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Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

Krebs on Security

government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan ), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers.

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

Krebs on Security

Selectel, Netwarm UK, Beget, Timeweb and DDoS-Guard). The Russian government’s embrace of cryptocurrency was a remarkable pivot: Bloomberg notes that as recently as January 2022, just weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the central bank proposed a blanket ban on the use and creation of cryptocurrencies.

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Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

Krebs on Security

government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. government overall, nor to the US public.” domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) “ US domains were also used to attack foreign government operations: six.US is overseen by the U.S.

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

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requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than previously requested by the states, such as images of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service. To screen out fraudsters, ID.me

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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) government agencies. Or so concludes The Interisle Consulting Group , which gathers phishing data from multiple industry sources and publishes an annual report on the latest trends. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US US phishing domains.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline. Festi also was the botnet used in the DDoS attack that sent Vrubelvsky to prison for two years in 2013.

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SSNDOB marketplace shut down by global law enforcement operation

Malwarebytes

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts. SSNDOB attempted to ward off a permanent shut down by spreading the data across four different URLs.

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