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When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger

Krebs on Security

Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. The text has been machine-translated from Russian.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

Security experts say the Russia-based service provider Prospero OOO (the triple O is the Russian version of “LLC”) has long been a persistent source of malicious software, botnet controllers, and a torrent of phishing websites. And BEARHOST has been cultivating its reputation since at least 2019.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. A screenshot of the phishing domain privatemessage dot net.

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

Krebs on Security

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. US phishing domains.US This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S.

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Experts believe that Russian Gamaredon APT could fuel a new round of DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

360 Qihoo reported DDoS attacks launched by APT-C-53 (aka Gamaredon) conducted through the open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC. “We found that multiple C2 servers distributed an open-source DDoS Trojan program LOIC compiled by.net from March 4th to 5th, 2022.” ” reads the analysis published by 360 Qihoo. .

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How cyberattacks are targeting video gamers and companies

Tech Republic Security

Game players are affected by phishing campaigns, while gaming companies are getting hit by DDoS attacks, says Akamai.

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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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