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Hive RAT Creators and $3.5M Cryptojacking Mastermind Arrested in Global Crackdown

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Two people have been detained in Australia and the United States in relation to a purported plan to create and disseminate the remote access trojan known as Hive RAT (formerly Firebird). According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), the virus “gave the malware purchasers control over victim computers and enabled them to access victims’ […]

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29-Year-Old Ukrainian Cryptojacking Kingpin Taken into Arrest for Abusing Cloud Services

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As part of a “sophisticated cryptojacking scheme,” a 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been detained; the operation brought in over $2 million (€1.8 million) in illegal revenues. With assistance from Europol and an unidentified cloud service provider, the National Police of Ukraine captured the individual dubbed the “mastermind” of the operation on January 9 in Mykolaiv,

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