Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. In Kulkov’s case, it no doubt was critical to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Belarusian and Cypriot national linked with the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges that can lead maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. “According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

“Our continuous monitoring of underground activity revealed despite the conviction, Flint24 never left the cybercrime scene,” reads an analysis penned by Intel 471. “He moved hundreds of millions of dollars through BTC-e,” the source said, referring to a cryptocurrency exchange that was seized by U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn for allegedly running a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Two Estonian nationals were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, after being indicted in the US for running a fraudulent cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that caused more than $575 million in losses. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2023

While cryptocurrencies have been celebrated for their potential to revolutionize finance, their anonymous nature has also been exploited for illicit activities. From drug dealing and arms trafficking to funding terrorism, black market activities have thrived under the cloak of cryptocurrency’s pseudonymity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An American was charged with money laundering while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer service between 2014 and 2017. Larry Dean Harmon (36), from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin while he was operating a Darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service between 2014 and 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

billion worth of cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.” North Korea-linked threat actors have stolen an estimated $1.2 Citing the U.S.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. Thus, 60% of the total amount was stolen from Coincheck , a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.

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Security Affairs

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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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 19, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that an Ohio resident, Larry Dean Harmon, pleaded guilty to money laundering through the use of Helix, a Dark Web cryptocurrency laundering service. Cybercriminal mixes millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Harmon says he operated Helix between 2014 and 2017. billion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. Note- Lazarus group aka Guardians of Peace is a Cybercrime group that is being funded by North Korean intelligence- as per US Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

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. Gustuff has previously never been reported. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

A new piece of malware appeared in the threat landscape, dubbed BlackSquid it targets web servers with several exploits to deliver cryptocurrency miners. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

“In one year, people who worked with us have earned over US $2 billion,” read the farewell post by the eponymous GandCrab identity on the cybercrime forum Exploit[.]in That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. Vpn-service[.]us

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Current threat actor activity is incentivized by a broad attack surface represented through high volumes of users and systems, and high potential profits represented through the variety of cryptocurrency offerings. It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). million withdrawn. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

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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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. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange. reported the Associated Press. In February, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The researchers speculate the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised through the leaked credentials available on cybercrime forums. ” concludes the report.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. District Judge Timothy M. “On Dec.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Threat actors from North Korea have been increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector since 2017 as a source of generating revenue. In this article, we’ll dive into […] The post Lazarus Cryptocurrency Hacks Estimated To Be $3 Billion appeared first on TuxCare.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ “He would then convert the profit made from selling financial details online into cryptocurrency , and store these in multiple accounts.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer Samourai. Department of Justice (DoJ) has arrested two co-founders of the cryptocurrency mixer Samourai and seized the service. Magistrate Judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania. criminal charges. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The cybercrime group Rocke is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis intalls. The malware is an evolution of a Monero cryptocurrency miner that was first spotted by Unit 42 researchers in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011 and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new cryptocurrency miner dubbed PowerGhost that can spread leveraging a fileless infection technique. “ PowerGhost also tries to spread across the local network using the now-notorious EternalBlue exploit ( CVE-2017-0144 ).” ” continues the analysis. .

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

billion in currency and cryptocurrency and further other strategic interests for the North Korean government. The charges captures years-worth of North Korean hacking, including the widely publicized 2014 Sony hack, the 2016 hack of the Central Bank of Bangladesh, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack and others.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The French court acquitted Vinnik of charges of extortion and association with a cybercrime organization. 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. million withdrawn.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since then, cybercrime group specialists from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office (LKA NRW), together with the Cybercrime Central and Contact Point (ZAC NRW), carried out another targeted strike against people associated with the criminal network.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

For the uninitiated, NFTs are unique tokens that accompany original and collectible digital artwork or videos that can be sold or traded as a form of cryptocurrency, with transactions registered on the blockchain. Many of the earlier NFTs involved illustrations of kittens, but they can take the form of just about anything. billion in 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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Webroot

APRIL 7, 2021

With investors currently bullish on Bitcoin, is its high value is driving cybercriminals to pursue crypto-generating forms of cybercrime like ransomware and illicit miners? Not necessarily, says threat researcher and cryptocurrency expert Tyler Moffitt. This attack skyrocketed from its inception in 2017 into 2018.

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