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Man sentenced to six years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swapping

Issued by: Security Affairs

Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars of cryptocurrency using a SIM swapping. The man conducted SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ phone numbers tricking the mobile operator employees into porting…

Software Security

‘KandyKorn’ macOS Malware Lures Crypto Engineers

Issued by: Dark Reading

The infamous North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group Lazarus has developed a form of macOS malware called “KandyKorn,” which it is using to target blockchain engineers connected to cryptocurrency exchanges. According to a report from Elastic Security Labs, KandyKorn has a full-featured set of capabilities to detect, access, and steal any data from the…

Malware & Threats

Romanian cybercrime gang Diicot builds DDoS botnet with Mirai variant

Issued by: CSO Online

A cybercriminal group calling itself Diicot is performing mass SSH brute-force scanning and deploying a variant of the Mirai IoT botnet on compromised devices, according to researchers. The group also deploys a cryptocurrency mining payload on servers with CPUs that have more than four cores. “Although Diicot have traditionally been associated with cryptojacking campaigns, Cado…

News

Gozi banking malware “IT chief” finally jailed after more than 10 years

Issued by: Naked Security

Yesterday, we wrote about cybercrime charges that were finally unsealed for a massive cryptocurrency heist that was allegedly conducted over a three-year period starting back in 2011. Today’s long-term cybercrime justice story concerns the last member of the so-called Gozi Troika, three men who were originally charged in January 2013 for malware-related crimes that apparently…

Vulnerabilities

How Cybercriminals Are Operationalizing Money Laundering and What to Do About It

Issued by: Dark Reading

It’s almost impossible to pinpoint the amount of money that’s laundered globally, but conservative estimates put it at anywhere from $800 million to $2 trillion, according to the United Nations’ Office on Drug and Crimes — and that’s likely just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a crime that, in turn, fuels some of the…

Malware & Threats

Scores of Redis Servers Infested by Sophisticated Custom-Built Malware

Issued by: Dark Reading

An unknown threat actor has been quietly mining Monero cryptocurrency on open source Redis servers around the world for years, using a custom-made malware variant that is virtually undetectable by agentless and conventional antivirus tools. Since September 2021, the threat actor has compromised at least 1,200 Redis servers — that thousands of mostly smaller organizations…

Software Security

Hackers stole $3 million worth of cryptocurrency from BTC.com

Issued by: Security Affairs

BTC.com is a website that provides services for managing and transferring Bitcoin, it offers a digital wallet for storing Bitcoin, a trading interface for exchanging Bitcoin with other cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, and a mining platform for participating in the extraction of new Bitcoin coins. BTC.com is one of the largest platforms for transferring Bitcoin…

Network Security, Software Security, Vulnerabilities

NSA Cyber Specialist, Army Doctor Charged in US Spying Cases

Issued by: Security Week

In one case, cybersecurity expert Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, spent less than four weeks working at the NSA, the government’s huge and powerful signals intelligence agency, before he suddenly quit, citing family problems at the end of June. In the few weeks he was at the NSA, he printed out top secret documents, and after…