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Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. co — first came online in February 2023.
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government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2022 for receiving hundreds of millions in criminal proceeds, including funds used to facilitate hacking, ransomware, terrorism and drug trafficking.
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Paul Nakasone, broadly discussed that first organization’s offensive cyber operations during the runup to the 2022 midterm elections. The head of both US Cyber Command and the NSA, Gen. “We understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world.
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networks since the summer of 2022. “ Flax Typhoon is a China-linked hacking group that has been active since 2021, it targets critical infrastructure globally, exploiting vulnerabilities for persistent access. . According to OFAC, between 2022 and 2023, Flax Typhoon hacked U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.“
authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint. ” However.
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. “Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.” Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.
has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. and its employee Guan Tianfeng for hacking U.S. ” The U.S.
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