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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

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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.

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

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Sometime around 2013, Taleon launched a partnership with a money transfer business called pm2btc[.]me. Those include the 2013 breach at Target and the 2014 breach at Home Depot , intrusions that exposed more than 100 million payment card records. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

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Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013. SWAT agreed to transfer the business in exchange for 30 percent of the net profit over the ensuing six months. ” There are two clues supporting the conclusion that Apathyp and Fearlless are the same person.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

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” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in Over the years he’s had several partners in the project, including two very high-profile cybercriminals (or possibly just one, as we’ll see in a moment) who until recently operated under the hacker aliases “ upO ” and “ Lebron.”

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

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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. Spamhaus says it ultimately traced the domains advertised in those spam emails back to Adconion Direct , a U.S.

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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

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By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

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In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 Festi also was the botnet used in the DDoS attack that sent Vrubelvsky to prison for two years in 2013. RedEye also was the administrator of Crutop , a Russian language forum and affiliate program that catered to thousands of adult webmasters.

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