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The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as “911 S5.” Researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke revealed almost two years ago, in June 2022, that this illegitimate residential proxy service lured potential victims by…
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation…
Read MoreThe U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as “911 S5.” Researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke found almost two years ago that this illegitimate residential proxy service lured potential victims by offering free…
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The $500 million acquisition of QRadar SaaS by Palo Alto Networks is expected to close later this year, bringing big changes for partners and customers. What’s Next For QRadar Partners, Customers The planned $500 million acquisition of IBM’s QRadar SaaS business by cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is expected to close later this year, bringing…
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Proposals should try to “capture and leverage the thought patterns of expert hackers as they analyze code for vulnerabilities. Using passive, non-invasive biometric sensing, and an instrumented research environment, [proposals] will map experts’ cognitive states to specific elements — e.g., functions, variables — with minimal disruption to their normal workflow. This process will capture expert…
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‘I’ve given 25 years of my channel career to the channel and the channel paid it forward when I needed them to,’ says Maryann Pagano, CEO of BlackHawk Data LLC. In 2018, Maryann Pagano parted ways with her employer of 15 years but did not leave on good terms. In her late forties, she had…
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A 31-year-old Russian national named Evgeniy Doroshenko has been indicted for wire and computer fraud in the United States for allegedly acting as an “initial access broker” from February 2019 to May 2024. An initial access broker (IAB) is a threat actor who breaches corporate networks and then sells that access to other threat actors,…
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Image: Midjourney Microsoft has linked a North Korean hacking group it tracks as Moonstone Sleet to FakePenny ransomware attacks, which have led to millions of dollars in ransom demands. While this threat group’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) largely overlapped with those of other North Korean attackers, it has also slowly adopted novel attack methods,…
Read MoreAtlassian–Confluence Data Center This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 5.2 of Confluence Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.3, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to…
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‘You can choose to judge and define that person to their past or you can choose to accept, empathize and seek to understand,’ says Michelle Cirocco, chief social responsibility for Televerde. “Imagine the worst part of your life and having that always define you,” said Michelle Cirocco. “When you hear somebody else’s story, you have…
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