CSO Magazine
OCTOBER 25, 2022
According to data from the Rekt leaderboard , cybercriminals have stolen as much as $3 billion of investor funds through 141 various cryptocurrency exploits since January, putting 2022 on track to top 2021 levels of digital currency malfeasance. Comparitech’s cryptocurrency heists tracker indicates that since 2011, hackers have stolen $7.9
Malwarebytes
APRIL 6, 2022
A flurry of bogus domains and scam techniques are spreading their wings. It was rife during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 , with bogus Red Cross websites and email addresses set up to part people from their money. Reports indicate a big run on phishing and scams. Cryptocurrency scamming is rampant.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2022
The cyberattacks against the cryptocurrency industry are a profitable business for threat actors, according to the experts, $12.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen in the last decade. “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18
Identity IQ
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Transactions on the dark web are typically conducted using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to maintain anonymity. Transactions on the dark web are often carried out with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, which are unregulated and difficult to trace back to the user. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 billion in value.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware.
SecureList
MARCH 1, 2021
It stole credentials for various financial systems including online banking applications and cryptocurrency wallets in Brazil. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. The Trojan Ghimob was one of 2020’s most exciting discoveries.
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2020
Thus, the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled last year, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them. CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool. Balance of power.
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