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Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was “Commander X”, a member of the People’s Liberation Front (PLF) associated with Anonymous hacktivism. 47-year-old Christopher Doyon has entered a not guilty plea to charges of “conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, and […]

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DigiNotar — the CA that got hacked — announced bankruptcy yesterday (read the release). This is a very clear case where a company folded because it was hacked. However, this is not the first time something similar has happened. Earlier this year an Australian hosting provider called Distribute.IT was badly hacked and had no recoverable […]

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