According to INTERPOL, it created a “global stop-payment mechanism” that made it possible to retrieve the most amount of money ever stolen in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. This event follows the mid-July 2024 BEC scam victimisation of an unidentified Singaporean commodities firm. It is a kind of cybercrime in which a malevolent actor […]
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The Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has acknowledged that $230 million worth of bitcoin assets were stolen as a result of a security incident that affected it. The corporation released a statement stating that “a cyber attack occurred in one of our [multi-signature] wallets involving a loss of funds exceeding $230 million.” “This wallet was operated
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A 17-year-old Walsall kid has been taken into custody by British law enforcement on suspicion of being a member of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime ring. “In connection with a global cyber online crime group which has been targeting large organisations with ransomware and gaining access to computer networks,” West Midlands police said, the arrest
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An Australian man has been accused of setting up a fake Wi-Fi network on a domestic flight in order to obtain user information and credentials. The 42-year-old, who has not been identified, “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,”
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Unidentified threat actors exploited an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to find information connected to Authy accounts, including user phone numbers, according to cloud communications provider Twilio. The business claimed to have secured the endpoint so that it could no longer receive requests without authentication. This happened just a few days after a user going by
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was released from a high security prison at Belmarsh, England, and left the country after more than five years of imprisonment for what the US government called the “largest compromises of classified information” in its history. Assange, 52, entered a guilty plea to one single count of arranging to
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The Paradigm Initiative, a digital rights organisation, has discovered that millions of Nigerians’ personal data is being sold on the internet for as little as 100 Naira (7 cents). This contains private information like a person’s phone number, driving licence, international passport, tax identification number (TIN), permanent voter’s card (PVC), driving licence, bank verification number
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An ongoing effort of cryptojacking has been brought to light by cybersecurity researchers, which mines Dero money using misconfigured Kubernetes systems. The activity was made public by cloud security company Wiz, which stated it was an enhanced version of a financially driven operation that CrowdStrike had initially reported on in March 2023. Wiz researchers Avigayil
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The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken disclosed that an anonymous security researcher had taken advantage of a “very critical” zero-day vulnerability in its system to pilfer $3 million worth of digital assets, and was refusing to give them back. Chief Security Officer of Kraken, Nick Percoco, provided details of the incident on X (formerly Twitter). He said
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This comes as the Department of Justice (DoJ) has unsealed an indictment charging James Pepaire-Bueno, 28, of New York, and Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, with conspiring to commit money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The maximum sentence for each of them is 20 years in prison. “The charges in the
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