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

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An American was charged with money laundering while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer service between 2014 and 2017. Larry Dean Harmon (36), from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin while he was operating a Darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service between 2014 and 2017.

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JUNE 9, 2025

The frozen funds include cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other digital assets. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that North Korean information technology (IT) workers obtained illegal employment and amassed millions in cryptocurrency for the benefit of the North Korean government, all as a means of evading U.S.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Belarusian and Cypriot national linked with the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges that can lead maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. “According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.”

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

billion worth of cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.” million in cryptocurrency through this program. trillion won ($1.2

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a sophisticated malware, dubbed StripedFly, that remained under the radar for five years masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner. Further analysis revealed that the malware has been used since at least 2017. The malicious code has a complex modular structure that supports both Linux and Windows.

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MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange. reported the Associated Press. In February, the U.S.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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.” ransomware in May 2017, and carried out extortion and attempted extortion from 2017 through 2020.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer Samourai. Department of Justice (DoJ) has arrested two co-founders of the cryptocurrency mixer Samourai and seized the service. Magistrate Judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania. criminal charges. ” continues the DoJ.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The North Korea-linked APT group BlueNoroff has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with fake MetaMask browser extensions. The North Korea-linked APT group BlueNoroff has been spotted targeting cryptocurrency startups with fake MetaMask browser extensions. The researchers are not aware of the compromise of these companies.

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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. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, DarkGate ) The post DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

The malware is an evolution of a Monero cryptocurrency miner that was first spotted by Unit 42 researchers in 2019. In our analysis, we found Pro-Ocean targeting Apache ActiveMQ (CVE-2016-3088), Oracle WebLogic (CVE-2017-10271) and Redis (unsecure instances).” ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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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. Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States.

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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.” Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017.

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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. Oracle WebLogic Server CVE-2017-10271 – versions 10.3.6.0.0,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 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. The post Russian Alexander Vinnik sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Now, USCYBERCOM shares five more samples, the older one dated 2017 while the rest has been created in 2018. COPPERHEDGE, aka Manuscrypt , has been employed in attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges. The samples belong to the COPPERHEDGE, TAINTEDSCRIBE, and PEBBLEDASH malware families.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

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.

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Security Affairs

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. million at the time of the hack). .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Talos experts noticed that a version released on May 18 included Python versions of EternalBlue ( CVE-2017-0144 ) and EternalRomance ( CVE-2017-0147 ) exploits with a Windows download command line as the payload. The bot used a user-mode rootkit to hide the malicious process and malicious registry entries created.

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JULY 21, 2022

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. PwnRig cryptocurrency miner execution. This month, the experts noticed that the number of infected hosts passed from 2000 to around 30,000. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The authorities seized the stolen funds on November 2021, at the time it was the biggest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency. In August 2017, Bitcoin split into two cryptocurrencies, traditional Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (“BCH”). The US authorities are seeking to forfeit, collectively, approximately 51,680.32473733 Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Kinsing actors often exploited the PHPUnit vulnerability ( CVE-2017-9841 ) and it engaged in fully automated attacks as part of mining cryptocurrency. Recently, observers noticed Kinsing actors exploiting vulnerable Openfire servers.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

According to Proofpoint the group is targeting cryptocurrencies since at least 2017. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week confirmed that in June 2022 the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group and APT38 stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Blockchain company Harmony Horizon Bridge.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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APRIL 26, 2020

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The groups are behind several hacking operations that resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure. Lazarus Group is also considered the threat actors behind the 2018 massive WannaCry attack.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The man, along with other individuals of a gang known as “ thedarkoverlord ,” trafficked in stolen social security numbers. Kaye laundered cryptocurrency obtained from the illegal The Real Deal operation through the mixing service Bitmixer.io. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in February 2017. government agencies,” said U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages. .” reads the first part of two reports published by the experts detailing the DevOps implementation behind the botnet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

The list of the cyberattacks publicly attributed to North Korean nation-state actors, includes: The 2014 Sony Pictures hack , The Bangladesh Bank Heist ( $81 million ), The 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak, FASTCash ATM attacks, The $250 million theft from cryptocurrency exchanges. ” concludes the advisory.

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JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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