Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

. “Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.” Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

The Play ransomware group has been active since June 2022, the list of victims includes the City of Oakland , the Cloud services provider Rackspace , and the Dutch maritime logistics company Royal Dirkzwager. de email addresses and pay the ransom in cryptocurrency. ” The Play ransomware group follows a double extortion model.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The cybercrime group Scattered Spider is suspected of hacking into hundreds of organizations over the past two years, including Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , and Mailchimp. Victims included gaming, telecom, and cryptocurrency firms, with losses reaching millions in stolen cryptocurrency and data from hundreds of thousands of accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Working with law enforcement partners in France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom, the DOJ said it was able to seize more than 50 Internet servers tied to the malware network, and nearly $9 million in ill-gotten cryptocurrency from QakBot’s cybercriminal overlords.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. GoDaddy has not disclosed the source of the breach in December 2022 that led to malware on some customer websites. A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint. ” However.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Trend Micro researchers warn of an ongoing crypto mining campaign targeting Atlassian Confluence servers affected by the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability. “We observed the active exploitation of CVE-2022-26134 , an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with a critical rating of 9.8 ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Taylor Monahan is founder and CEO of MetaMask , a popular software cryptocurrency wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX , which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The post $3 BILLION in DeFi Hacks in 2022—So Far appeared first on Security Boulevard. And nothing of value was lost.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

Department of Justice charged three Russian citizens with operating crypto-mixing services that helped crooks launder cryptocurrency. that helped crooks launder cryptocurrency. was active from 2018 to 2022, while Sinbad.io and Sinbad.io Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik were arrested on Dec.

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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. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2025

In connection with the charges, the Justice Department filed today a civil forfeiture complaint against over $24 million in cryptocurrency seized from Gallyamov over the course of the investigation.” The DOJ has now filed to forfeit over $24 million in seized cryptocurrency. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A man from Indiana pleaded guilty to stealing over $37M in cryptocurrency from 571 victims during a 2022 cyberattack. In February 2022, Light participated in a cyber attack on an investment firm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, stealing over $37,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from 571 victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2025

The operation, which has been ongoing since 2022, identified 1,393 suspects, arrested 79, and seized over 3,000 devices. million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025. Unlike other platforms, Kidflix allowed streaming and used cryptocurrency-based payments. “A total of 1.8

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

FBI has warned of crooks developing malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from the users. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of crooks creating malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from investors. million from 244 victims between October 4, 2021, and May 13, 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A man from Orlando was sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to the theft of approximately $1M in cryptocurrency. The man was sentenced for his role in a hacking scheme that led to the theft of approximately $1M worth of cryptocurrency from dozens of victims. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Law enforcement agencies from the United Kingdom, United States, and Ireland participated in the operation that began towards the end of 2022. The authorities also seized two vehicles and €8 million worth of cryptocurrency. ” wrote Stan Duijf, Head of Operations Unit National Investigation and Interventions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Panev received over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency from Khoroshev between 2022 and 2024. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,ransomware)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. agencies].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2024

A former Amazon engineer who scammed more than $12 million from two decentralized cryptocurrencies exchanges in 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison in a case that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) called the first conviction for hacking a “smart contract.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. The links have been redacted.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Contagious Interview campaign was first detailed by Palo Alto Networks researchers in November 2023, however it has been active since at least December 2022. Threat actors used shell commands to search for cryptocurrency wallet keys in document, image, and cryptocurrency-related files, which were then sent to a remote source.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Japanese cryptocurrency platform DMM Bitcoin is closing its operations just six months after a $300 million cyber heist. DMM Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, operated by DMM Group, a large Japanese e-commerce and entertainment conglomerate. Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $304 million (48.2

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

” From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The prices page for 911 S5, circa July 2022. $28

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Bleeping Computer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022. [.]

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. ” reads the post published by Zhu on September 11, 2022. Threat actors are targeting these instances to install a cryptocurrency miner. SecurityAffairs – hacking, mining).

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 7, 2024

Threat actors affiliated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea) have plundered at least $600 million in cryptocurrency in 2023.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

FBI warns investors that crooks are increasingly exploiting security issues in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency. Threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to steal investors’ cryptocurrency.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

million) worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the Lazarus Group in March 2022 following the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack. Norwegian police agency Økokrim has announced the seizure of 60 million NOK (about $5.84

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT spreads fake cryptocurrency apps under the fake brand BloxHolder to install the AppleJeus malware. Volexity researchers warn of a new malware campaign conducted by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT against cryptocurrency users. In this campaign, the threat actors used the “bloxholder[.]com”

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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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