Austrian and Albanian authorities dismantled a criminal ring accused of running a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation that caused estimated losses of over €50 million ($58.5 million) to victims worldwide. [...]
22-year-old Evan Tangeman of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for laundering funds stolen in a massive $230 million cryptocurrency heist. [...]
A set of 26 malicious apps on Apple App Store impersonate popular wallets, such as Metamask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, and OneKey, to steal recovery or seed phrases and drain them of cryptocurrency assets. [...]
A British man, believed to be the leader of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. [...]
The New York Times has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back. I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing. I can’t remember if …
Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange Grinex has suspended its operations after suffering a $13.7 million hack attributed to Western intelligence agencies. [...]
The Kraken cryptocurrency exchange announced that a cybercrime group is trying to extort the company by threatening to release videos showing internal systems that host client data. [...]
A malicious Ledger Live app for macOS available from Apple's App Store has drained approximately $9.5 million in cryptocurrency from 50 victims in just a few days this month. [...]
An international law enforcement action led by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) has identified over 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [...]
The Drift Protocol lost at least $280 million after a threat actor took control of its Security Council administrative powers in a planned, sophisticated operation. [...]
The Drift Protocol lost at least $280 million after a threat actor took control of its Security Council administrative powers in a planned, sophisticated operation. [...]
Wired writes (alternate source ): Security researchers at Google on Tuesday released a report describing what they’re calling “Coruna,” a highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit that includes five complete hacking techniques capable of bypassing all the defenses of an iPhone to silently install malware on a device when it …
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Maryland man with stealing more than $53 million after hacking the Uranium Finance crypto exchange twice and laundering the proceeds through a cryptocurrency mixer. [...]
A new info-stealing malware called Torg Grabber is stealing sensitive data from 850 browser extensions, more than 700 of them for cryptocurrency wallets. [...]
Crypto-powered gift card store Bitrefill says that the attack it suffered at the beginning of the month was likely perpetrated by North Korean hackers of the Bluenoroff group. [...]
An expensive mistake : Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet. The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at …
The AppsFlyer Web SDK was temporarily hijacked this week with malicious code used to steal cryptocurrency in a supply-chain attack. [...]
A new Android malware named BeatBanker can hijack devices and tricks users into installing it by posing as a Starlink app on websites masquerading as the official Google Play Store. [...]
CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch three iOS security flaws targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna exploit kit. [...]
A U.S. government contractor's son, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U.S. Marshals Service, was arrested Wednesday on the island of Saint Martin. [...]
South Korea's National Tax Service accidentally exposed the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet in an official press release, allowing hackers to steal 6.4 billion won ($4.8M) worth in cryptocurrency. [...]
This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are supposed to work on, it installs malware on their system. News article. [...]
The number of ransomware victims paying threat actors has dropped to 28% last year, an all-time low, despite a significant increase in the number of claimed attacks. [...]
Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing the cybersecurity company of gross negligence and misrepresentation that allegedly led to a ransomware attack disrupting operations at 74 U.S. banks. [...]
A new variation of the fake recruiter campaign from North Korean threat actors is targeting JavaScript and Python developers with cryptocurrency-related tasks. [...]