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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

May 23, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrey nesterenko, arbor, as44477, blue charlie, Breadcrumbs, callisto group, coldriver, comcast cable communications, computer technologies institute ltd, constella intelligence, correctiv.org, DDoS-for-hire, ddosia, dfyz, dfyz_bk@bk.ru, don chicho, egihosting, eset, federal state autonomous educational establishment of additional professional education center of realization of state educational policy and informational technologies, green floid llc, information technology laboratories group, innovation it solutions corp, integrated technologies laboratory, intel 471, internet research agency, itl llc, jeffrey carr, lockbit, max tulyev, mercenaries team, mirhosting, netassist, netscout, noname057(16), perfect quality hosting, pq hosting plus s.r.l., prolocation, proxyline, raymond dijkxhoorn, recorded future, richard hummel, russia's war on ukraine, seaborgium, serverius-as, spamhaus, stark industries solutions, surbl, team cymru, ukrinform

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 23:32:43 +0000

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia.

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Undercover reporter tells all after working for a Polish troll farm

November 4, 2019 0 Comments cat@net, disinformation, disinformation campaigns, epr, facebook, fake accounts, fake discussions, fake news, fundacja reporterow, Instagram, internet research agency, investigate europe, IRA, katarzyna pruszkiewicz, kulawa rebelia, macedonia, media monitoring, operation lame rebellion, poland, rebellion on crutches, russia, smear campaigns, Social networks, support campaigns, troll farm, trollery, trolls, twitter, undercover reporter, veles

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:58:41 +0000

Together with her troll colleagues, she managed 200 fake social profiles, promoted clients’ products, and trolled their competitors.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/C6Rb8RS3-Z8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook pulls fake news networks linked to Russia and Iran

October 23, 2019 0 Comments 2020 us presidential elections, blmnews, compromised accounts, facebook, fake accounts, fake news, graphika, Instagram, internet research agency, IRA, iraq, liberty front press, nathaniel gleicher, political ads, russia, russian troll army, russian trolls, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:02:15 +0000

It took down four foreign interference campaigns and announced initiatives to prevent foreign interference in US elections.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kiW_2Z3IoYY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>