Cybercrime
Ransomware payments in H1 2024 totaled nearly $460 million and $1.58 billion have been stolen in cryptocurrency heists.
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Data Breaches
A threat actor sent over 35,000 phishing emails after hacking into Ethereum Foundation's account on a mailing list platform.
Cybercrime
CoinStats says North Korean hackers drained $2 million in virtual assets from 1,590 cryptocurrency wallets.
Cybercrime
Former security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to prison for hacking and defrauding cryptocurrency exchanges.
Data Protection
Praefortis is a new company pushing ethical and transparent recovery of lost or forgotten crypto wallet passwords.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The US seized approximately $1.4 million worth of Tether tokens suspected of being fraud proceeds from tech scams.
Nation-State
U.N. experts are investigating 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks valued at approximately $3 billion, with the money reportedly being used fund development of weapons...
Cybercrime
Daniel James Junk sentenced to six years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency through SIM swapping.
Cybercrime
$1.7 billion were stolen last year as a result of 231 cryptocurrency platform hacks, according to a report from Chainalysis.
Cybercrime
Ukrainian authorities have arrested an individual allegedly involved in a $2 million cryptojacking operation.
Cybercrime
Mandiant’s X account was hacked as a result of a brute force attack as part of a cryptocurrency scheme that earned at least $900k.
Cybercrime
Recorded Future calculates that North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are believed to have stolen more than $3 billion in cryptocurrency.
Cybercrime
US Treasury sanctions Sinbad, saying the cryptocurrency mixer is laundering funds for North Korean hacking group Lazarus.
Cybercrime
Mixin Network suspends deposits and withdrawals after hackers steal $200 million in digital assets from its centralized database.
Cybercrime
A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed after sophisticated hackers attacked 27 cryptocurrency firms via Retool.
Cybercrime
North Korean hackers stole $53 million in cryptocurrency from crypto exchange CoinEx after the hot wallet private key was leaked.
Cybercrime
FBI says North Korean hacking group Lazarus has stolen $41 million in cryptocurrency from online betting platform Stake.com.
Data Breaches
Three bankrupt cryptocurrency companies — FTX, BlockFi and Genesis — suffered data breaches following a SIM swapping attack at Kroll.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Former security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed has been arrested on charges related to the defrauding of decentralized crypto exchange Crema Finance.
Cybercrime
Two Russian nationals are charged in the US with hacking a cryptocurrency exchange and conspiring to launder the proceeds.
Artificial Intelligence
An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Malware & Threats
Artificial Intelligence
After its sandbox proxy failed, an internal OpenAI model crafted raw packets and probed AWS services trying to reach the internet.
Artificial Intelligence
Vulnerabilities
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