Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from the Japanese digital currency exchange Zaif exchange. a Japanese cryptocurrency firm, hackers have compromised its Zaif exchange and have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Monacoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. reads the report.

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MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Firsov was arrested at the John F.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB have detected the activity of Gustuff a mobile Android Trojan, which includes potential targets of customers in leading international banks, users of cryptocurrency services, popular ecommerce websites and marketplaces. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. Thus, 60% of the total amount was stolen from Coincheck , a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. The authorities arrested tens of individuals in Spain and Romania. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

KPOT Stealer is a “stealer” malware that focuses on exfiltrating account information and other data from web browsers, instant messengers, email, VPN, RDP, FTP, cryptocurrency, and gaming software. The KPOT Stealer was written in C/C++, it was offered in the cybercrime underground as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

They also activated files that forced infected computers to register email accounts with AOL.” “The defendants registered more than 100,000 email accounts using this method. The defendants would then steal account credentials. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. In 2017, when cryptocurrencies were gaining momentum, their record-breaking capitalization and a spike in Bitcoin’s exchange rate led to dozens of attacks on cryptocurrency services.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

An operation coordinated by Interpol, dubbed Goldfish Alpha, dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency network operating in Southeast Asia. Interpol announced that it has coordinated a successful international operation aimed at removing cryptocurrency miners that infected routers located in Southeast Asia. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. Then the malware uses the Mimikatz tool to get the user account credentials from the machine and use it to attempt lateral movements inside the target network. “ Propagation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

West carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies since 2015, he stole financial data of tens of thousands of customers and then sold that information on cybercrime underground forums. “He would then convert the profit made from selling financial details online into cryptocurrency , and store these in multiple accounts.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Sanix has been active on the cybercrime underground at least since 2018, he focuses in the sale of stolen data from organizations. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, today it has arrested five Polish hackers who were members of the Infinity Black hacking group. The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2019

The Wall Street Market marketplace was considered one of the most important points of aggregation in the cybercrime underground for trading in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as digital goods (i.e. ” The anonymity of the payment was ensured by using Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrencies. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

While investigating the malware distribution, the researchers noticed the use of an infrastructure known to belong to cybercrime group TA505. Russian TA505 hacking group , aka Evil Corp , has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. Upon executing the MSI file, a PowerShell command is launched.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Accesses to compromised websites are precious commodities in the cybercrime underground, crooks can use them to carry out a broad range of illicit activities. High-value targets would have higher prices, for example, to inject payment card sniffers, lower ranking sites are usually used for cryptocurrency mining or spam campaign.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

He gained access to his phone number and used it impersonate the executive and steal $500,000 from two accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini. But he wasn’t quick enough to stop a hacker from draining $500,000 from two separate accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini, according to Santa Clara officials.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

million worth of the cryptocurrency through SIM Swapping attacks. Once obtained a new SIM, crooks can operate with the victim’s mobile account, intercepting or initiating calls, accessing SMSs (including authorizations codes sent by bank and cryptocurrency exchanges) and to authorize transactions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Clearly the access to the CEO account allowed the hacker to breach the company. Gunton tricked a mobile telco’s operator into adding a call forwarding number to Coburn’s mobile account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. Group-IB Secure Portal also managed to identify over 100,000 accounts with three or more logins from the same device. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MAY 8, 2019

Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins ) from Binance. There may also be additional affected accounts that have not been identified yet.”

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

“A conservative estimation of USD 1 billion was transacted in the market since its creation in 2014. Transactions were paid in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The Loki Bot attacks started in July and aimed at stealing passwords from browsers, messaging applications, mail and FTP clients, and cryptocurrency wallets. “The malware’s key objective is to steal passwords from browsers, messaging applications, mail and FTP clients, and cryptocurrency wallets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, purchasers of Bitcoin wallets — the software programs that facilitate storing someone’s cryptocurrency-related wealth — usually have one priority topping their lists: security. Cryptocurrency Wallet Owners Cannot Be Too Careful. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JANUARY 13, 2019

bit” C&C domains was added to protect the C2 infrastructure, this TLD is associated with the cryptocurrency Namecoin and requires special DNS servers that the malware uses (dedsolutions[.]bit, ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – TA505, cybercrime).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Trend Micro researchers spotted a piece of Linux cryptocurrency miner, dubbed Skidmap that leverages kernel-mode rootkits to evade the detection. The crypto-miner set up a secret master password that uses to access any user account on the system. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Links account for 29%, while attachments—for 71%. Another trend was disguising malware in emails.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

They were helped in one of their attacks by members of the group Anunak , which had not conducted at attack of this kind since 2014. At present, only three criminal groups— Buhtrap2 , RTM , and Toplel —steal money from the accounts of legal entities in Russia. They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Threat actors are leveraging the flaw in the attempt to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner. Volexity has observed at least one threat actor attempting to exploit CVE-2018-11776 en masse in order to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Investigators would later determine that a variant of the malware used in the Target breach was used in 2014 to steal 56 million payment cards from Home Depot customers. Chang’s.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

We expect that that other APTs like Silence , MoneyTaker , and Cobalt will stage multiple attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in the near future,” – says Dmitry Volkov. Users’ accounts from government resources are either sold on underground forums or used in targeted attacks on government agencies for the purpose of espionage or sabotage.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

This could be the possibility of a modeling contract; online game credits or codes; or money, cryptocurrency, and gift cards. Caregivers may also want to review the settings on a young person’s social media accounts with them. Keeping accounts private can prevent predators from gathering their personal information.

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