SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2025

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, marking a record-breaking year in cybercrime. The FBI Washington Field Office participated in two media series aimed at bringing awareness to call center fraud. The report highlights a staggering $16.6 billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2025

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has transformed cybercrime into an accessible, scalable platform that anyone can tap into—no code required. Welcome to the age of cybercrime for hire—streamlined, professionalized, and more dangerous than ever. How RaaS works: cybercrime-as-a-platform RaaS operates like any modern SaaS business model.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2025

New malware campaign targets Docker environments using unknown methods to secretly mine cryptocurrency, researchers warn. Researchers from Darktrace and Cado Security have spotted a malware campaign that targets Docker environments with a novel technique to mine cryptocurrency. These points can be converted to $TENEO tokens.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Whereas early phishing scams arrived almost entirely through emails, modern phishing scams can reach victims through malicious websites, text messages, social media, and even mobile app downloads. The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 18, 2025

They can profess their empty love to you across your social media apps. They use it to check emails, browse the internet, make phone calls, scroll through social media, and text family and friends. A romance scam, similarly, can start on a social media platform but can move into a messaging service like WhatsApp.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

” Maxim Rudometov has been closely involved with the RedLine infostealer operation, regularly managing its technical infrastructure and handling cryptocurrency accounts used to receive and launder payments. He’s known online by several aliases, including “dendimirror,” “alinchok,” “makc1901,” and “bloodzz.fenix.”

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We Live Security

JULY 4, 2025

They may differ in small details , but all work something like this: You are approached via an unsolicited text message (WhatsApp, Telegram etc), SMS or social media message. The FTC recorded 20,000 cases in the first half of 2024 alone, versus 5,000 in the whole of 2023. This is what the whole scam is really about.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

A pig butchering scam is a manipulative fraud where scammers build trust with victims over time, often via social media or dating apps, before exploiting them financially. They introduce fake investment opportunities, convincing victims to invest large sums.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2025

. “Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the cybercrime network NoName057(16). The group spreads propaganda and recruits through social media, forums, and niche chat apps. ” reads the press release published by Europol.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

DragonForce Ransomware Group is Targeting Saudi Arabia Massive Botnet Targets M365 with Stealthy Password Spraying Attacks Notorious Malware, Spam Host Prospero Moves to Kaspersky Lab ACRStealer Infostealer Exploiting Google Docs as C2 #StopRansomware: Ghost (Cring) Ransomware The GitVenom campaign: cryptocurrency theft using GitHub Silent Killers: (..)

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7 The percentage was lower for home users (10.34%), but home users were more likely to be targeted by pages using banks and global internet portals, social media and IMs, payment systems, and online games as a lure. million detections compared to 5.84

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Judische would repeat that claim in Star Chat on May 13 — the day before Santander publicly disclosed a data breach — and would periodically blurt out the names of other Snowflake victims before their data even went up for sale on the cybercrime forums. prosecutors and federal law enforcement agencies. “Negotiate a deal in Telegram.”

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

These implants exfiltrated sensitive files such as certificates and cryptocurrency keys via a custom PowerShell exfiltration script. Key tactics included: Obfuscation using ScatterBrain and ScatterBee Use of DLL hijacking DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for C2 communication Exploitation of vulnerable enterprise infrastructure (e.g.,

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2025

Modern darknet markets cloak themselves behind Tor ( The Onion Router , an overlay network popularly used to browse the Dark Web) and accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and privacy-centric Monero. We're facing a new era of cybercrime fueled by malware-as-a-service (MaaS), and ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The proliferation of cybercrime guides on forums and a 7% rise in insider threat content, driven by significant financial incentives, highlight the growing complexity of cybersecurity challenges. The proliferation of these guides enables more individuals to enter the cybercrime arena.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2025

International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Blockchain gaming platform WEMIX hacked to steal $6.1 million Babuk2 Ransomware: Extortion Attempts Based on False Claims Western Alliance Bank notifies 21,899 customers of data breach Cybercriminals Exploit Checkpoints Driver in a BYOVD Attack!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

from Bybit, it is the largest cryptocurrency heist ever International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Mining Company NioCorp Loses $500,000 in BEC Hack Inside Black Bastas Exposed Internal Chat Logs: A Firsthand Look The Bleeding Edge of Phishing: darcula-suite 3.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A ransomware attack forced New York Blood Center to reschedule appointments Contec CMS8000 patient monitors contain a hidden backdoor Community Health Center data breach impacted over 1 million patients Italy’s data protection authority Garante blocked the DeepSeek AI platform Broadcom fixed information disclosure flaws in VMware Aria Operations (..)

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) away from prosecuting misconduct in the cryptocurrency sector, reassigning lawyers and renaming the unit to focus more on “cyber and emerging technologies.” Also on Friday, the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced on X that a cybersecurity breach led to the theft of more than $1.4

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2025

The president fired all advisors from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board, called for the creation of a strategic cryptocurrency reserve, and voided a Biden administration action that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2024

In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev , whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. That story showed how Punchmade’s social media profiles promoted Punchmade-themed online stores selling bank account and payment card data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

This post explores answers to those questions, as well as some of the ways Trickbot and other organized cybercrime gangs gradually recruit, groom and trust new programmers. Alla Witte’s personal website — allawitte[.]nl nl — circa October 2018. 6 in Miami, Fla. law enforcement agencies. Image: DOJ.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. The new restrictions came as some Russian cybercrime forums began distancing themselves from ransomware operations altogether. ”

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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. According to South Korean media outlet Chosun, North Korean threat actors have stolen around $1.7

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

Alright, how many of you saw a cryptocurrency ad on TV in 2022? Now the important question: how many of you got scammed in some sort of way by cryptocurrency or another type of investment? The report shows that phishing schemes were the most common type of cybercrime reported by victims in 2022, with 300,497 complaints.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs. Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider , a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , Mailchimp , and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. man arrested was a SIM-swapper who went by the alias “ Tyler.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Operators behind the Squid Game cryptocurrency have exit scam making off with an estimated $2.1 Operators behind the Squid Game cryptocurrency have exit scam making off with an estimated $2.1 The following graph shows that the cryptocurrency peaked at a price of $2,861 before dropping to $0 around. ” reported GixModo.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies. This wealth allowed Conti to do things that regular investors couldn’t — such as moving the price of cryptocurrencies in one direction or the other. “Cryptocurrency article contest!

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