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WeSteal, a shameless commodity cryptocurrency stealer available for sale

Security Affairs

Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” The post WeSteal, a shameless commodity cryptocurrency stealer available for sale appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

The user “RSOCKS” on the Russian crime forum Verified changed his name to RSOCKS from a previous handle: “ Stanx ,” whose very first sales thread on Verified in 2016 quickly ran afoul of the forum’s rules and prompted a public chastisement by the forum’s administrator.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.

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

The Last Watchdog

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems.