On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) announced the removal of seven domain names in connection with a bitcoin “pig slaughtering” hoax. The actors received almost $10 million from five victims as part of the deceptive plan, according to the DoJ, which ran from May to August 2022. Pig butchering, also known as Sha Zhu […]
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It has been discovered that a well-known Windows information stealer by the name of ViperSoftX is used to spread a malicious extension for web browsers based on the Chromium operating system. Due to its standalone features that allow it to track website visits, steal login information and clipboard contents, and even swap cryptocurrency addresses via an
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The assault infrastructure of Robin Banks, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, has been moved to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of secure hosting services. After “Cloudflare disassociated Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its services, causing a multi-day disruption to operations,” according to a report from cybersecurity firm IronNet, the transfer was made. Since Cloudflare decided to blacklist
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In November 2021, 50,676 Bitcoin that had been taken in the 2012 attack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web bazaar were seized, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which announced the seizure on Monday. When it was uncovered last year, the bitcoin, which was acquired in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion,
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File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. “These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and
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On Wednesday, the Brazilian Federal Police reported that one person had been detained for allegedly having ties to the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion group. The arrest was made as part of Operation Dark Cloud, a new law enforcement initiative that was started in August 2022, according to the agency. Other than the possibility that the suspect
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In response to a security mistake that left an endpoint publicly available over the internet without any authentication, Microsoft this week acknowledged that it unintentionally exposed information pertaining to thousands of customers. According to a warning from Microsoft, “this misconfiguration created the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between
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An Android malware known as Triada has been discovered being used by YoWhatsApp, an unauthorized variant of the well-known WhatsApp messaging software. The malware’s objective, according to a recent report from Kaspersky, is to steal the keys that “enable the operation of a WhatsApp account without the app.” A user of a malicious WhatsApp mod
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On Friday, Meta Platforms announced that it had discovered over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it claimed were aimed at online users in order to steal their Facebook login credentials. According to a study provided with The Hacker News by the social media giant, “These programs were placed on the Google Play
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An exploit on a cross-chain bridge that stole about $100 million in digital assets was discovered by BNB Chain, a blockchain connected to the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. BSC Token Hub, a native cross-chain bridge connecting BNB Beacon Chain (BEP2) and BNB Smart Chain (BEP20 or BSC), was impacted by an exploit, it was reported last
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