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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from the Japanese digital currency exchange Zaif exchange. a Japanese cryptocurrency firm, hackers have compromised its Zaif exchange and have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Monacoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. Security firms spotted several hacking campaigns aimed at compromising websites to install JavaScript-based Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency mining scripts and monetize their efforts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. cryptocurrency holdings online. In December 2022, Troy Woody Jr. attorney general.

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JUNE 7, 2019

million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. reads the report.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“He said we used to use big accounting firms for this but found them to be ineffective,” Nick said. “The company they wanted us to use looked like a real accounting firm, but we couldn’t find any evidence that they were real. The domain was registered in 2015 by Inside Knowledge. ” DUE DILIGENCE.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The messages were sent by accounts associated with the domain “update-exodus[.]io”, Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. update.zip.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 4, 2023

” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. In 2017, U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats.

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JULY 7, 2019

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MAY 29, 2024

” From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The prices page for 911 S5, circa July 2022. $28

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MARCH 28, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB have detected the activity of Gustuff a mobile Android Trojan, which includes potential targets of customers in leading international banks, users of cryptocurrency services, popular ecommerce websites and marketplaces. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JULY 8, 2019

The following month, GandCrab bragged that the program in July 2018 netted almost 425,000 victims and extorted more than one million dollars worth of cryptocurrencies, much of which went to affiliates who helped to spread the infections. When Oneiilk2 registered on Exploit in January 2015, he used the email address hottabych_k2@mail.ru.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers. ” The analysis of the blockchain allowed the US officials to follow the stolen funds from two hacked exchange back to the 280 crypto-currency accounts. .”

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

. “Comprised of several layers of members mainly from Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Belgium, the QQAAZZ network opened and maintained hundreds of corporate and personal bank accounts at financial institutions throughout the world to receive money from cybercriminals who stole it from accounts of victims.”

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AUGUST 28, 2018

The Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum suffered a security breach, information belonging to more than 260,000 users was stolen by hackers. Hackers stole information related to over 260,000 users of the Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. “In some cases, the spearphishing attacks were successful, including in the compromise of the business network (i.e., ” HYDRA.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. BRIANS CLUB In late 2015, a major competitor to Joker’s Stash emerged using UAPS for its back-end payments: BriansClub.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. In 2017, when cryptocurrencies were gaining momentum, their record-breaking capitalization and a spike in Bitcoin’s exchange rate led to dozens of attacks on cryptocurrency services.

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Once the hackers gained access to a system, they downloaded an initial assm.exe file to achieve persistence and to add a backdoor account for future access. Tencent researchers observed the use of an account with the username “ Default ” and a password of “ @fg125kjnhn987.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

Security research carried out by CloudSEK has found that over 3000+ mobile applications were exposing Twitter’s API keys, thus providing access to twitter accounts fraudulently. Now, the employee is no more linked to the social media giant and will face the trial for indulging in fraudulent practices in 2015.

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JULY 29, 2022

re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.

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MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market. Kareem said he was instructed to create an account at a website called portal-ctsi[.]com million credit and debit cards are used to commit at least $1.8

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JULY 30, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. Then the malware uses the Mimikatz tool to get the user account credentials from the machine and use it to attempt lateral movements inside the target network. “ Propagation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In a series of live video chats and text messages, Mr. Shefel confirmed he indeed went by the Rescator identity for several years, and that he did operate a slew of websites between 2013 and 2015 that sold payment card data stolen from Target, Home Depot and a number of other nationwide retail chains. “Hi, how are you?”

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

The popular cyber security expert and cryptocurrency evangelist John McAfee has been indicted on charges of tax evasion by the Department of Justice (DOJ). ” The investigators suppose that the income was directed into bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of nominees. .

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

A threat actor has stolen roughly $24 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from decentralized finance service Harvest Finance. The hack took place earlier today and was almost immediately confirmed by Harvest Finance administrators in messages posted on the company’s Twitter account and Discord channel. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MARCH 26, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform, an automated set-up wizard allowed the owner to upload the products and services offered through the shop and configure the payment process via cryptocurrency wallets. ” “Deer.io

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JUNE 1, 2019

As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” The same threat actors used also another Docker Hub repository, associated with the ‘ marumira ‘ account, in previous attacks. We can shut it down.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Security researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered the first Android cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker impersonating MetaMask on the official Google Play store. Lukas Stefanko discovered that the app was able to steal cryptocurrency using two different attack methods. Most of the victims are located in Asia, mainly China.

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MARCH 17, 2020

KPOT Stealer is a “stealer” malware that focuses on exfiltrating account information and other data from web browsers, instant messengers, email, VPN, RDP, FTP, cryptocurrency, and gaming software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. One of these files is, ‘file1.exe,’

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

He gained access to his phone number and used it impersonate the executive and steal $500,000 from two accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini. But he wasn’t quick enough to stop a hacker from draining $500,000 from two separate accounts he had at Coinbase and Gemini, according to Santa Clara officials.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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