Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot , a far more secretive and restricted forum where most of the world’s top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the community’s implosion in 2010. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The exploitation of this vulnerability could cause major problems on the Internet. million servers running RPCBIND on the Internet. “We then decided to open a server with port 111 exposed on the Internet, with the same characteristics as those who were attacking us and we were monitoring that server for weeks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock. “P.S. .

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct , an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. HOSTING IN THE WIND.

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