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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice , RSOCKS offered clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been hacked: “A cybercriminal who wanted to utilize the RSOCKS platform could use a web browser to navigate to a web-based ‘storefront’ (i.e., “I opened an American visa for myself, it was not difficult to get. .”

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised. WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

At first glance, February appears to be a big improvement cyber security-wise compared to the start of the year. Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). The US Defence Information Systems Administration discloses 2019 cyber attack (unknown). In other news….

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Three members of FIN7 (Carbanak) gang charged with stealing 15 million credit cards

Security Affairs

Three members of the notorious cybercrime gang known as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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