Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

The Department of Justice has charged the two Chinese nationals for laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea-linked APT groups. for helping North Korea-linked hackers in laundering cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency have been stolen by the APT groups from two cryptocurrency exchanges. and Li Jiadong (???),

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. ” At the time of story, DaiLin was 28 years old.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Reliaquest says QakBot infections accounted for nearly one-third of all loaders observed in the wild during the first six months of this year. The DOJ declined to say whether any suspects were questioned or arrested in connection with Qakbot, citing an ongoing investigation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

They also activated files that forced infected computers to register email accounts with AOL.” “The defendants registered more than 100,000 email accounts using this method. The defendants would then steal account credentials. . “The defendants used stolen email credentials to copy a victim’s email contacts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ThreatNeedle malware used in this campaign belongs to a malware family known as Manuscrypt, which belongs to the Lazarus group and has previously been seen attacking cryptocurrency businesses.” Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

But these more “hands-on” and first person attacks are becoming increasingly common within certain cybercriminal communities, particularly those engaged in SIM swapping , a crime in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s various online accounts and identities.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

You can reach back to 2007 and look in amazement at the 419 death threat. We see criminals gravitating to digital payment systems, cryptocurrencies, and even gift cards across most realms of attack. Don’t leave contact details of family members stored in easily compromised email accounts.

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