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ICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups

December 6, 2023 0 Comments catalin cimpanu, GDPR, icann, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, rdrs, registration data request service, security tools

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:51:58 +0000

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced a centralized online service designed to make it easier for researchers, law enforcement and others to request the information directly from registrars.

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Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

February 2, 2022 0 Comments @cookiedays, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, binrs, blackcat ransomware, blackmatter, Breadcrumbs, catalin cimpanu, darkside, duckerman, duckermanit, flashpoint, jason hill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, paul roberts, ramp, recorded future, reversinglabs, revil, sergey duck, sergey kryakov, sergey penchikov, smiseo, the record, tox, varonis, ybcat

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:18:36 +0000

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “BlackCat”), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by the developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant.