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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

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Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Nikita Kislitsin, at a security conference in Russia. Department of Justice.

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

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The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Sometime around 2013, Taleon launched a partnership with a money transfer business called pm2btc[.]me.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

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The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. .'” ” Amobee has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities.

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Cisco to pay $8.6 million fine for selling flawed surveillance technology to the US Gov

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million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco is going to pay $8.6 ” reported The New York Times.

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Previously undocumented Aoqin Dragon APT targets entities in Southeast Asia and Australia

Security Affairs

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities.

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Journalist Matthew Keys is now charged with an attack on a magazine

Security Affairs

Keys was accused of providing Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface access and deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2013. When Keys left Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40 in 2010, he shared login credentials of the CMS used by the website with members of Anonymous. Pierluigi Paganini.

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