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Russians charged with hacking Mt. Gox exchange and operating BTC-e

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Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011 and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. ” reads the DoJ.

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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

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One of the key significant improvements are support of more software clients (including browser-based cryptocurrency wallets), upgraded credit card (CC) grabber, and additional advanced mechanisms for password storage dump on various platforms to extract credentials and tokens.

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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

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Skynet was first discovered in 2012 and has since grown to become one of the largest botnets in the world. The Godzilla botnet has been active since at least 2021, it was used to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as steal login credentials and mine cryptocurrency.

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US DoJ seizes $3.36B Bitcoin from Silk Road hacker

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“JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace. The authorities seized the stolen funds on November 2021, at the time it was the biggest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency. billion mystery. ” said U.S.