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DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’
DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’ The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s…
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Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?
Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of…
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Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service
Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service Authorities in Pakistan have arrested 21 individuals accused of operating “Heartsender,” a once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operated for more than a decade. The main clientele for HeartSender were organized crime groups that tried to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party,…