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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

In October 2018, prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion employees — Jacob Bychak , Mark Manoogian , Petr Pacas , and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum — in a ten-count indictment (PDF) on felony charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

In October 2018, prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion employees — Jacob Bychak , Mark Manoogian , Petr Pacas , and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum — in a ten-count indictment on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud. Amobee , the Redwood City, Calif.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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More Cloud Means More Multi-Tenant Environments

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 billion, up from $246.8 billion in 2017. Consolidation is becoming the norm, and it is critical that organizations, whether consolidating internally or externally, have a secure multi-tenant environment.

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