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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

Most of the spammers Hostswinds terminated were sending messages for marketing programs that sign consumers up for various products or services which bill monthly and can be very difficult for consumers to cancel. Interestingly, in 2014 Spamhaus was sued by Blackstar Media LLC , a bulk email marketing company and subsidiary of Adconion.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

And a great many of these “proxy” networks are marketed primarily to cybercriminals seeking to anonymize their traffic by routing it through an infected PC, router or mobile device. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. com, such as abuseipdb[.]com com , bestiptest[.]com

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Black Hat AI Tools Fuel Rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

eSecurity Planet

“This tool presents itself as a blackhat alternative to GPT models, designed specifically for malicious activities.” The forums contain marketing of ChatGPT-like custom modules, which are expressly promoted as black hat alternatives. ” The security researchers tested WormGPT to see how it would perform in BEC attacks.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. Presented with the information gathered for this report (and more that is not published here), Mr. Tretyakov acknowledged that Semen7907 was his account on sysadmins[.]ru, cc is essentially a data market,” they continued.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later. Left unpatched Log4Shell vulnerabilities present easy paths for a threat actor to take full control of the underlying system. The intensely competitive cybersecurity talent market is partly to blame here.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

KnowBe4

The scam starts with a phishing email informing you that ChatGPT has a new feature to help you invest in the stock market. Unfortunately, if you submit a payment, that money won't help you invest in the stock market. After completing the login process, customers are presented with a form to update credit card information," INKY says.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

The problem here is that we’re not dealing with a company that releases reliable information (that isn’t associated with their users as marketing targets). Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. In short, there is no upside.

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