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

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The Russian hacker group Nerf as described in a March 2006 article in the Russian hacker magazine xakep.ru. Alex Holden is founder of the Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm Hold Security. Early in his career (circa 2000) Shakhmametov was known as “ v1pee ” and was the founder of the Russian hacker group nerf[.]ru

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

One of the domains registered in 2006 to the address unforgiven57@mail.ru ANALYSIS As KrebsOnSecurity opined on Mastodon earlier this week , it makes a lot of sense for cybersecurity researchers and law enforcement alike to focus attention on the top players in the crypting space — for several reasons. antivirusxp09[.]com).

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