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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. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years

Krebs on Security

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. But American and Finnish investigators say Kivimäki’s involvement in cybercrime dates back to at least 2008, when he was introduced to a founding member of what would soon become HTP.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages.

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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

Krebs on Security

Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks. But American and Finnish investigators say Kivimäki’s involvement in cybercrime dates back to at least 2008, when he was introduced to a founding member of what would soon become HTP.

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. com shows that in 2008 it displayed the personal information for a Dmitry Starovikov , who listed his Skype username as “lycefer.” But on Dec. and starovikov[.]com.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” Here’s snippet of Icamis’s ad on Spamdot from Aug. ” We are glad to present you our services! Many are already aware (and are our clients), but publicity is never superfluous.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. Our advantages: 1.

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