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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware.

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Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a site 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 website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. com , which was initially registered on behalf of CBS Interactive Inc.

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