Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 11, 2024
A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. A machine-translated version of Flymoney, one of dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges apparently nested at Cryptomus.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The researchers are calling the malware Perfctl, the name of a malicious component that surreptitiously mines cryptocurrency. Besides using the machine resources to mine cryptocurrency, Perfctl also turns the machine into a profit-making proxy that paying customers use to relay their Internet traffic.
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Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 4, 2024
government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies. government’s “Wanted” poster for him.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
According to prosecutors, the group mainly sought to steal cryptocurrency from victim companies and their employees. Those accounts state that the intruders assaulted Tylerb’s mother in the home invasion, and that they threatened to burn him with a blowtorch if he didn’t give up the keys to his cryptocurrency wallets.
SecureWorld News
APRIL 22, 2025
A sophisticated cybercrime campaign, dubbed Elusive Comet , has been uncovered, in which North Korean threat actors are exploiting Zoom's remote control feature to infiltrate the systems of cryptocurrency professionals. The research behind the discovery was released by Security Alliance , which tracked and analyzed the campaign.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.
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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