Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Qakbot/Qbot was once again the top malware loader observed in the wild in the first six months of 2023.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft warns of Vietnam-linked Bismuth group that is deploying cryptocurrency miner while continues its cyberespionage campaigns. Researchers from Microsoft reported that the Vietnam-linked Bismuth group, aka OceanLotus , Cobalt Kitty , or APT32 , is deploying cryptocurrency miners while continues its cyberespionage campaigns.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

The two men also advertised fraud using email accounts created using the stolen credentials on behalf of the victims, mined cryptocurrency and stole money and cryptocurrency through credit card fraud. SecurityAffairs – Romanian Duo, cybercrime). The defendants would then steal account credentials. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Tavakoli said the FBI report mentions Mimikatz, a tool created in 2007. Stolen RDP credentials are leveraged by multiple ransomware groups, and encrypting data to cause operational mayhem and extorting ransoms via hard-to-trace cryptocurrencies is the relatively recent phenomenon,” Tavakoli said.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. since Q3 of 2007. One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Despite the Executive Order, it is important to note that the Department of Justice did not need the urging of the White House to establish procedures for addressing Cryptocurrency. That original report characterized the illicit uses of cryptocurrency into three broad categories of criminality: . The Bitqyck case and the $2.4

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