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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

In this process authorities seized numerous backup hard drives [containing] a large portion of Orcus Technologies business, and practices,” Rezvesz wrote. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. 2017 analysis of the RAT. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure.

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Researchers identify 223 vulnerabilities used in recent ransomware attacks

SC Magazine

The oldest, CVE-2007-1036 , is a remote code execution vulnerability first discovered back in 2007, which researchers continue to see exploited in the wild. The vast majority of flaws (96%) used in ransomware attacks are years old, having been publicly identified prior to 2019.

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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. Portnox is a private company that specializes in network access security with nearly 1,000 customers and closed a Series A fundraising with Elsewhere Partners for $22 million in 2022.

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