Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity giant Mandiant was hacked, attackers used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and push a cryptocurrency scam. Crooks hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Amid extreme concerns related to cyber warfare from Russia, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new information security strategy policy was launched and came into effect early this week. The post Ukraine President enforces Information Security Strategy appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

As cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, there has also been growing concern about cybercrime involvement in this sector Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial world, offering new investment opportunities and decentralized transactions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

According to DoJ PopeyeTools has offered for sale the access devices and personally identifiable information (PII) of at least 227,000 individuals and generated at least $1.7 seized $283,000 in cryptocurrency from an account linked to Sami as part of actions against the illicit activities of PopeyeTools. million in revenue.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. Security researcher ZachXBT identified the victim as Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen. The governments latest action officially secures the recovered funds. ” reported KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

reads the report published by Elastic Security Labs. Banshee Stealer can also steal cryptocurrency from different wallets, including Exodus, Electrum, Coinomi, Guarda, Wasabi Wallet, Atomic and Ledger. A list of these extension IDs is provided at the end of the blog post.” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. Nearly $100M in cryptocurrency was traded on the platform from 2018-2024, with operators taking 1-5% commissions. Source Computerworld.ch

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The US DoJ arrested two people and charged them with stealing and laundering more than $230 million worth of cryptocurrency. The duo attempted to launder the stolen cryptocurrency through crypto exchanges and mixing services. The duo attempted to launder the stolen cryptocurrency through crypto exchanges and mixing services.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2024

INTERPOL also issued a Purple Notice to warn countries about emerging fraudulent activities involving cryptocurrencies. The authorities have warned of “USDT Token Approval Scam” that allows scammers access to the victims’ cryptocurrency wallets and make unauthorized transactions. The operation led to 27 arrests and 19 indictments.

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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 4, 2025

Threat actors use weak credential brute force to gain access to target systems, then deploy cryptocurrency miners and crimeware with capabilities like data exfiltration, persistence, self-termination, and pivot attacks. West Coast to deploy info stealers and crypto miners. The malware disables remote access to entrench itself further.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

Code repository hosting service GitHub launched an investigation in a series of attacks aimed at abusing its infrastructure to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, mining). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Wiz Incident Response team reported that threat actors are exploiting the flaw in attacks in the wild to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners. Threat actors exploit the vulnerability to mine cryptocurrency with XMRig, deploy Sliver backdoors, and likely enumerate cloud permissions for potential data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A man from Orlando was sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to the theft of approximately $1M in cryptocurrency. The man was sentenced for his role in a hacking scheme that led to the theft of approximately $1M worth of cryptocurrency from dozens of victims. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting, the experts found several tokens impersonating major brands, government organizations and national fiat currencies. Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A man from Indiana pleaded guilty to stealing over $37M in cryptocurrency from 571 victims during a 2022 cyberattack. In February 2022, Light participated in a cyber attack on an investment firm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, stealing over $37,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from 571 victims.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

FBI has warned of crooks developing malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from the users. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of crooks creating malicious cryptocurrency-themed apps to steal crypto assets from investors. Inform customers whether the financial institution has a mobile application.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Threat actors have stolen $55 million worth of cryptocurrency from the bZx decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. The decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms allow users to borrow/loan and speculate on cryptocurrency price variations. The company pointed out that the incident was not a protocol hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Glove Stealer is a.NET-based information stealer that targets browser extensions and locally installed software to steal sensitive data. The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

authorities have recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen during the 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance. authorities recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen in 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance, which is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Binances BNB Chain.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft warns that threat actors are using OAuth applications cryptocurrency mining campaigns and phishing attacks. Threat actors are using OAuth applications such as an automation tool in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and other financially motivated attacks. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The gap is being abused for malicious cryptocurrency mining.” “If left unremedied and successfully exploited, this vulnerability could be used for multiple and more malicious attacks, such as a complete domain takeover of the infrastructure and the deployment information stealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Since 2021, the Crazy Evil gang has become a major cybercriminal group, using phishing, identity fraud, and malware to steal cryptocurrency. Security experts identified six Crazy Evil’s subteams, called AVLAND, TYPED, DELAND, ZOOMLAND, DEFI, and KEVLAND, which are running targeted scams for specific victim profiles. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

The malware authors claimed it can steal a broad range of data from compromised systems, including browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, and around 100 browser extensions. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Banshee Stealer)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

US authorities recovered more than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT from Axie Infinity. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus). The post $30 Million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by Lazarus from Axie Infinity was recovered appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. Threat actors are targeting these instances to install a cryptocurrency miner. SecurityAffairs – hacking, mining). ” warns Censys. ’),” Censys adds. .” bash_history).

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The authorities also seized two vehicles and €8 million worth of cryptocurrency. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, dark web) ” wrote Stan Duijf, Head of Operations Unit National Investigation and Interventions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant was likely hacked through a brute-force password attack, the company revealed. Last week, threat actors hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. ” the company said on X.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Japanese cryptocurrency platform DMM Bitcoin is closing its operations just six months after a $300 million cyber heist. DMM Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, operated by DMM Group, a large Japanese e-commerce and entertainment conglomerate. Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $304 million (48.2

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2024

and can execute remote commands through the socketServer function, including executing shell commands and stealing device information (whour). Threat actors used shell commands to search for cryptocurrency wallet keys in document, image, and cryptocurrency-related files, which were then sent to a remote source.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2023

The couple pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the hack of the cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex that took place in 2016. Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

Avast researchers analyzed the activity of a simple cryptocurrency malware dubbed HackBoss that allowed its operators to earn over $560K. The antivirus company Avast analyzed the case of a simple malware dubbed HackBoss and how it allowed its operators to earn more $560K worth of cryptocurrency since November 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

Threat actors hacked the X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and used it to publish the fake news on the Bitcoin ETF approval. Hackers hijacked the X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and used it to publish fake news on the Bitcoin ETF approval. ” Gensler wrote.

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