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CSO - Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
Source: http://www.csoonline.com/article/31...eir-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html
PS: some familiar names in here
This is the story of how River City Media (RCM), Alvin Slocombe, and Matt Ferris, accidentally exposed their entire operation to the public after failing to properly configure their Rsync backups.
The data from this well-known, but slippery spamming operation, was discovered by Chris Vickery, a security researcher for MacKeeper and shared with Salted Hash, Spamhaus, as well as relevant law enforcement agencies.
While security practitioners are familiar with spammers and their methods, this story afforded Salted Hash with a rare opportunity to look behind the curtain and view their day-to-day operations.
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Source: http://www.csoonline.com/article/31...eir-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html
PS: some familiar names in here
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