CryptoCurrency Archives - Page 17 of 23

US returns $154 Million in bitcoins stolen by Sony employee

The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack. […]

04 Dec

Malicious KMSPico installers steal your cryptocurrency wallets

Threat actors are distributing altered KMSpico installers to infect Windows devices with malware that steals cryptocurrency wallets. […]

25 Nov

Discord malware campaign targets crypto and NFT communities

A new malware campaign on Discord uses the Babadeda crypter to hide malware that targets the crypto, NFT, and DeFi communities. […]

17 Nov

Victims of $2 billion BitConnect fraud to get back $57 million

U.S. law enforcement authorities will start liquidating roughly $57 million worth of cryptocurrency seized from the now-defunct BitConnect crypto exchange to provide some restitution to defrauded investors. […]

05 Nov

FBI warns of increased use of cryptocurrency ATMs, QR codes for fraud

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that victims of various fraud schemes are increasingly asked by criminals to use cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes, making it harder to recover their financial losses. […]

04 Nov

Crypto investors lose $500,000 to Google Ads pushing fake wallets

Threat actors are using advertisements in Google Search to promote fake cryptocurrency wallets and DEX platforms to steal user’s cryptocurrency. […]

15 Oct

Governments worldwide to crack down on ransomware payment channels

Senior officials from 31 countries and the European Union said that their governments would take action to disrupt the cryptocurrency payment channels used by ransomware gangs to finance their operations. […]

01 Oct

Crypto platform mistakenly gives $90M to users, asks for refund

In a major blunder, cryptocurrency platform Compound accidentally paid out $90 million among its users. Shortly after the mistake, the platform’s founder began asking users to return the money—or else they would be reported to IRS, and possibly doxxed, threatened the founder. […]

01 Oct

Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw

Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers after using a vulnerability to bypass the company’s SMS multi-factor authentication security feature. […]

27 Sep

Ethereum dev admits to helping North Korea evade crypto sanctions

Cryptocurrency expert Virgil Griffith pled guilty today to assisting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in evading U.S. sanctions by conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Executive Order 13466. […]

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