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Cryptocurrency exchange BuyUcoin hacked, data of 325K+ users leaked

Security Affairs

Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users. A new incident involving a cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, the India-based cryptocurrency exchange suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users on the Dark Web.

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The Irony of InfoSec’s Reaction to Crytpo, NFTs, and Web3

Daniel Miessler

There’s something strange about how our InfoSec community is reacting to cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Web3. Many of them are quiet about it because they don’t want to be ridiculed by their fellow InfoSec people. Mostly, it’s horribly negative. I think this comes from the dual nature of hackers themselves.

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Top 9 Trends In Cybersecurity Careers for 2025

eSecurity Planet

Blockchain: Developed primarily for cryptocurrency applications and maligned for manipulating those markets, blockchain can be a valuable security tool, as its universe of connected nodes is almost impossible to corrupt or destroy. (ISC)2 Knowledge of cloud systems architecture and how it interacts with various devices is invaluable.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter.

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Financial Cybercrime: Why Cryptocurrency is the Perfect ‘Getaway Car’

Threatpost

John Hammond, security researcher with Huntress, discusses how financially motivated cybercrooks use and abuse cryptocurrency.

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Largest Cryptocurrency Hack in History, $10k For Stolen Network Access, Your Identity and the Metaverse

Security Boulevard

Over $600 million stolen in the largest DeFi cryptocurrency hack in history, attackers are getting around $10k for stolen network access credentials, and why your identity is trapped inside a social network and what this means for the next potential evolution of the Internet…the metaverse! ** Links mentioned on the show ** Apple to refuse […].

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Ongoing Flipper Zero phishing attacks target infosec community

Bleeping Computer

A new phishing campaign is exploiting the increasing interest of security community members towards Flipper Zero to steal their personal information and cryptocurrency. [.].