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The Operations of a Cyber Arms Dealer
An anonymous reader writes "FireEye researchers have linked eleven distinct APT cyber espionage campaigns previously believed to be unrelated (PDF), leading them to believe that there is a shared operation that supplies and maintains malware tools and weapons used in them. The eleven campaigns they tied together were detected between July 2011 and September 2013, but it's possible and very likely that some of them were active even before then. Despite using varying techniques, tactics, and procedures, the campaigns all leveraged a common development infrastructure, and shared — in various combinations — the same malware tools, the same elements of code, binaries with the same timestamps, and signed binaries with the same digital certificates."
makin' money, gettin' paid!!
I'm sure it's actually a set of logic trees so elaborately woven together as to monitor the news and manipulate people into carrying out it's programmed goals, put in place by a disgruntled brain cancer ridden game developer, coordinating these "cyber arms dealer" groups. Naturally, bitcoins are the darknet credits...
IMO it's part of an undeclared war on the Internet, funded by the intelligence-security complex, who need to reign in and control the Internet. The usual structure is official organizations (NSA, GCQ) funding subcontractors (like Stratfor) who fund off-the-books teams to build up armed capacity, attack targets to create a climate of fear, and to blackmail third parties into cooperation. Your tax dollars hard at work, keeping the Children Safe from cyberterrorists, hackers, and criminals, aka an independent Internet.
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EU is #3!
Malware Targeted industries
19% - High-tech
17% - Financial services
11% - Telecommunications
10% - Federal government
9% - Energy/Utilities/Petroleum refining
6% - Aerospace/Defense/Airlines
5% - Chemicals/Manufacturing/Mining
etc...
at long last we're in popular crowd and those stupid jocks didn't even make the list! sweet justice is mine!
now if you will excuse me, the floozies from back in high school are flocking my way.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
It's a big part of the "WHY" of why I built this application (since it not only blocks ads, good & bad/malicious script bearing - BUT, it also blocks KNOWN sites serving up malware/malscript + various forms of botnet C&C Servers too):
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
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(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
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A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775
B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,
C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
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* "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein
(Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see))
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** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!
(Vs. slowing down SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE in addons which slow them down more: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts - A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"
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Government and corporate goons have overreached their authority so much, and infringed on peoples rights so much, that some kind of military conflict was bound to happen. Is it really that surprising that something like this is going on?
I for one prefer a cyber war, over a real shooting war which my children would see with their own eyes.
If the damn politicians and corporation would simply stop infringing on people's rights, there would be alot less problems, and lower chance of conflict. DUH!
The term "cyber war" really annoys me. Let's save the use of the word "war" for conflict in which real people are killed and "weapon" for devices that are used to kill real people or destroy real property. I hate propaganda bullshit.
Of course there are links, there are even companies specialized on it