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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

March 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chris larsen, Data Breaches, FBI, karim toubba, lastpass breach, nick bax, ripple, taylor monahan, U.S. Secret Service, zachxbt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:20:05 +0000

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.

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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

February 1, 2024 0 Comments 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, ars technica, blackcat ransomware, carter rohn, cisa, Data Breaches, elliptic, emily hernandez, FBI, ftx, kroll, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nick bax, powell sim swapping crew, r$, robert powell, scattered spider, SIM swapping, tom robinson, unciphered

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.

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Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

January 13, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, ethan mora, judge helena m. march-kuchta, mark rasch, nick bax, ryan dellone, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:39:37 +0000

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. The case is thought to be the first in which a federal court has recognized… Read More »

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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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Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House

October 15, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amlbot, antinalysis, incognito chain, nick bax, polina smoliar, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:08:59 +0000

AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems.