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Europol Shuts Down The Largest Freelance Cyber Attack Website
Cyber Attack Service Website Gets Shutdown By Europol You can get pretty much anything on the internet these days. A new pair of shoes, video games and even, apparently, the services of hackers. One such website webstresser.org offered a service which allowed people to pay for cyber attacks. For a…
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Europol Wants to Track and Handle Ransomware
When it comes to viruses and malware, ransomware is one of the nastier versions. Taking people’s prized memories and work with approaching deadlines, the ransomware often locks these and the entire operating system behind a layer of encryption that makes it nearly impossible to get without paying the fee that…
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European Police Get New Cyber Powers
When it comes to cyber security there is a big problem, it’s not that it’s an underdeveloped and underappreciated area for law enforcement, those areas are being worked on with countries like Australia funding their cyber security projects. The problem is that cyber crime is borderless, there is no start…
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292 Domain Names Seized Over Counterfeit Goods
Europol and US authorities have seized 292 domains linked to selling counterfeit goods. Those domains no longer link to the sites in question and now display a page educating visitors about counterfeit goods. The operation, for which no arrests have yet been made, was done in an attempt to avoid consumers…
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Tor Raid: 16 Arrested, 410 Underground Sites Hit
European and US authorities have conducted raids over the weekend, seizing 27 websites and arresting 16 people in an order to target illegal black market servicing websites. US authorities claim that this global project was the largest law enforcement action completed targeted directly at what is known as the “Tor…
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Suspect Arrested For Creation Of Blackhole Malware Exploit Kit
The suspected creator of the advanced malware tool Blackhole has been arrested. The man taken into custody is suspected of being the owner of the online alias “Paunch”, the name used by the creator of the Blackhool and Cool exploit kids that were used to attack flaws in Java, Flash,…
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