Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. ru , and the website web-site[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consider the scenario where an attacker drops a malware-laden USB flash drive in the parking lot of a company he wants to hack into. In 2008, a cyber attack described at the time as “the worst breach of U.S. A USB stick with malware is very likely how U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. Intel 471 found that Kerens used the email address pepyak@gmail.com , which also was used to register Kerens accounts on the Russian language hacking forums Verified and Damagelab. The WHOIS records for autodoska[.]biz

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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