Schneier on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

News : Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of the 3CX software supply-chain attack that’s unfolded over the past week.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately for Griffin, years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet. Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. io ) that mimicked the official Trezor website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2025

Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing users’ private keys. Threat actors compromised the Ripple cryptocurrency npm JavaScript library xrpl.js Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Ripple)

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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.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

stealer that collects information such as saved credentials, cryptocurrency wallet data and browsing history, packs it into a.7z Clearly, in designing these fake projects, the actors went to great lengths to make the repositories appear legitimate to potential targets. com/Dipo17/battle ) and execute them.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 9, 2021

Of course, if the FBI has such capabilities, it would likely use them sparingly and ascribe any successes to other techniques – just as the Allies did not act on every piece of data obtained by hacking Enigma so as not to alert the Nazis to Enigma’s compromise.). performed after obtaining a classic search warrant).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

KrebsOnSecurity recently told the saga of a cryptocurrency investor named Tony who was robbed of more than $4.7 million in cryptocurrencies from Tony was verify-trezor[.]io. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as well as those working at the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance. Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

billion in cryptocurrency from the Bybit exchange in what is being called the largest hack in the controversial market's history. The post North Koreas Lazarus Group Hacks Bybit, Steals $1.5 North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group reportedly stole $1.5 Billion in Crypto appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

A critical vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller is actively exploited to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners in the wild. The Wiz Incident Response team reported that threat actors are exploiting the flaw in attacks in the wild to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. ” reads the advisory published by Wiz.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark. On May 9, MetrixCoin reported that its Discord server was hacked, with fake airdrop details pushed to all users.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency miner campaign targeting Russian users with SilentCryptoMiner. This is a covert miner able to mine multiple cryptocurrencies (ETH, ETC, XMR, RTM and others) using various algorithms. The payload was only accessible from Russian IPs, suggesting a targeted attack on Russian users.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

More attacks targeting cryptocurrency users. The malware targets many widely used cryptocurrency wallet browser extensions: 1. As I outlined in my 2025 Cybersecurity Predictions , I forecast an increased Nation State focus on the finance sector, with specific emphasis on the cryptocurrency. This year we have already seen a ~$1.5

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Daryna Antoniuk at TheRecord reports that a security researcher said on Sunday they had contacted Wazawaka, who confirmed being charged and said he’d paid two fines, had his cryptocurrency confiscated, and is currently out on bail pending trial. Wazawaka claimed he zealously adhered to this rule as a personal and professional mantra.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2025

Crooks stole at least $69 million from Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Phemex in an alleged cyberattack. On Thursday, researchers at the blockchain security firm PeckShield noticed a suspicious ‘outflow of large funds from the cryptocurrency platform. pic.twitter.com/qT71TJHXPJ — PeckShield Inc. worth of cryptos.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2024

authorities attributed the theft of $308 million cryptocurrency from DMM Bitcoin to North Korean cyber actors. authorities linked the $308 million cyber heist targeting cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin to North Korea-linked threat actors. On June 1st, the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin announced that crooks stole 4,502.9

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

26, Shadowserver saw an attempt to install a new type of backdoor in compromised Exchange Servers, and with each hacked host it installed the backdoor in the same place: “ /owa/auth/babydraco.aspx. Further reading: A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack. That same list today would be pages long. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

On February 21, 2025, the cryptocurrency world was rocked by the largest crypto heist in history. Alberto Farronato, Vice President of Marketing at Oasis Security, said he believes the hack will lead to sweeping changes: "The recent $1.46 billion in crypto assets.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2025

prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States and abroad, and that he personally controlled more than $26 million stolen from victims. Internet address was used to operate a Discord account that specified a cryptocurrency wallet when asking another user to send funds.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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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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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The post Schneider Electric Confirms Ransom Hack — Hellcat Demands French Bread as ‘Joke’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes?

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex , a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2022 for receiving hundreds of millions in criminal proceeds, including funds used to facilitate hacking, ransomware, terrorism and drug trafficking.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Identified by the Mandiant as one of the most consequential threat actors of 2024, Judische was responsible for a hacking rampage that exposed private information on hundreds of millions of Americans. One focus of that story was a Canadian cybercriminal who used the nickname Judische.

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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. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

seized $283,000 in cryptocurrency from an account linked to Sami as part of actions against the illicit activities of PopeyeTools. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) million in revenue.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2024

billion in cryptocurrency in 2024, more than half of the $2.2 billion stolen in all crypto hacks, and the attacks by threat groups linked to the rogue nation are becoming more frequent and are happening more quickly. North Korean hackers stole $1.34 The post North Korean Hackers Stole $1.34

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Graham Cluley

MAY 20, 2025

pleaded guilty to charges related to the January 2024 hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Twitter account, which saw a fake announcement about the Bitcoin cryptocurrency posted to its followers. Eric Council Jr. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2025

A clipper malware is a type of malicious software designed to intercept and manipulate clipboard data, typically for cryptocurrency theft. When a victim copies a cryptocurrency wallet address, the malware replaces it with an attacker-controlled address, redirecting funds to the hacker instead of the intended recipient.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 23, 2025

CoinTelegraph was hacked on June 22, 2025, with attackers injecting malicious JavaScript to display fake CTG airdrop pop-ups, stealing crypto by draining connected wallets.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Get details about how this cryptocurrency heist happened, and what Bybits CEO has said about it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Banshee Stealer can also steal cryptocurrency from different wallets, including Exodus, Electrum, Coinomi, Guarda, Wasabi Wallet, Atomic and Ledger. BANSHEE Stealer is macOS-based malware that can collect extensive data from the system, browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, and numerous browser extensions.” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

As cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, there has also been growing concern about cybercrime involvement in this sector Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial world, offering new investment opportunities and decentralized transactions.

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