Illegal gambling operations depend on trafficked individuals to perform cybercriminal activities. Threat researchers at Infoblox explain how cybercriminals use trafficked people for operations such as pig-butchering scams and leverage European sports sponsorships to boost illegal gambling websites.
This week, FTX settled with the CFTC, the Mango Markets hacker sought dismissal of charges, WazirX said it will reverse trades, Solana fixed a vulnerability, the SEC sued NovaTech and settled with Ideanomics, and researchers discovered a new way to steal crypto private keys.
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Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, a $12M white hat hack on Ronin Bridge, Cryptonator indictment, potential prison sentence in Crypto.com case, a $212K Convergence hack, Do Kwon's extradition, and the FBI published a scam warning.
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This week, a Ukrainian was murdered over three bitcoins, FTX's Salame sought to postpone sentencing over a dog bite, Russian speakers drove crypto cybercrime, the FTC fined a Coinbase Group company $4.5 million, and Hong Kong police arrested scammers.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, Tornado Cash saw an uptick in use, updates on the WazirX exploit were released, Fractal ID and LI.FI published breach postmortems, and the U.S. moved to recover pig-butchering losses.
This week, WazirX, LI.FI, Dough Finance and CoinStats were breached; Satoshi Nakamoto impersonator's was charged; FTX and CFTC reached a settlement; a man was convicted of fraud; new details emerged in the Tornado Cash and SEC cases; and Taiwan set new AML rules.
A public-private effort with the codename Operation Spincaster is using intelligence related to 7,000 compromised cryptocurrency wallets and $162 million in losses to warn victims, recover funds and disrupt groups involved in crypto-powered approval phishing or pig-butchering scams.
A relatively new threat actor has compromised over 1,500 organizations worldwide since February, using open-source security tools to automate and streamline attack processes. Security researchers have tracked a significant escalation in CRYSTALRAY operations.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, Elliptic alleged that Huione Guarantee is laundering money, the sentencing dates of former FTX executives were revealed, a Paxful co-founder pleaded guilty, and Mt. Gox started to repay its debts.
The once-leading cryptocurrency exchange platform known as BitMEX pleaded guilty Wednesday to willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws to effectively serve as a money laundering vehicle from 2015 to 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Heists perpetrated by hackers netted twice as much in stolen proceeds in the first half of 2024 as they did in the first half of 2023, as the overall rise in crypto's value appears to be drawing increased focus from hackers, said blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week's stories include singer Nine Chen’s potential prosecution in the JPEX case, SEC's lawsuit Silvergate, a suspected Bittensor exploit, and Q2 crypto scam stats.
This week, crypto stealer convicted, reward for info on Crypto Queen increased, BtcTurk and CoinStats suffered cyberattacks, Lazarus blamed for Alex Lab hack, Nigeria refuted allegations of ill treatment, sentencing in Hydrogen Technology case, Binance fined in India, and FBI warned of crypto scams.
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