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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the very first “SSC” identity registered on the cybercrime forums happened in 2009 at the Russian language hacker community Antichat , where SSC registered using the email address adriman@gmail.com.

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Administrators of bulletproof hosting sentenced to prison in the US

Security Affairs

The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015. Stassi conducted several administrative tasks for the group, such as registering webhosting and financial accounts using stolen and/or false personal information.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the IT supply chain

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Carl Alexander – WordPress Community Interview

SiteLock

I write very technical posts around WordPress, around coding, and I’ve been doing a lot of speaking at WordCamps for the past year and a half about those topics like advanced coding topics, or systems administration, or those types of things. I got hired at an agency that was trying to develop their first WordPress site in 2009.

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Cloud Hopper operation hit 8 of the world’s biggest IT service providers

Security Affairs

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

It allowed for package updates to easily be applied to people systems. In February 2009, at Shmoocon, BackTrack 4 “Beta” was released using Ubuntu. A graphical one happened in BackTrack 4 “Pre-Final” in June 2009. The goal was now clear, BackTrack needed an “easy” installer.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Denial-of-Suez attack. pic.twitter.com/gvP2ne9kTR — Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 25, 2021.