Tech Republic Security

JULY 21, 2023

The Europol report also reported on cybercriminals' use of cryptocurrencies and how their techniques are more sophisticated. However, there was good cybersecurity news, too.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What cyberthreats for business will be the greatest in 2023? The ongoing geopolitical storm brings not only classical cyberthreats for business, but also unpredictable risks and ‘black swans’ The main problem for 2023 will be supply-chain stability and cybersecurity. Threat modeling approaches will be changed in 2023.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Crypto platform Orbit Chain suffered a cyberattack, threat actors have stolen more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain has suffered a security breach that has resulted in the theft of more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. The unauthorized transactions began on December 31, 2023.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A look back on the year 2022 and what to expect in 2023. This report assesses how accurately we predicted the developments in the financial threats landscape in 2022 and ponder at what to expect in 2023. Cryptocurrency targeted attacks. These are attractive aspects that cybercrime groups will be unable to resist.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

CrowdStrike researchers discovered the first-ever cryptocurrency mining campaign aimed at Dero mining since February 2023. It claims to offer improved privacy, anonymity and higher monetary rewards compared to other cryptocurrencies. The campaign started in February 2023 and originated from three servers based in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. The law enforcement confiscated about 94,000 euros worth of cryptocurrencies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2024

One of the developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison. Alexey Pertsev (29), one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency. billion U.S. billion U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has laundered $900 million worth of cryptocurrency, Elliptic researchers reported. North Korea-linked Lazarus Group laundered $900 Million in cryptocurrency between July 2022 and July 2023. ” reads the report published by Elliptic. ” reads the report published by Elliptic.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Belarusian and Cypriot national linked with the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges that can lead maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. BTC-e was popular in the cybercrime ecosystem, it was an illegal platform because it was not registered as a money services business with the U.S. million withdrawn.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raised some serious concerns about the possibility of a massive $40 million cryptocurrency heist orchestrated by malicious actors linked to North Korea, specifically the Lazarus Group. This cryptocurrency, derived from multiple heists, is currently stored in six different Bitcoin wallets.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

million) worth of cryptocurrencies via mining activities. million) in cryptocurrencies.” million) in cryptocurrencies.” In cryptojacking scheme, threat actors gain unauthorized access to a cloud environment and abuse its computational power to mine cryptocurrencies. ” continues the press release.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Persistent ransomware threats, increasing risk to critical infrastructure, state-sponsored activity, more bad actors, and new, disruptive technologies are the five cyber threat narratives noted in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024 recently released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

” The co-conspirators demanded ransom payments in cryptocurrency and used cryptocurrency exchangers and mixing services to hide their ill-gotten gains. In a related matter, in 2023, the Department concluded the forfeiture of millions of dollars’ worth of ransom payments through two connected civil forfeiture cases.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 27, 2023

In a significant victory against cybercrime, Joseph James O'Connor, a U.K. citizen known by the moniker "PlugwalkJoe," has been sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in a wide range of cybercrimes. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York divided the charges against O'Connor into two separate cases.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Qakbot/Qbot was once again the top malware loader observed in the wild in the first six months of 2023. Source: Reliaquest.com.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Gox exchange and operating BTC-e Japanese Pharmaceutical giant Eisai hit by a ransomware attack Clop ransomware gang was testing MOVEit Transfer bug since 2021 Stealth Soldier backdoor used is targeted espionage attacks in Libya Researchers published PoC exploit code for actively exploited Windows elevation of privilege issue Experts detail a new Kimsuky (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“A Russian, suspected of having recovered in cryptocurrencies the money taken from French victims of the powerful Hive ransomware , dismantled in January, was arrested last week, AFP learned on Tuesday December 12 from the judicial police.” anti-cybercrime (Ofac).” anti-cybercrime (Ofac).”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. ” T-Mobile has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In May 2023, U.S. In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity published Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka,’ which followed clues from Wazawaka’s many pseudonyms and contact details on the Russian-language cybercrime forums back to a 31-year-old Mikhail Matveev from Abaza, RU. An FBI wanted poster for Matveev.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In March of 2023, we reported how the German Regional Police and the Ukrainian National Police, with support from Europol, the Dutch Police, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), apprehended two suspects and seized computer equipment. Cryptocurrency investigators use specialized strategies to track down criminals.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, we will first assess our predictions for 2023 , and then, try to figure out which trends are coming in 2024. Review of last year’s (2023) predictions: how we fared Web3 and the rise of threats: True. We highlighted the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and anticipated an increase in crypto scams.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers devised an attack technique to extract ChatGPT training data Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records Expert warns of Turtle macOS ransomware US govt sanctioned North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky Black Basta Ransomware gang accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022 Apple addressed 2 new (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“To pay, users of the darknet marketplace used the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero and Zcash. “Certain cryptocurrency transactions from a cluster or group of cryptocurrency addresses used by Kingdom were traced to cryptocurrency wallets held in the name of BILL. .”

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

IT threat evolution in Q2 2023 IT threat evolution in Q2 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q2 2023. While investigating an infection of a cryptocurrency company in Southeast Asia, we found Gopuram coexisting on target computers with AppleJeus , a backdoor attributed to the Lazarus.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company suspended deposits and withdrawals immediately after the discovery of the security breach that took place early in the morning of September 23, 2023. 25, 2023, here are the Top 10 Hacks in 2023. 25, 2023, here are the Top 10 Hacks in 2023. 23, 2023, making it the largest crypto hack this year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Users on Stake.com typically do not deal with traditional currencies, instead they deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies to and from their betting account. Account balances can be withdrawn in the equivalent value of cryptocurrency and then deposited back into the user’s personal cryptocurrency wallet. User funds are safe.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that on May 4, 2023, someone unleashed a spam torrent targeting users on these Mastodon communities via “private mentions,” a kind of direct messaging on the platform.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Now Abyss Locker also targets VMware ESXi servers Russian APT BlueBravo targets diplomatic entities with GraphicalProton backdoor CoinsPaid blames North Korea-linked APT Lazarus for theft of $37M worth of cryptocurrency Monitor Insider Threats but Build Trust First Zimbra fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2023-38750 in ZCS DepositFiles exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2024

Threat actors exploit a recent Windows SmartScreen bypass flaw CVE-2023-36025 to deliver the Phemedrone info stealer. Trend Micro researchers uncovered a malware campaign exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-36025 (CVSS score 8.8) ” The malicious URL files exploiting CVE-2023-36025 reference Discord or other cloud services. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

The operation was conducted by the Polish Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime with the support of Europol, the FBI, and law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT). zlotys and money in the amount of over 145 thousand. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

Illicit Telegram Communities Dismantling of an encrypted network sends shockwaves through organised crime groups across Europe TSMC Says Supplier Hacked After Ransomware Group Claims Attack on Chip Giant Malware Trojanized Super Mario Game Installer Spreads SupremeBot Malware Initial research exposing JOKERSPY Who is 8BASE?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A cybercriminal who goes by the handle RastaFarEye has been advertising DarkGate Loader on cybercrime forums since June 16, 2023. Once active, the malware can be used for several malicious activities like remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing.

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