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. Cyber security and intelligence experts believe that attacks aimed at the cryptocurrency industry will continue to increase next year. trillion won ($1.2 Citing the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

An international police operation led by Europol led to the arrest of cryptocurrency scammers targeting users all over the world. The European police have supported this investigation since June 2022 following an initial request from German authorities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cryptocurrency). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars of cryptocurrency using a SIM swapping. Once hijacked a SIM, the attacker can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 9, 2024, U.S.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Stay on top of the latest email security breach and cybersecurity news or you could become the victim of cybercrime. This week’s news recap covers the American Airlines’ data breach and cryptocurrency platform Wintermute’s DeFi hack. The post Weekly Email Security News Recap #3 [September 2022] appeared first on EasyDMARC.

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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. federal court.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There are few guarantees in the IT industry, but one certainty is that as the world steps into 2022, ransomware will continue to be a primary cyberthreat. Cryptocurrency Fuels Ransomware. One constant in all this will be cryptocurrency, the coin of the realm when it comes to ransomware. It is because of the cash cow.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

The hacker is offering the database on a popular cybercrime forum for 10 bitcoins. The Chief Executive Officer of cryptocurrency exchange Binance , Zhao Changpeng, on July 3rd, announced that the threat intelligence team of his company has detected 1 billion resident records available for sale in a cybercrime forum.

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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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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. In August 2022, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2023

The couple pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the hack of the cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex that took place in 2016. In February 2022, Ilya Lichtenstein (35) and his wife, Heather Morgan (32), were arrested for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 Law enforcement also seized over $3.6

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The BTC.com cryptocurrency platform was the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of $3 million worth of crypto assets. “BIT Mining Limited, a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that the Company’s subsidiary, BTC.com, experienced a cyberattack on December 3, 2022.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cryptocurrency prices were dropping from the end of 2021 and throughout the first half of 2022. Apart from cryptocurrency theft they extort digital money or illicitly mine it using victim’s devices instead of their own. Cybercriminals pay neither for equipment, nor for electricity, which is rather expensive in 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

On June 7, 2022, seizure orders allowed to seize four domains used by the operators of the SSNDOB Marketplace ( ssndob.ws , ssndob.vip , ssndob.club , and blackjob.biz ), shutting down the website’s operation. “Most funds sent to SSNDOB have come from centralized and P2P cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as other services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy XMRig cryptocurrency miner on macOS systems. The researchers noticed similarities with other examples reported by Trend Micro in February 2022. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The cybercrime gang has been active since at least January 2020. The malware is also able to steal details from cryptocurrency wallets and load additional malware to conduct malicious operations. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). ”” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. To nominate, please visit:?

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2022, we saw a major upgrade of the notorious Emotet botnet as well as the launch of massive campaigns by Emotet operators throughout the year. For instance, malicious spam campaigns targeting organizations grew 10-fold in April 2022, spreading Qbot and Emotet malware. of all phishing attacks in 2022.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In January of 2022 the Malwarebytes Intelligence Team uncovered a campaign where Lazarus conducted spear phishing attacks weaponized with malicious documents that used a familiar job opportunities theme. One of the group's preferred tactics is to use trojanized cryptocurrency related apps, like AppleJeus. The new campaign. Second wave.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using the access they are logging into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts to drain their crypto funds, TechCrunch reported.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2023

Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022. million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million the year before.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Threat actors stole $80M worth of cryptocurrency from the Qubit DeFi platform by exploiting a flaw in the smart contract code used in an Ethereum bridge. The DeFi platform Qubit Finance was victim of a cyber heist, threat actors stole around $80 million in cryptocurrency last week. million), 767 BTC-B ($28.5 million), approximately $9.5

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2023

It shouldn't come as a surprise to many, but i llicit cryptocurrency transactions hit an all-time high in 2022, totaling $20.1 Despite the massive downturn for crypto in 2022, illicit transaction volume rose for a second year in a row. billion, according to a report by Chainalysis. Chainalysis notes that the $20.1

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has laundered $900 million worth of cryptocurrency, Elliptic researchers reported. North Korea-linked Lazarus Group laundered $900 Million in cryptocurrency between July 2022 and July 2023. ” reads the report published by Elliptic. ” reads the report published by Elliptic.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raised some serious concerns about the possibility of a massive $40 million cryptocurrency heist orchestrated by malicious actors linked to North Korea, specifically the Lazarus Group. In April of 2022, the U.S. And now it appears that CISA's forewarnings are becoming a reality.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2022

A former Canadian government IT worker admitted to being a high-level member of the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. to charges related to his involvement with the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. in cryptocurrency obtained from ransom payments. million as a result of the offenses charged in the indictment.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2022, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

in March 2022. ” The co-conspirators demanded ransom payments in cryptocurrency and used cryptocurrency exchangers and mixing services to hide their ill-gotten gains. . victims, and we are disrupting the broader cybercrime ecosystem.” Vasinskyi was extradited to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. According to the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Momentum Cyber has released its Cybersecurity Almanac 2022 , a comprehensive report providing strategic insights into the industry. With analysis from over 3,500 companies spread across the world, the almanac details key trends in 2021 and how they can shape the outlook for 2022. Outlook on cybersecurity in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs say the crooks responsible for maintaining the QakBot botnet have rented their creation to various cybercrime groups over the years.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

billion worth of cryptocurrency linked to the 2016 Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange hack. Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. billion in cryptocurrency linked to that hack. Learn more [link] — Bitfinex (@bitfinex) February 8, 2022. The law enforcement seized $3.6

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Krebs on Security

MAY 9, 2023

Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. They accept payment via PayPal, Google Wallet, and/or cryptocurrencies, and subscriptions can range in price from just a few dollars to several hundred per month. This is the third in a series of U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The man was held in the Netherlands, and he was charged for his alleged role in the international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. 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.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

and international sanctions, particularly by exploiting cryptocurrency. million into Western Europe through deceptive investment accounts and real estate acquisitions in March 2022. This action also serves as a warning to individuals involved in money laundering, sanctions evasion, and cybercrime.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Methodology In this report, we present an analysis of financial cyberthreats in 2023, focusing on banking Trojans and phishing pages that target online banking, shopping accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and other financial assets. Cryptocurrency phishing saw a 16% year-on-year increase in 2023, with 5.84 million in 2022.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“A Russian, suspected of having recovered in cryptocurrencies the money taken from French victims of the powerful Hive ransomware , dismantled in January, was arrested last week, AFP learned on Tuesday December 12 from the judicial police.” anti-cybercrime (Ofac).” anti-cybercrime (Ofac).”

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