Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. By 2013, a number of Micfo’s customers had landed on the radar of Spamhaus , a group that many network operators rely upon to stem the tide of junk email. Amir Golestan , the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. Troy Woody Jr. left) and Mir Islam, are currently in prison in the Philippines for murder.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2024

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed “ Fin7 ,” known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. authorities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Historic WHOIS records from domaintools.com [a former advertiser on this site] indicate Byaruhanga was the registrant of two domain names tied to this company — ipv4leasing.org and.net — back in 2013. “To say that he had an evident conflict of interest would be a gross understatement.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The fundamental problem with WPAD is the same with Active Directory: Both are technologies originally designed to be used in closed, static, trusted office environments, and neither was built with today’s mobile devices or workforce in mind.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 “I do not think that it was a reason for his arrest,” Artimovich said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Virtualfirefox.com is a domain registered via GoDaddy in 2013 and currently owned by The Mozilla Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation — the makers of the popular Firefox Web browser. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. Yahoo + AOL) ; Oracle ; Tesla Motors ; Time Warner ; US Bank; US Steel Corp.;

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