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Trik Spam Botnet Leaks 43 Million Email Addresses – Worldwide
Over 43 million email addresses have leaked from the command and control server of a spam botnet, a security researcher has told Bleeping Computer today. The leaky server came to light while a threat intelligence analyst from Vertek Corporation, was looking into a recent malware campaign distributing a version of the Trik Trojan, which was later infecting users with a second-stage payload the GandCrab 3 ransomware. The Vertek researcher discovered that Trik and GandCrab would download the malicious files that infected users’ systems from an online server located on a Russian IP address. The researcher told Bleeping Computer that the group behind this operation misconfigured its server and left its content accessible to anyone accessing the IP directly. On this server, he discovered 2201 text files, labeled sequentially from 1.txt to 2201.txt containing chunks of roughly 20,000 email addresses, each.
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Chemours Ex-Worker Pleads Guilty In China Trade Secrets Case – Delaware, United States
A former employee of a chemical company spun off from the DuPont Co. has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell them to Chinese investors. Former Chemours Co. worker Jerry Jindong Xu, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in New York last August and entered the guilty plea Friday. He faces up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing on June 27. Prosecutors say the conspiracy involved the theft of trade secrets related to sodium cyanide, a chemical most often used to mine gold, silver, and other precious metals. Chemours is the world’s largest producer of sodium cyanide. Authorities have said Xu was aided by an unnamed co-conspirator, a longtime DuPont employee who left the company in 2014 to open a mining consulting business.
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House Bill Would Permanently Authorize Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership – Worldwide
The Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP), which was created in 2005 to help West African nations counter terrorism and extremism, would be permanently authorized under a bill introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Act of 2018, H.R. 6018, would codify the TSCTP as an interagency program. Its goal would be to enhance the short- and long-term capabilities of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia to address terrorist threats. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Bill Keating (D-MA) introduced the bill. “While terrorism is not new to Africa, ISIS fighters are moving South following the defeat of the caliphate into a region already encountering threats from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram, and Al Shabaab,” McCaul, chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, said.
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