Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The complaint doesn’t specify which agency portal was hacked, but it does state that the portal included access to law enforcement databases that track narcotics seizures in the United States. federal government portal without authorization.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited to deliver Windows and Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges. CVE-2019-11707 is a type confusion vulnerability in Array.pop. to address the recently fixed CVE-2019-11707 zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

North Korea-linked threat actors are behind some of the largest cyberattacks against cryptocurrency exchanges. North Korea-linked APT groups are suspected to be behind some of the largest cyberattacks against cryptocurrency exchanges. billion (2 trillion won) worth of cryptocurrency from multiple exchanges during the past five years.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

A new cyber heist made the headlines, the victim is Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange and hackers stole $19 Million. Hackers have stolen nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange. BREAKING Bithumb is being hacked, at its EOS cold storage level!!!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. On May 2, 2024, Judische claimed on the fraud-focused Telegram channel Star Chat that they had hacked Santander Bank , one of the first known Snowflake victims. Image: [link] On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims. Affiliates paid fees to administrators like Ptitsyn for decryption keys, with payments routed via unique cryptocurrency wallets from 2021–2024. Attorney Erek L.

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Krebs on Security

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. ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. The links have been redacted.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The man is accused of being a LockBit ransomware developer from 2019 through at least February 2024. Panev received over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency from Khoroshev between 2022 and 2024. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,ransomware)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. 02, 2020, pitching O’Connor as a cryptocurrency expert and advisor. I don’t care,” O’Connor told The Times.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Researchers have discovered a botnet dubbed PgMiner that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new botnet, tracked as PgMiner, that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. FEMALE TARGETS. BAD REACTION. I would laugh at them.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That allowed them to seize control over a target’s incoming phone calls and text messages, which were used to reset the password for email, social media and cryptocurrency accounts tied to those numbers. Interestingly, the conspiracy appears to have unraveled over a business dispute between the two men. In a private message dated Nov.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Another cryptocurrency exchange announced to have suffered a theft, this time is the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. It has happened again, crooks stole funds from another cryptocurrency exchange, this time the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. — Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars of cryptocurrency using a SIM swapping. Once hijacked a SIM, the attacker can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

which addresses the CVE-2019-6342 flaw that allows hackers to take control of Drupal 8 sites. is affected by a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-6342, that could be exploited by attackers to take control of Drupal 8 websites. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has also published a security update for the CVE-2019-6342 flaw.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 11, 2024

Unfortunately, GetMonero site has been hacked. The popular cryptocurrency Monero faced a security breach in November 2019, raising concerns for users who downloaded the Command Line Interface (CLI) wallet software during a specific timeframe.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Just three days after the CVE-2019-6340 flaw in Drupal was addressed, threat actors in the wild started exploiting the issue to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The NetWalker ransomware group has been active since 2019, it was operating using the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. in cryptocurrency obtained from ransom payments. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, ransomware) under the U.S.-Romania

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. At the time, Coinhive was only responding to abuse reports when contacted by a hacked site’s owner. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project early next month.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later — while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. ’s son was loaded with cryptocurrency? ” What made the Miami men so convinced R.C.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy XMRig cryptocurrency miner on macOS systems. The experts identified three generation of malware since August 2019. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . “On the other hand, macOS Ventura did not prevent the miner from executing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Hacking Group Anonymous has declared a cyber war against Russia on Twitter and claimed their latest victim by disrupting the services of Russian Government News Resource RT. The post Hacking group Anonymous declares Cyber War on Russia appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations managing supercomputers across Europe reported their systems have been compromised to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Crooks have compromised supercomputers across Europe to deploy cryptocurrency miners, incidents have been already reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. SecurityAffairs – supercomputers, hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns conducted by North Korea-linked APT groups against two cryptocurrency exchanges. In the second attack, threat actors stole $2.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

Experts warn of a new wave of attacks against cryptocurrency entities, threat actors are using a RAT dubbed Parallax RAT for Infiltration. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Uptycs warns of attacks targeting cryptocurrency organizations with the Parallax remote access Trojan (RAT).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the last 18 months, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Kaspersky researchers have analyzed the attacks carried out by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group in the past 18 months and confirmed their interest in banks and cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. The Raccoon stealer is written in C++ by Russian-speaking developers who initially promoted it exclusively on Russian-speaking hacking forums.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2025

Garantex has been active since 2019, the service allowed customers to buy and sell virtual currencies using fiat currencies. We are temporarily suspending all services, including cryptocurrency withdrawals, while our team works to resolve this issue. Secret Service seized the website (“garantex[.]org”) billion rubles.

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Security Affairs

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.” “An interesting characteristic of the attack is that it uses a cryptocurrency miner that it is being built from scratch instead of an existing one.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2024

One of the developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison. Alexey Pertsev (29), one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency. billion U.S. billion U.S.

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Krebs on Security

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. SANDWORM AND TRITON. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2025

The dual Russian-Israeli national was arrested in Israel in 2024 and faces charges related to his role in the ransomware operation The man is accused of being a LockBit ransomware developer from 2019 through at least February 2024. Panev received over $230,000 in laundered cryptocurrency from Khoroshev between 2022 and 2024.

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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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