Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Threat actors behind the 3CX supply chain attack have targeted a limited number of cryptocurrency companies with a second-state implant. The Gopuram backdoor was first discovered by Kaspersky in 2020, but the researchers observed a surge in the number of infections in March 2023, likely coinciding with the attack on 3CX.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. Data that emerged from the report are worrisome, in 2020 the reported losses exceeded $4.2 ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin was compromised on Christmas Eve, hackers breached its network and gained control of some of its servers. The Russian cryptocurrency exchange was hacked on Christmas Eve, it published a message on its website warning customers to stop using its services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 27, 2023

The first, referred to as the SDNY Case, revolves around a fraudulent scheme in which O'Connor and his co-conspirators employed SIM swap attacks to steal approximately $794,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a Manhattan-based cryptocurrency company.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. co showing the site did indeed swap out any cryptocurrency addresses.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Threat actors have stolen $130 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Cream Finance decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Threat actors have stolen $130 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. increase from 2020. DeFi-related fraud continues to rise, as well.

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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. ” continues the expert.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. 5/29 ???????????????

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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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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now includes credentials for 441K accounts that were stolen by RedLine malware. The service now includes credentials for 441K accounts stolen by the popular info-stealer. RS is the key source of identity data sold on online criminal forums since its initial release in early 2020.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

Also, we have previously reported on cryptocurrency-focused BlueNoroff attacks. It appears that BlueNoroff shifted focus from hitting banks and SWIFT-connected servers to solely cryptocurrency businesses as the main source of the group’s illegal income. Malware infection.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. The messages said recipients had earned an investment credit at a cryptocurrency trading platform called moonxtrade[.]com. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Widespread implementation of decentralized finance (DeFi) systems since 2020 has created new fertile ground for a variety of threat actors to shift the development of cyberattack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. According to the FAQ posted on its site , “ Norton Crypto ” will mine Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2021

Researchers uncovered a large scale operation targeting cryptocurrency users with a previously undetected multiplatform RAT named ElectroRAT. Security researchers from Intezer uncovered a large scale operation targeting cryptocurrency users with a previously undetected RAT named ElectroRAT. ” Intezer concludes.

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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 Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They say these attacks targeted "numerous victims throughout 2020, including well-known influencers, sports stars, musicians, and their families." A SIM, or Subscriber Identity Module, is the little chip that goes inside a phone and ties that phone to a particular account at a particular mobile provider. Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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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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Digital Shadows

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s been a pretty big year so far for cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies’ current total market cap sits just above $1.7 The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently launched an IPO, India has reversed a ban on cryptocurrencies, and ransomware groups continue to demand payment in anonymity-based cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Australian Federal Police reported that an Australian man and a man based in the US will appear in court, following the international investigation that began in 2020. When informed that the target had significant cryptocurrency and project files, Chakhmakhchyan agreed to sell the Hive RAT. ” reported the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In October 2020, the US Justice Department charged a Ukrainian national, Mark Sokolovsky (28), with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with the Raccoon Infostealer. The Raccoon Infostealer operator, Mark Sokolovsky , was extradited to the US from the Netherlands to appear in a US court. in the stolen data.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

” In December 2020, Discoli took credit for hacking and leaking the user database for OGUsers, a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts. “That call led to the arrests. McGovern-Allen and the three U.K. Joseph James O’Connor , a.k.a.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2022

In fact, according to according to Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento, California, field offices, cryptocurrency scams are big business on LinkedIn. ” How cryptocurrency scams work on LinkedIn. Victims are directed to genuine cryptocurrency investment portals.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 16, 2023

Cryptocurrency has become a popular way to conduct transactions online, but it has also become a popular tool for cybercriminals. One of the ways they have been able to use crypto to their advantage is through the use of cryptocurrency mixers. One of the largest cryptocurrency mixers in the world is, or rather was , ChipMixer.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 14, 2020

While we saw the threat landscape change in 2019 with even more sophisticated attacks, we predict 2020 to be even more extreme. This malware can steal payment data, credentials and funds from victims’ bank accounts, and new versions are available for widespread distribution by anyone that’s willing to pay the malware’s developers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States. From there, the two allegedly would check how many of those Yahoo accounts were associated with Ring accounts, and then target people who used the same password for both accounts. . “ChumLul,” 22, of Racine, Wisc.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

On October 6, 2020, McAfee was arrested in Spain over tax evasion charges while he was about to board a plane to Turkey. . 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.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 30, 2022

The FBI has issued a warning about an uptick in hacks aimed at stealing cryptocurrencies from decentralised finance (DeFi) services. The government claims that criminals are using the rising popularity of cryptocurrencies, the open source nature of DeFi platforms, and their intricate functionality to carry out malicious deeds.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Corriera Della Sera, an Italian news resource, confirmed the attack and claims to possess evidence that internal data sheets, repair handbooks and some employee data account to 7GB of data was accessed and stolen by hackers, who are now posting them online. The post Ransomware Attack on Ferrari appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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