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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. prison system and deported back to Vietnam, Ngo is currently finishing up a mandatory three-week COVID-19 quarantine at a government-run facility. Secret Service.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Security Affairs

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police. The cyberattack hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. NATO , and the U.K.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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The ‘MartyMcFly’ investigation: Italian naval industry under attack

Security Affairs

The email message contains a pdf document named ”Marine_Engine_Spare__Parts_Order.pdf”, originally prepared from an Office document using “ Microsoft Word 2013 ” and then converted into PDF format using the “ Online2PDF.com ” online service. possible usage of “ Microsoft Word 2013 ”. Malicious email message. Attachment.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

But if we focus on the beginning of 2018 it looks like APT28 was using a more consolidated intelligence technique ( T1376 ) by focusing on Human Intelligence in order to grab precious information used to deliver a well-crafted email campaign (government institutions related to foreign affairs).