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Prices Are Falling and The Number of Services Is Increasing in Malware-as-a-Service Market
Mar 5, 2013Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals looking to purchase botnets and other tools to mount cyber attacks. The trends in the so-called ...
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Dallas Law Enforcement Authorities Have Arrested Self-Professed Spokesman Barrett Brown
Dec 25, 2012Dallas law enforcement authorities have arrested self-professed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown in what appears to have been a dramatic raid of his apartment late Wednesday night. Barrett was having a live online video chat session with ...
Tags: FBI, Anonymous, US, Barrett Brown
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FBI Arrested Another Suspected Member of Hacking Group LulzSec
Dec 24, 2012The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the now-defunct hacking group LulzSec in connection with a breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems. The 20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera surrendered to US authorities after a ...
Tags: LulzSec, Pictures Entertainment's computer systems, protected computer
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Four UK Youths Acting in Name of Activist Hacking Collective Anonymous Cost Paypal 3.5m
Dec 24, 2012Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
Tags: distributed-denial-of-service, cyber attacks, DDoS attacks
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Ghost Shell Group Published The Log-in Details From 1.6 Million Accounts
Dec 21, 2012The Ghost Shell group, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective has published the log-in details from 1.6 million accounts. The credentials were stolen from a series of hack attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and ...
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Godaddy Websites Resulted in Thousands of Websites Being Brought Down
Dec 17, 2012A member of hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a hack targeting GoDaddy,the world's largest domain name registrar,which has resulted in thousands of websites being brought down. The US service provider hosts ...
Tags: Hacker, Anonymous Attack, Website, Personal Data
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The Campaign Saw Less Significant Attacks Against Mastercard,Visa
Nov 23, 2012A student is standing trial accused of aiding hacking collective Anonymous with an attack against online payment company PayPal which,it is claimed,cost the online payment service£3.5m. The jury at Southwark Crown Court was told how ...
Tags: aiding hacking, online payment company, PayPal, internet piracy
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Anonymous Would Help Increase Public Donations to Wikileaks
Oct 12, 2012Anonymous, the hacking collective, has ended its association with Wikileaks after Julian Assange's whistleblowing website erected a 'selective paywall' to help increase public donations to Wikileaks. Clicking to access a number of the ...
Tags: Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Assad, Wiki
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The FBI on Tuesday Denied That The 1 Million UDIDs
Sep 5, 2012The FBI on Tuesday denied that the 1 million unique device identifiers for Apple devices(UDIDs)posted publicly by hacker group AntiSec on Monday had come from its computers. In a brief statement,the FBI's national press office said the ...
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A 20-Year-Old Man Surrendered to FBI Agents on Tuesday
Aug 29, 2012A 20-year-old man surrendered to FBI agents on Tuesday for his alleged hacking of Sony Pictures, one of a wave of attacks executed last year by the hacking collective LulzSec. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, was indicted by a ...