Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. For example, on October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc.

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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

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

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 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 ($1.2 380 billion.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. Up until Sept.

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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

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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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. and can execute remote commands through the socketServer function, including executing shell commands and stealing device information (whour).

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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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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies.

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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. ” warns Censys. ’),” Censys adds.

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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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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

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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Security Affairs

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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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

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

APRIL 4, 2023

Threat actors behind the 3CX supply chain attack have targeted a limited number of cryptocurrency companies with a second-state implant. SentinelOne is tracking the malicious activity as SmoothOperator, the company speculates that the threat actor behind the attack has set up its infrastructure starting as early as February 2022.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

Threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners. CheckPoint researchers have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Threat actors have stolen $325 million in cryptocurrency leveraging a bug in the Wormhole communication bridge. This is the second-biggest hack of a DeFi platform ever, just after the $600 million Poly Network security breach. — Wormhole (@wormholecrypto) February 2, 2022. — samczsun (@samczsun) February 3, 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

Department of Treasury sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io Department of Treasury sanctioned the cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io The post US gov sanctions cryptocurrency mixer Blender also used by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT appeared first on Security Affairs. used by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 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. FBI identified more than 50 million unique credentials and forms of identification (email addresses, bank accounts, cryptocurrency addresses, credit card numbers, etc.)

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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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APRIL 7, 2025

“In the Florida case, Urban was accused of stealing at least $800,000 in cryptocurrency from five different victims between August 2022 and March 2023.” He was accused of stealing at least $800,000 from five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. ” reported News4Jax. In January 2024, U.S.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Panev received over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency from Khoroshev between 2022 and 2024. Between June 2022 and February 2024, the LockBit administrator sent over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency to Panev’s wallet, averaging $10,000 monthly.

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JUNE 3, 2022

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. “However, some funds had also been transferred to what appear to be cryptocurrency tumblers, also known as cryptocurrency mixing services.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, cryptocurrency). million in illicit gains.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The threat actors behind a massive AdSense fraud campaign infected 10,890 WordPress sites since September 2022. In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

The cybercriminal facilitated money laundering by accepting illicit cryptocurrency from criminal groups, including North Korea-linked APT Lazarus , vendors of child sexual abuse material, and terrorist financiers. “There were also transfers between cryptocurrency wallets. But not only physical money transactions were made.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Anatoly Legkodymov, the founder of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded in a money-laundering scheme. Anatoly Legkodymov (41) (aka Anatolii Legkodymov, Gandalf, and Tolik), the Russian founder of the unlicensed Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, has pleaded guilty in a money-laundering scheme.

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