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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

Krebs on Security

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Qakbot/Qbot was once again the top malware loader observed in the wild in the first six months of 2023.

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Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

Microsoft warns of Vietnam-linked Bismuth group that is deploying cryptocurrency miner while continues its cyberespionage campaigns. Researchers from Microsoft reported that the Vietnam-linked Bismuth group, aka OceanLotus , Cobalt Kitty , or APT32 , is deploying cryptocurrency miners while continues its cyberespionage campaigns.

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Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers

Security Affairs

The two men also advertised fraud using email accounts created using the stolen credentials on behalf of the victims, mined cryptocurrency and stole money and cryptocurrency through credit card fraud. SecurityAffairs – Romanian Duo, cybercrime). The defendants would then steal account credentials. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FBI identifies 16 Conti ransomware attacks on US health care and first responder networks

SC Magazine

Tavakoli said the FBI report mentions Mimikatz, a tool created in 2007. And elements of Cobalt Strike were also used in the SolarWinds supply chain hack.

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The new DOJ Law Enforcement Crypto Reports (TL;DR)

Security Boulevard

Despite the Executive Order, it is important to note that the Department of Justice did not need the urging of the White House to establish procedures for addressing Cryptocurrency. That original report characterized the illicit uses of cryptocurrency into three broad categories of criminality: .