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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

December 11, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Binance, blaven technologies, Breadcrumbs, chainalysis, CloudFlare, cryptomus, ctv news, fintrac, icon tech sro, investigative journalism foundation, mezhundarondnaya ibu sro, peter german, pq hosting, rcmp, richard sanders, russia's war on ukraine, vira krychka, Web Fraud 2.0, ws management and advisory corporation ltd, xeltox enterprises

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:38:48 +0000

A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which are physically located there.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

September 5, 2023 0 Comments 1password, A Little Sunshine, adblock plus, ars technica, chainalysis, Data Breaches, karim toubba, lastpass breach, metamask, nicholas weaver, nick bax, plex, taylor monahan, The Coming Storm, unciphered, Web Fraud 2.0, wladimir palant

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:21:07 +0000

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

July 21, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chainalysis, courtney nolan, employment fraud, erin west, FBI, ic3.gov, justin maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, react task force, The Coming Storm, vice news, Web Fraud 2.0, whatsapp, xtb-market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

June 14, 2022 0 Comments accenture security, advanced intel, anydesk, chainalysis, cirt, cisa, cobalt strike, conti ransomware, cyber incident response team, Cybercrime, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, diavol, diavol ransomware, dridex, evil corp, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, FileZilla, karakurt, karakurt extortion group, karakurt lair, karakurt team, kimberly goody, mandiant, mega.io, MFA, mimikatz, multi-factor authentication, ncc, ransomhouse, Ransomware, ransomware syndicate, rclone, tetra defense, virtual private network, vpn, wall street journal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

The post Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Independent Krebs Security

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime

March 7, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, athens university school of information sciences and technolog, begemot, bloodrush, chainalysis, conti ransomware, DDoS, demon, ghost, Gizmodo, jeffrey ladish, mango, matt novak, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pump and dump, Ransomware, squid, stern, van

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:38:36 +0000

Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies, what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office, and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

March 4, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alarm, bentley, bio, bloodrush, chainalysis, cobalt strike, conti, grant, kaktus, lemans corporation, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pin, Ransomware, reshaev, revers, salamandra, skippy, the spaniard, tramp, trickbotleaks, trump

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:20:29 +0000

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it’s like to be an employee of Conti’s sprawling organization. Today’s Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims.

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Police bust alleged operator of Bitcoin mixing service Helix

February 17, 2020 0 Comments alphabay, bitcoin, bitcoin mixer, bitcoin taint, bitcoin tumbler, bitmixer, BTC-e, chainalysis, cryptocurrency, dark net, dark web, drugs, grams, helix, larry harmon, Law & order, Money Laundering, narcotics, ohio

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:45:49 +0000

The Ohio man is charged with running a Bitcoin mixer to launder over $300m—now worth $3.6b—on behalf of Dark Net crooks trying to hide out.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wxaX5m7CMuw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>