Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

A new cyber heist made the headlines, the victim is Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange and hackers stole $19 Million. Hackers have stolen nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange. BREAKING Bithumb is being hacked, at its EOS cold storage level!!!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

The Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself to protect the funds of its users and avoid that hackers steal them exploiting a flaw in its Agama wallet. The story I’m going to tell you is amazing, the Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself after discovered a backdoor in its Agama wallet. JavaScript library.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two Russian nationals in connection with masterminding the 2014 digital heist of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

DDoS extortionists are blackmailing Australian banks asking for payments of large sums in Monero cryptocurrency threatening DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are threatening Australian banks of DDoS attacks if they will not pay large sums in Monero cryptocurrency. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. On July 10, agents of the SBU raided the nuclear power plant and discovered the equipment used by the employees to mining cryptocurrency.

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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.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 30, 2018

Gox Bitcoin exchange hack in 2014, and may be largest-ever cryptocurrency theft. Losses at Japanese exchange Coincheck surpass those of the Mt.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

The Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum suffered a security breach, information belonging to more than 260,000 users was stolen by hackers. Hackers stole information related to over 260,000 users of the Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against three members of Lazarus Group for a wide range of financially-motivated hacks against private businesses that authorities said were designed to steal $1.3 billion in currency and cryptocurrency and further other strategic interests for the North Korean government.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that hide the code to hijack cryptocurrency wallets. Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that contain the code to steal sensitive information and hijack cryptocurrency wallets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Another cryptocurrency exchange announced to have suffered a theft, this time is the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. It has happened again, crooks stole funds from another cryptocurrency exchange, this time the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the infected systems. Cryptocurrency malware continues to be a privileged choice for crooks and the number of victims is rapidly growing. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. Security firms spotted several hacking campaigns aimed at compromising websites to install JavaScript-based Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining scripts and monetize their efforts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Cryptojacking, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission , is the use of JavaScript code to capture cryptocurrencies in users’ browsers without asking permission. LW: So cryptocurrency got discovered as the ideal payment vehicle for ransomware. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. It was insane.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

IOTA Foundation behind the IOTA cryptocurrency was forced to shut down its entire network following a cyber attack that resulted in the theft of funds. In response to the incident, the IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the IOTA cryptocurrency , has decided to take down its entire network. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

Since April, the gang has started accepting the Monero cryptocurrency instead of Bitcoin to make it harder investigation by law enforcement agencies. 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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A security duo composed of Saleem Rashid and Ryan Castellucci demonstrated that it is possible to hack the John McAfee’s Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet. Today let’s discuss John McAfee ’s cryptocurrency wallet, the Bitfi wallet, defined by the popular cyber security expert “unhackable.” who would have thought it!?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

On Thursday, US authorities arrested two crooks charging them with stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency from at least 10 victims using SIM swapping. American law enforcement has declared war to sim swapping scammers and announced the arrest of two individuals for stealing $550,000 in Cryptocurrency. In May, the U.S. 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 -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations managing supercomputers across Europe reported their systems have been compromised to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Crooks have compromised supercomputers across Europe to deploy cryptocurrency miners, incidents have been already reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. SecurityAffairs – supercomputers, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the last 18 months, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Kaspersky researchers have analyzed the attacks carried out by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group in the past 18 months and confirmed their interest in banks and cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns conducted by North Korea-linked APT groups against two cryptocurrency exchanges. In the second attack, threat actors stole $2.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Someone has transferred almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet to another wallet. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. SecurityAffairs – TalkTalk, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The same vulnerabilities in the Salt platform have been exploited during the weekend to hack the infrastructure of Lineageos. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” “An interesting characteristic of the attack is that it uses a cryptocurrency miner that it is being built from scratch instead of an existing one.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited to deliver Windows and Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges. According to Martin, other cryptocurrency organizations were hit by similar attacks. “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

million) cryptocurrency theft. million) cryptocurrency theft. The cyber criminals carried out typosquatting attacks by spoof or setting up a clone of a well-known online cryptocurrency exchange, in an attempt to trick users into providing their login credentials. SecurityAffairs – cryptocurrency theft, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

A new piece of malware appeared in the threat landscape, dubbed BlackSquid it targets web servers with several exploits to deliver cryptocurrency miners. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! SecurityAffairs – BlackSquid , hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Italy-based cryptocurrency exchange Altsbit announced that it has suffered a security breach that led to the theft of its customer’s funds. Dear users, Unfortunately we have to notify you with the fact that our exchange was hacked during the night and almost all funds from BTC, ETH, ARRR and VRSC were stolen.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2018

Google has updated the Play Store Developer Policy page to ban mobile mining apps that mine cryptocurrencies using the computational resources of the devices. Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, many legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. As the crimeware threat actors in Windows take advantage of the cryptocurrency trend, they too seem to want to expand their reach, thus also ended up targeting Mac users.” update.zip.”

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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 Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2019, a hacking group calling itself "The Community" paid bribes to three phone company employees, Jarratt White and Robert Jack, both 22 year-olds working at phone stores in Tucson, Arizona, and Fendley Joseph, a 28 year-old in Murrietta, California, to carry out SIM swaps for their group. You decide.

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