And then there are booter store operators like John Dobbs, a 32-year-old computer science graduate student living in Honolulu, Hawaii. For at least a decade until late last year, Dobbs openly operated IPStresser[.]com, a popular and powerful attack-for-hire service that he registered with the state of Hawaii using his real name and address. Likewise, the domain was registered in Dobbs’s name and hometown in Pennsylvania.
The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. Dobbs’s resume doesn’t name his booter service, but in it he brags about maintaining websites with half a million page views daily, and “designing server deployments for performance, high-availability and security.”
In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice seized Dobbs’s IPStresser website and charged him with one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions. Prosecutors say his service attracted more than two million registered users, and was responsible for launching a staggering 30 million distinct DDoS attacks.
According to blockchain analysis company Elliptic, the North Korean cybercrime
posse has obfuscated transfers amounting to roughly $100 million in pillaged
Bitcoin since October.
Crypto mixers, also referred to as tumblers, are a service that blends many
users’ crypto assets, attempting to obfuscate the owners and origins
According to a data broker called ‘IntelBroker,’ the food delivery service was
breached this month, exposing over 1.1 million unique email addresses and order
details including customer names, phone numbers and even delivery notes for
couriers that include residential or office building access codes.
“In approximately February 2023, the Asian and H
Al Toufan – “The Flood” in Arabic – took down the Bahrain International Airport
site on Tuesday, along with the sites of the state-run Bahrain News Agency and
the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce, reports
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The Associated Press.
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Nine of the 77 vulnerabilities are flagged “Critical” in severity, while the
remaining 68 are marked as “Important.” Almost half (37 out of 77) were
classified as Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.
Researchers spotted three zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild,
namely:
* CVE-2023-21715 (CVSS Score:
For almost the month the malware secretly exfiltrated personally identifiable
information (PII) from the company’s network.
The first Pepsi Bottling Ventures knew about the unauthorized access to its
network was on January 10 2023, but it took a further nine days until the
organisation completely shut t
The Californian-based Regal Medical Group says that it suffered a data breach in
December 2022, after malicious hackers accessed information from itself and its
affiliates Affiliated Doctors of Orange County (ADOC) Medical Group, Greater
Covina Medical, and Lakeside Medical Organization.
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