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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Krebs on Security

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

Krebs on Security

Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button. ” In such assaults, the perpetrators leverage unmanaged Domain Name Servers (DNS) or other devices on the Web to create huge traffic floods.

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The answer involved Bitcoin, but also Taleon’s new service.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Necurs Botnet adopts a new strategy to evade detection

Security Affairs

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. ” concludes the post.

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The Story of Manuel’s Java RAT.

Security Affairs

Particularly interesting is the presence of the No-IP domain “manuel.hopto.org”: this domain also resolved Nigerian IP addresses of the 37076-EMTS-NIGERIA-AS, and and the Italian AS1267 back in 2012-2014. Figure 11 – “manuel.hopto.org” last DNSs of C2 of JRat. Conclusions.

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What Is DMARC Email Security Technology?

eSecurity Planet

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?