Cryptocurrency Scams Surveillance 
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 29, 2024
In January, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a Canadian man who was falsely charged with larceny and lost his job after becoming the victim of a complex e-commerce scam known as triangulation fraud. In this scam, you receive what you ordered, and the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.
Penetration Testing
JULY 9, 2025
A recent update embeds a persistent backdoor, turning what was once a hit-and-run data thief into a long-term intruder capable of remote command execution, system surveillance, and re-infection. Originally known for its data exfiltration from browser extensions and cold wallets, AMOS now goes beyond theft.
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Security Boulevard
MARCH 24, 2025
Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Malware AMOS and Lumma stealers actively spread to Reddit users MalwareBytes Reddit posts (directly on reddit.com ) by threat actors on subreddits frequented by cryptocurrency traders link to information stealing malware.
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
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2023
But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. So why were scammers still sending such obviously dubious emails?
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 7, 2018
Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims.
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 10, 2024
We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X (formerly Twitter) only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). A spot Bitcoin ETF will buy the cryptocurrency directly, “on the spot”, at its current price, throughout the day.
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