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Hackers breached four prominent underground cybercrime forums

Security Affairs

A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. No other information looked to be compromised in the attack.”

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Exclusive: Lithuania under cyber-attack after the ban on Russian railway goods

Security Affairs

Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web. June 20th one of the units of Cyber Spetnaz called “Zarya” has announced the attack against www.mna.gov.lv Pierluigi Paganini.

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Europol lifts the lid on cybercrime tactics

Malwarebytes

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. The Russian conflict with Ukraine led to a significant boost in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against EU targets.

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DDoS attacks and 5G: everything you need to know

Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity geeks may already know this historical tidbit… The first DDoS attack occurred back in 1999, when a computer at the University of Minnesota suddenly came under attack from a network of 114 other computers infected with a malicious script called Trin00.

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This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime

Security Boulevard

The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Radware Blog. The post This was H1 2022 – Part 1 – The Fight Against Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. To make matters worse, there was a lack of skilled security professionals who could […].

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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The operator of DDoS-for-hire service pleads guilty

Security Affairs

Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The list of illegal DDoS-for-hire services operated by the man includes ExoStress.in (“ ExoStresser ”), QuezStresser.com, Betabooter.com (“ Betabooter ”), Databooter.com, Instabooter.com, Polystress.com, and Zstress.net.

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