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IT threat evolution Q3 2024

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Tropic Trooper spies on government entities in the Middle East The threat actor Tropic Trooper, active since 2011, has historically targeted government, healthcare, transportation and high-tech sectors in Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. All the active sub-campaigns host the initial downloader on Dropbox.

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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

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Created by Congress in 2011 to be a clearinghouse of consumer complaints, the CFPB has sued some of the nation’s largest financial institutions for violating consumer protection laws. Also on Friday, the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced on X that a cybersecurity breach led to the theft of more than $1.4 KING TRUMP?

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

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NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru

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New Zealand freezes assets of Russian cyber criminal Alexander Vinnik

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In September, Greek Police have arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik (38) and they accuse the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Alexander Vinnik, the popular cyber criminal goes on trial in Paris

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In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Russian Alexander Vinnik sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering

Security Affairs

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

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The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. CryptBot distributors spread the malware through modified versions of legitimate software such as Google Earth Pro and Google Chrome.

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