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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. The yearbook photos for the Amtek class of 2004 are not indexed in the Wayback Machine at archive.org, but the names and nicknames of 16 students remain. However, it appears that the entry for one student — the Wmpay[.]com ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US

Security Affairs

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020. Threat actors targeted the previous Afghan government, Talos speculates.

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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO.”

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Kaspersky

InfoGovNuggets

Questions as to the Kaspersky antivirus software company were raised by military intelligence in 2004, well before the 2013 threat assessment issued Pentagon-wide. “Russian Firm Was Long Seen as Threat,” The Wall Street Journal , November 18, 2017 A2. Who dropped the ball? Did the Russians have an inside track?

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Special Media Catalog Updates

Unwritten Record

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. Photographs Related to Secretary of State Diplomatic Duties, 3/18/2004-11/26/2017 (NAID 85714629; Local Identifier 59-PAD) (180 file unit descriptions and 10,894 born-digital images). Motion Picture Library Stock Shots, ca. 1953 – ca. Still Picture Branch. 1938 – ca.

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

In 2004, CIA and Mossad requested help to the the Dutch intelligence to get access to the plant, only in 2007 the mole, who posed as a mechanic working for a front company doing work at Natanz, dropped the virus into the target systems. “[T ] he Dutch mole was the most important way of getting the virus into Natanz,” one of the sources told Yahoo.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. Correctiv notes the notorious hacker group Sandworm — an advanced persistent threat (APT) group operated by a cyberwarfare unit of Russia’s military intelligence service — was identified by Ukrainian government authorities as responsible for that attack.

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