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JUNE 23, 2021

According to the indictment , the expert earned millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a documentary. The authorities claim that the McAfee failed to file tax returns for incomes related to a period between 2014 and 2018.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers. ” The analysis of the blockchain allowed the US officials to follow the stolen funds from two hacked exchange back to the 280 crypto-currency accounts. .”

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2020

. “Comprised of several layers of members mainly from Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Belgium, the QQAAZZ network opened and maintained hundreds of corporate and personal bank accounts at financial institutions throughout the world to receive money from cybercriminals who stole it from accounts of victims.”

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Once the hackers gained access to a system, they downloaded an initial assm.exe file to achieve persistence and to add a backdoor account for future access. Tencent researchers observed the use of an account with the username “ Default ” and a password of “ @fg125kjnhn987.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Department of Justice charged Park over WannaCry and 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack. billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.” sanctions. .

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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 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. pic.twitter.com/fJ3BwlaHsR — ??????3

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JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016.

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MARCH 26, 2020

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. platform, an automated set-up wizard allowed the owner to upload the products and services offered through the shop and configure the payment process via cryptocurrency wallets. ” “Deer.io

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The Binance cryptocurrency exchange revealed that leaked users’ KYC data were obtained by hackers from a third-party vendor. In July, the hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers stole$41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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 -->. million withdrawn. ” reported the AFP news. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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MARCH 17, 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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. One of these files is, ‘file1.exe,’

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook and Twitter warn of malicious SDK harvesting personal data from its accounts. Upbit cryptocurrency exchange hacked, crooks stole $48.5 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. million worth of ETH.

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MAY 13, 2020

” Since November 2018, the USCYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) is sharing the unclassified malware samples on the CYBERCOM_Malware_Alert VirusTotal account. COPPERHEDGE, aka Manuscrypt , has been employed in attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MAY 6, 2020

The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. They used stolen credentials to gain access to other online accounts that shared the same username and passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

PaloAlto Network warns of the WatchDog botnet that uses exploits to take over Windows and Linux servers and mine cryptocurrency. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. CVE-2014-3120 (Elasticsearch before 1.2) x before 1.4.3)

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MAY 10, 2020

Researchers at security firm Red Canary uncovered a Monero cryptocurrency-mining campaign, tracked as Blue Mockingbird, that exploits the CVE-2019-18935 vulnerability in web applications built on the ASP.NET framework. Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link].

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MARCH 13, 2020

They can prove their identity by answering basic security questions and requesting the cancellation of the old SIM and the activation of a new one. Crooks used the duplicates to receive directly to their phones the second-factor authentication codes used by banks to confirm fraudulent transfers to accounts under theirs control.

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APRIL 19, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

Infected users are also vulnerable to having their credentials, accounts, and other vital data stolen.” This behavior allows the malicious code to replace cryptocurrency addresses, and steal credentials for online services (amoCRM, Apple ID, Google, Paypal, SIPMarket, and Yandex) and payment card information from the Apple Store.

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AUGUST 23, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The attacks also aimed at carrying out other criminal activities, such as the deployment of ransomware and cryptocurrency malware. District Court for the District of Columbia seized hundreds of accounts, domain names, servers, and command and control (C&C) dead drop web pages that the defendants employed in their operations.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ThreatNeedle malware used in this campaign belongs to a malware family known as Manuscrypt, which belongs to the Lazarus group and has previously been seen attacking cryptocurrency businesses.” Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Koshkin and his co-conspirators claimed that their services could be used for malware such as botnets, remote-access trojans, keyloggers, credential stealers and cryptocurrency miners.” .”The websites promised to render malicious software fully undetectable by nearly every major provider of antivirus software.

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APRIL 9, 2019

million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”. Its first data breach was the most disastrous breach that exposed the information of almost three billion users.

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JULY 16, 2020

The malware targets 226 applications to steal account credentials, including Gmail, Google Play services, Uber, Amazon, Netflix and Outlook. The list of targeted apps includes cryptocurrency wallet applications (i.e. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 26, 2020

The malware is able to steal account credentials from browsers and cryptowallet files to hijack cryptocurrency accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. washington.edu imageshack.us

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. France and Germany will block Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 13, 2019

Hackers compromised a Canonical GitHub account, Ubuntu source code was not impacted. UK ICO proposes a $123 million fine for Marriott 2014 data breach. Hackers stole $32 million from Bitpoint cryptocurrency exchange. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’re waiting for a flight what better way to pass the time than logging onto your favourite website, checking your bank account or even doing a bit of online shopping? She is a small business owner, traveler and investor of cryptocurrencies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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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MAY 1, 2023

Russian TA505 hacking group , aka Evil Corp , has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. LOBSHOT targets specific cryptocurrency wallet extensions for Google Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The malware maintains persistence by adding a Registry entry in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

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