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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Defenders, meanwhile, have to guard everything all of the time, and most organizations have many more Internet pathways than they even know about, much less are taking steps to defend.” I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. A criminal botnet is a network of bots under control of an individual attacker.

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Cybersecurity CEO: Security Awareness is An Ongoing Commitment

Herjavec Group

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in October 2004. According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Ransomware, the fastest growing type of cybercrime, cost the world $11.5

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Harvard Business Publishing licensee hit by ransomware

Security Affairs

The dataset also contained payment logs with emails, dates, bank names, phone numbers, and internet protocol (IP) addresses. SHA1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) has been broken since 2004 and can be breached quickly by criminals at relatively little cost. The 3.9GB-strong database held information from 2017 onwards.