Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

During the search, the agents seized cryptocurrencies and various computer equipment. The investigation began in early 2024 after data stolen from a Madrid business association was leaked on dark web cybercrime forums. The man was arrested in the town of Calpe (Alicante). ” continues the press release.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. Samy Tarazi is a sergeant with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office and a REACT supervisor.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. This revolutionized the cybercrime landscape, making it easier for people with minimal technical skills to commit ransomware attacks. The indirect costs of ransomware attacks are often even more damaging.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 1, 2021

UK’s national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime (Action Fraud) is warning citizens to watch out for travel-related fraud following the government’s announcement last week that it would lift travel restrictions. If the person or agent insists that you give these details or risk forfeiting your spot, it’s a scam.

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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. At time of writing, the value of one Bitcoin is north of $58 thousand.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

The malware also supports advanced keylogger capabilities by capturing all Accessibility events and screen elements. “Already observed targeting banks in Spain and Turkey and popular cryptocurrency wallets, Crocodilus is clearly engineered to go after high-value assets.” ” ThreatFabric concludes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Rhadamanthys Stealer Adds Innovative AI Feature in Version 0.7.0

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Last month we covered a wide range of cybercrime topics. But there’s more going on in the cybercrime landscape, so we also published reports on new versions of the Lumma stealer and Zanubis Android banking trojan. To set the targeted applications on the implant, the C2 sends the event config_packages.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Recent events have brought to light the Ledger supply chain breach, a cybercrime incident that led to the theft of $600,000 in virtual assets. For those who don’t know, Ledger is a company that develops hardware and software-based cryptocurrency wallets.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2024

“CrowdStrike Intelligence has since observed threat actors leveraging the event to distribute a malicious ZIP archive named crowdstrike-hotfix.zip. The domains were used to advertise services to companies affected by the issue in return for a cryptocurrency payment. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The online conference-esque event started on April 20, when administrators asked for papers covering unorthodox methods to swindle cryptocurrency wallets, smart contracts and NFTs, advances in cryptomining malware, and other related thievery, according to research from Intel 471. .” Entries closed mid May.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2022

Almost all forms of business suffered—even illegal ones like cybercrime. Cryptocurrency values soared in 2021 and, to nobody’s surprise, detections of malware that mines cryptocurrencies increased more than 300 precent.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2024

perfctl malware targets misconfigured Linux servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners and proxyjacking software in an ongoing campaign. The malicious code was used to drop cryptocurrency miners and proxyjacking software. Additionally, the malware uses environment variables to store data that further affects its execution and behavior.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

While it should come as no surprise that cybercrime broke pretty much every record in 2021, the actual numbers behind the crimes are quite revealing. Cybercrime in the last five years. The first section of the report provides an overview of what cybercrime has looked like in the last five years.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cybercriminals were able to successfully steal over $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network—one of the largest crypto thefts of all-time. It is not the case that this event occurred due to the leakage of the keeper's private key.". Hackers return half of stolen cryptocurrencies.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The year 2021 was eventful in terms of digital threats for organizations and individuals, and financial institutions were no exception. The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ransomware burnout might be creeping in for many cybersecurity professionals, but cybercrime organizations do not show any signs of slowing down, according to a new report. In all of 2020, the total cost was $416 million, which shows how cybercrime ransoms are on trajectory to nearly triple from last year. The findings?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We can therefore expect that cybercrime groups from either block will feel safe to attack companies from the opposing side. In 2023, we might see a slight decline in ransomware attacks, reflecting the slowdown of the cryptocurrency markets. I believe cybercrime is the biggest threat to end-users, but mainly in an indirect fashion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

Cryptocurrency ATM maker General Bytes suffered a security breach over the weekend, the hackers stole $1.5M worth of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency ATM manufacturers General Bytes suffered a security incident that resulted in the theft of $1.5M worth of cryptocurrency. Attackers also stole funds in other cryptocurrencies.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You really had to be there to soak in everything discussed between speakers, attendees, and our sponsors, but if you were unable to attend for some reason, we've got you covered with highlights from the event. The event kicked off with an opening keynote led by U.S. So be sure to check out our events page and register today !

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Intell on the Criminal Underground – Who’s Who in Cybercrime for ” Presentation – [PDF].

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Join us LIVE on October 3, 2018 at 10 AM CST as we cover the lessons we’ve learned from a year of cybercrime. What we’ll cover in this event…. Cryptocurrency – Cryptocurrency is one of the hottest topics of 2018. During this portion of the event, we will examine everything you need to know about cryptocurrency.

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SC Magazine

MAY 26, 2021

The past year has brought a series of new headaches to law enforcement agencies in the form of ransomware, cryptocurrency laundering and debates about legal authorities. At a May 26 event hosted by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, three U.S. Mario Tama/Getty Images). Still, U.S.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. Cybercriminals used the names of well-known APT groups to intimidate victims, demanded ransoms in cryptocurrency, and carried out demonstration attacks to back up their threats.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. The actor used cryptocurrency-related contents or complaints from law enforcement as lure themes.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Militaristic nation-state actors – might attempt to sabotage military and critical infrastructure systems to gain an advantage in the event of conflict. Cybercrime is a profitable business, with the global cybercrime market generating a higher turnover (about $0,45 – 1 trillion) than that of drugs and stolen cars.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

.” Fast Cleaner (vizeeva.fast.cleaner) is still available on the Play Store, the analysis of the overlay revealed Xenomorph was developed to target users from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium, as well as some general-purpose applications like emailing services, and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

In a press conference today, Australian police confirmed that the Trojan Shield began in 2018 after the FBI seized the encrypted chat platform Phantom Secure , an event that shook the crime ecosystem and forced many gangs to move to another encrypted communication system. Countless spin-off operations will be carried out in the weeks to come.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives". An IR plan can direct your responders on what to do in the event of a cybersecurity attack. Educate your staff.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

” The droppers are designed to target include 231 banking and cryptocurrency wallet apps from entities in Italy, the U.K., The new variant supports additional capabilities to log user interface elements and interaction events to avoid using the FLAG_SECURE window flag to prevent screen captures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

IHG suffered a cyberattack that severely impacted its booking process China-Linked BRONZE PRESIDENT APT targets Government officials worldwide Scammers live-streamed on YouTube a fake Apple crypto event US Treasury sanctioned Iran ’s Ministry of Intelligence over Albania cyberattack $30 Million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by Lazarus from Axie Infinity (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

to replace Chinese equipment Hackers breached a server of National Games of China days before the event Russian Gamaredon APT is targeting Ukraine since October Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream emerges from the dark Argo CD flaw could allow stealing sensitive data from Kubernetes Apps. US seizes $3.6 US seizes $3.6

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Unfortunately, contemporary events seem to confirm this.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That is why it is popular in cryptocurrency systems; in fact, it is vital because there would be no anonymity for crypto users without it. This is vital in cryptocurrency transactions as nobody can alter or delete a transaction once it has been recorded on the block. It is a ledger shared within a computer network’s nodes.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. By selling fake raffle tickets for the promotion, the scammers raked in $438,000 worth of cryptocurrency. Don’t ruin your device.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Department of Justice announced on July 26 that it seized approximately half a million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency assets from North Korean based threat actors, who receive the funds as ransom following a ransomware operation against U.S. based hospitals. 2 , 3 ) In late July, the U.S. 5 ) More recently, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The trojan allows to hijack users’ mobile devices and steal funds from online banking and cryptocurrency accounts. Researchers pointed out that this technique allows the malware to receive a list of events to be simulated, allowing attackers to automate and scale up their operations. ” continues the report.

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