.