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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

BlackTech is a Chinese APT group that has been active since at least 2010 and that known for conducting cyber espionage campaigns in Asia aimed at entities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Firmware Telecommunications System Administration Malware 137

Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive.

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Government Marketing Internet Internet 285

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the malicious traffic generated with the technique is greater than the once associated with the use of memcached, a service that does not require authentication but has been exposed on the internet by inexperienced system administrators.

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DDOS Internet Internet System Administration 111

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. Branching attacks.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. “APT10 often attacked a service provider’s system by “spear-phishing” – sending company employees emails designed to trick them into revealing their passwords or installing malware.

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