Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Hackers have stolen more than $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf. Bad news from cryptocurrency industry, hackers have stolen more than $25 million in cryptocurrency from the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf. SecurityAffairs – Uniswap, hacking). me lending platform. liquidity pool.

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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. CVE-2019-11707 is a type confusion vulnerability in Array.pop. to address the recently fixed CVE-2019-11707 zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

North Korea-linked threat actors are behind some of the largest cyberattacks against cryptocurrency exchanges. North Korea-linked APT groups are suspected to be behind some of the largest cyberattacks against cryptocurrency exchanges. billion (2 trillion won) worth of cryptocurrency from multiple exchanges during the past five years.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2024

One of the developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison. Alexey Pertsev (29), one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency. billion U.S. billion U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

Experts warn of a new wave of attacks against cryptocurrency entities, threat actors are using a RAT dubbed Parallax RAT for Infiltration. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Uptycs warns of attacks targeting cryptocurrency organizations with the Parallax remote access Trojan (RAT).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The complaint doesn’t specify which agency portal was hacked, but it does state that the portal included access to law enforcement databases that track narcotics seizures in the United States. federal government portal without authorization.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Researchers have discovered a botnet dubbed PgMiner that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new botnet, tracked as PgMiner, that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

The Department of Justice has charged the two Chinese nationals for laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea-linked APT groups. for helping North Korea-linked hackers in laundering cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency have been stolen by the APT groups from two cryptocurrency exchanges. and Li Jiadong (???),

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Hacking Group Anonymous has declared a cyber war against Russia on Twitter and claimed their latest victim by disrupting the services of Russian Government News Resource RT. The post Hacking group Anonymous declares Cyber War on Russia appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. 02, 2020, pitching O’Connor as a cryptocurrency expert and advisor. I don’t care,” O’Connor told The Times.

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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. — Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Current threat actor activity is incentivized by a broad attack surface represented through high volumes of users and systems, and high potential profits represented through the variety of cryptocurrency offerings. It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

which addresses the CVE-2019-6342 flaw that allows hackers to take control of Drupal 8 sites. is affected by a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-6342, that could be exploited by attackers to take control of Drupal 8 websites. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has also published a security update for the CVE-2019-6342 flaw.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. The Raccoon stealer is written in C++ by Russian-speaking developers who initially promoted it exclusively on Russian-speaking hacking forums.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Just three days after the CVE-2019-6340 flaw in Drupal was addressed, threat actors in the wild started exploiting the issue to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A sixth member associated with an international hacking group known as The Community has been sentenced in connection with a multimillion-dollar SIM swapping conspiracy, the U.S. state of Missouri, who pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft following an indictment in 2019, was sentenced to 10

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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

MAY 2, 2024

Vasinskyi is a REvil ransomware affiliate since at least March 1st, 2019. ” The co-conspirators demanded ransom payments in cryptocurrency and used cryptocurrency exchangers and mixing services to hide their ill-gotten gains. . Vasinskyi was extradited to the U.S. in March 2022.

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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

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. The Government of Pyongyang focuses on crypto hacking to fund its military program following harsh U.N. million in cryptocurrency through this program. 380 billion.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

DoJ announced that Nicholas Truglia (25) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the theft of over $20 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks. Nicholas Truglia and his associates stole a staggering amount of cryptocurrency from the victim through a complex SIM swap scheme.” In May 2019, Terpin won $75.8

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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 Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

The Exfiltration Phase of The Kill Chain of a Cryptocurrency-Based Attack Provides the Greatest Opportunity to Identify Cybercriminals. Cryptocurrency gained through illicit means is less useable than other assets due to the way cryptocurrency systems currently do not fully protect owner identity and allow for only limited liquidity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

At the time of the announcement of the sanctions by OFAC, Tornado Cash was used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus APT)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. FEMALE TARGETS. BAD REACTION. I would laugh at them.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

However, what sets this report apart is the claim that North Korea earns a significant portion of its annual income from cryptocurrency heists conducted through cyber attacks. This information is not entirely new, as many are already aware of the country’s involvement in such activities.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2022

In the 2019 incident, Thompson used her hacking prowess—and insider knowledge of AWS vulnerability scanning—to steal the personal data of more than 100 million people in the U.S. The hacker, operating under the online alias of "erratic," went on to illegally install malware on unlawfully accessed servers to mine for cryptocurrency.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Parth Patel is an entrepreneur who is trying to build a startup in the cryptocurrency space. THE PHONE NUMBER IS KEY Chris is a cryptocurrency hedge fund owner who asked that only his first name be used so as not to paint a bigger target on himself. Some of the many notifications Patel says he received from Apple all at once.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2023

The duo operated the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer that facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Lazarus APT group. According to OFAC, Tornado Cash was used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019.

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