Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2022

It was rife during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 , with bogus Red Cross websites and email addresses set up to part people from their money. The tactics used match those deployed in 2011, and pretty much every other major catastrophe. Cryptocurrency scamming is rampant. The lowest of the low. Fake it to make it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The cyberattacks against the cryptocurrency industry are a profitable business for threat actors, according to the experts, $12.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen in the last decade. “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011 and money laundering. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Then the attackers transferred funds from Mt. ” reads the DoJ.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 9, 2023

Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner have been charged with the 2011 hacking of the leading (at the time) cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the laundering of around 647,000 bitcoins they stole. [.]

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two Russian nationals in connection with masterminding the 2014 digital heist of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

FinCEN analyzed a data set composed of 2,184 SARs filed between 1 January 2011 and 30 June 2021 and identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallets addresses that were used in ransomware operations associated with the above ransomware variants. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

The company was purchased by Intel in 2011 for more than $7.6bn. According to the indictment , the expert earned millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a documentary.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. charged Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian and Cypriot national linked with the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. reported the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In September, Greek Police have arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik (38) and they accuse the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 13, 2024

for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021. [.] Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C.,

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 12, 2023

Bilyuchenko and Verner are charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from the 2011 hack of Mt. Bilyuchenko is separately charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to operate the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The primary purpose of the KashmirBlack botnet is to abuse resources of compromised systems for cryptocurrency mining and redirecting a site’s legitimate traffic to spam pages. .” reads the first part of two reports published by the experts detailing the DevOps implementation behind the botnet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Since 2011, Wang and his co-conspirators had been distributing malware through malicious VPN applications, including MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. The law enforcement also arrested its administrator, the 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, in Singapore. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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DNS Antivirus Cryptocurrency Software 118

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

“The seizure represents the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the history of the Department of Justice.” filed a civil complaint to forfeit the funds, this is the largest seizure of cryptocurrency funds the Department of Justice has ever made. .” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Cryptocurrency Advertising Marketing Hacking 95

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Transactions on the dark web are typically conducted using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to maintain anonymity. Transactions on the dark web are often carried out with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, which are unregulated and difficult to trace back to the user. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 billion in value.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

He was also charged in a Manhattan federal court earlier this year for his alleged involvement in a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme. McAfee sold his self-named company to Intel in 2011. Reuters previously reported that McAfee claimed the federal tax evasion charges against him were politically motivated. Photo by Gage Skidmore.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Greek Police have arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik (38) and they accuse the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Since cryptocurrencies were, are and will continue to be impactful technologies, surely NFTs are a topic worth exploring. NFTs use the same blockchain ledger technology to verify uniqueness that cryptocurrencies rely on to prove ownership.

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Cryptocurrency Marketing Phishing Authentication 95

SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

He was also charged in a Manhattan federal court earlier this year for his alleged involvement in a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme. McAfee sold his self-named company to Intel in 2011. Reuters previously reported that McAfee claimed the federal tax evasion charges against him were politically motivated. Photo by Gage Skidmore.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. RedLine’s main purpose is to steal credentials and information from browsers, in addition to stealing credit card details and cryptocurrency wallets from the compromised machine. SmokeLoader.

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Malware Cryptocurrency Passwords Software 133

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In September, Greek Police have arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik (38) and they accuse the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. This variant of fraud has been around since at least 2011, when an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee with high-level IT access privileges hijacked company computers to mine Bitcoin.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2021

The Department of Justice (DOJ) describes his crimes like this: "Bitcoin Fog was the longest-running cryptocurrency 'mixer,' gaining notoriety as a go-to money laundering service for criminals seeking to hide their illicit proceeds from law enforcement. Over the course of its decade-long operation, Bitcoin Fog moved over 1.2

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Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Advertising Internet 52

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

The term was first used by Brian Krebs in 2011 after a proof of concept was conducted at DEF CON by Wall of Sheep. While cryptominers mine a mobile phone's CPU/GPU for cryptocurrency and drain its battery, ransomware freezes devices or encrypts files for ransom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011. The module also exfiltrates 2FA secrets from Twilio’s Authy local storage.

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DoublePulsar

MARCH 2, 2020

I finished Skyrim in 2011 and haven’t recovered yet). such as this one, spotted by the team I’ll be joining, where software was used to deliver rogue cryptocurrency miners. This is something Microsoft Threat Protection is leading the way on, and this is fundamentally why I started looking at this job. Me, by the way… like, badly?—?I

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Looking at the adoption of 2FA by site categories reveals that FINTECH- (financial technologies) and IT (information technology)-related services, such as cryptocurrency and cloud services, are leading the 2FA adoption charge. in 2011 almost 10 years ago. Support for various categories. HOTP was standardized in the.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. For that you're going to need cryptocurrency. Here's when you buy some cryptocurrency and set up a wallet. This is cryptocurrency laundering. And he had. You need a VPN.

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Hacking Mobile Cryptocurrency VPN 52

Security Boulevard

JULY 2, 2024

IntroductionIn this two-part blog series, we explore the evolution of SmokeLoader, a malware downloader that has been active since 2011. CMD_MINER or CMD_EMPTY0x271ERequests a cryptocurrency miner executable from the server. They are separated by the substring {:!:}.CMD_MINER

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011. me , which included a copyright credit to “Hot Spot 2011.” Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 265

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

It stole credentials for various financial systems including online banking applications and cryptocurrency wallets in Brazil. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. The Trojan Ghimob was one of 2020’s most exciting discoveries.

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