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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

May 23, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, andrey nesterenko, arbor, as44477, blue charlie, Breadcrumbs, callisto group, coldriver, comcast cable communications, computer technologies institute ltd, constella intelligence, correctiv.org, ddos-for-hire, ddosia, dfyz, dfyz_bk@bk.ru, don chicho, egihosting, ESET, federal state autonomous educational establishment of additional professional education center of realization of state educational policy and informational technologies, green floid llc, information technology laboratories group, innovation it solutions corp, integrated technologies laboratory, Intel 471, Internet Research Agency, itl llc, jeffrey carr, lockbit, max tulyev, mercenaries team, mirhosting, netassist, netscout, noname057(16), perfect quality hosting, pq hosting plus s.r.l., prolocation, proxyline, raymond dijkxhoorn, Recorded Future, richard hummel, russia's war on ukraine, seaborgium, serverius-as, spamhaus, stark industries solutions, surbl, team cymru, ukrinform

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 23:32:43 +0000

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. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia.

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Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

May 21, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, bssid, david levin, erik rye, IEEE, Latest Warnings, Security Tools, starlink, The Coming Storm, University of Maryland, wi-fi location

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:21:20 +0000

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly available data from Apple to track the location of billions of devices globally — including non-Apple devices like Starlink systems — and found they could use this data to monitor the destruction of Gaza, as well as the movements and in many cases identities of Russian and Ukrainian troops.

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Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

May 14, 2024 admin Acrobat, adobe aero, adobe animate, adobe framemaker, adobe substance 3d painter, cve-2024-30040, cve-2024-30044, cve-2024-30051, Google Chrome, illustrator, immersive labs, kevin breen, macos sonoma 14.5 update, mshtml, qakbot, reader, Satnam Narang, Sharepoint, Tenable, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:19:23 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Windows that are already being exploited in active attacks. There are also important security patches available for macOS and Adobe users, and for the Chrome Web browser, which just patched its own zero-day flaw.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

May 13, 2024 admin 3k@xakep.ru, 7.9521020220, A Little Sunshine, antichat, Breadcrumbs, Cerber, constella intelligence, d.horoshev@gmail.com, dmitrij ju horoshev, dmitry yuriyevich khoroshev, exploit, icq number 669316, Intel 471, khoroshev1@icloud.com, lockbit, lockbitsupp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nerowolfe, pin@darktower.su, putinkrab, ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, sitedev5@yandex.ru, stairwell.ru, tkaner.com, u.s. department of the treasury, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 11:26:27 +0000

Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. LockBit’s leader “LockBitSupp” claims the feds named the wrong guy, saying the charges don’t explain how they connected him to Khoroshev. This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years.

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U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group

May 7, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, dmitry yuryevich khoroshev, lockbitsupp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, russia's war on ukraine, u.s. attorney philip r. sellinger, u.s. department of justice, Дмитрий Юрьевич Хорошев

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 17:36:14 +0000

The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted Khoroshev as the gang’s leader “LockbitSupp,” and charged him with using Lockbit to attack more than 2,000 victims and extort at least $100 million in ransomware payments.

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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

May 6, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, Bill Woodcock, dani cronce, dhcp option 121, dhcp starvation attack, dynamic host control protocol, john kristoff, Latest Warnings, leviathan security, lizzie moratti, Packet Clearing House, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 14:24:47 +0000

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection provided by their VPN without triggering any alerts to the user.

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Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years

April 30, 2024 admin antti kurittu, coldfusion botnet, hack the planet, julius zeekill kivimaki, Lizard Squad, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransom_man, vastaamo psychotherapy center, ville tapio

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:34:32 +0000

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients.

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FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

April 29, 2024 admin AT&T, LocationSmart, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:56:42 +0000

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers — including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent.