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FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple…
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Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks…
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Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer version of DanaBot was used for espionage, and that many…