Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. The official Punchmadedev account on Instagram links to many of the aforementioned rap videos and tutorials on cybercriming, as well as to Punchmadedev’s other profiles and websites.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Early in his career (circa 2000) Shakhmametov was known as “ v1pee ” and was the founder of the Russian hacker group nerf[.]ru

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Identity Theft 121

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

Fraudulent schemes or hacking websites, social network accounts and corporate IT infrastructure all qualify as dirty jobs. The most in-demand professionals on the dark web were developers: this specialization accounted for 61% of total ads. Dirty jobs are illegal and often present a criminal offense.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

How do you stop a half billion dollars in cryptocurrency from being stolen? There are a lot of public chains, and there are alot of cryptocurrencies. And, bridging across cryptocurrencies, that sometimes exposes a lot of vulnerabilities. In other words, these cryptocurrencies were essentially stolen. million dollars.

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Hacking Cryptocurrency Accountability Banking 52

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If they know enough about the target’s infrastructure, they can create malware tailored to the specific configuration of the target’s network architecture, such as important files, administrative accounts and critical systems. If the script detects that it’s running on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista, it shuts down.

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