Collaborate Disseminate
The accused ringleader of a cyber fraud gang that allegedly rented out access to a criminal cloud hosting service known as “Avalanche” is now a fugitive from justice following a bizarre series of events in which he shot at Ukrainian police, was arrested on cybercrime charges and then released from custody. Continue reading ‘Avalanche’ Crime Ring Leader Eludes Justice
More than 800,000 domains were seized, sinkholed , or blocked in ‘Operation Avalanche’, an effort by law enforcement authorities and researchers in 30 countries. Continue reading Authorities Just Shut Down One of the World’s Largest Malware Networks
At one point, Avalanche network was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks. Continue reading Legal raids in five countries seize botnet servers, sinkhole 800,000+ domains
In what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they’ve dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks. Continue reading ‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled
In what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they’ve dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks. Continue reading ‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled
Symantec plays part in takedown of the Avalanche malware-hosting network.Read More Continue reading Avalanche malware network hit with law enforcement takedown
Symantec plays part in takedown of the Avalanche malware-hosting network.Read More Continue reading Avalanche malware network hit with law enforcement takedown
Symantec plays part in takedown of the Avalanche malware-hosting network.Read More Continue reading Avalanche malware network hit with law enforcement takedown
A few weeks ago I asked the Hackaday community for some help and advice in buying a new budget oscilloscope. Thank you very much to those of you who responded both here online and in person among my friends closer to home. I followed the overwhelming trend in the advice I received, and bought myself a Rigol DS1054z, an instrument with which I am very happy. It’s a nominally a 50 MHz scope, but there’s a software hack that can bring it up to 100 MHz. How fast can it go?
This question became a mini scope-shootout after a conversation …read more
There are times when you make the effort to do a superlative job in the construction of an electronic project. You select the components carefully, design the perfect printed circuit board, and wait for all the pieces to come together as they come in the mail one by one. You then build it with tender care and attention, printing solder paste and placing components by hand with a fastidious attention to detail. There follows an anxious wait by the reflow oven as mysterious clouds of smoke waft towards the smoke detector, before you remove your batch of perfect boards and …read more
Continue reading A Quickly-Hacked-Together Avalanche Pulse Generator
