DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar,...

Ziggy Ransomware Gang Offers Refunds to Victims

The Ziggy ransomware gang announced in early February they were getting out of the cybercrime business. Now they say they’re ready to refund their victims’ money. Anyone who paid a ransom to Ziggy just needs to shoot them an email with proof of payment calculated in Bitcoin and the computer ID...

A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks SEC First

“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments...

PT-2021-4101 · Unknown +1 · Bitcoin Core +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bitcoin Core versions 0.12.0 through 0.21.1 Description: The issue is related to the incorrect replacement of a child transaction in the Bitcoin Core implementation, specifically in the PreChecks functionality. This can be exploited by a remo...

Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But over the years, botnet designers have...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

CEO of Encrypted Chat Platform Indicted for Aiding Organised Criminals

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Friday announced an indictment against Jean-Francois Eap, the CEO of encrypted messaging company Sky Global, and an associate for wilfully participating in a criminal enterprise to help international drug traffickers avoid law enforcement. Eap also known as...

Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection

By Deeba Ahmed Cybercriminals are abusing Bitcoin transactions to carry out illegal crypto mining operations while staying under the radar. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection...

Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets

A recent piece of malware from a known crypto mining botnet campaign has started leveraging Bitcoin blockchain transactions in order to hide its backup C2 IP address. It's a simple, yet effective, way to defeat takedown attempts...

Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets

A recent piece of malware from a known crypto mining botnet campaign has started leveraging Bitcoin blockchain transactions in order to hide its backup C2 IP address. It's a simple, yet effective, way to defeat takedown attempts...

DDoS Attacks Wane in Q4 Amid Cryptomining Resurgence

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks dropped significantly at the end of 2020, down 31 percent in the fourth quarter, according to researchers. The reason? Cybercriminals have switched their efforts and their botnets to cryptomining. According to an analysis from Kaspersky published Tuesday...

Egregor ransomware hit by arrests

In a collaboration between French and Ukranian law enforcement, arrests have been made that might put a dent in one of the worlds most sophisticated ransomware operations. As reported first by France Inter, law enforcement made the arrests after French authorities traced ransom payments to...

Spam and phishing in 2020

Figures of the year In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 p.p. from 2019. Most spam 21.27% originated in Russia. Kaspersky solutions detected a total of 184,435,643 malicious attachments. The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages...

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. The coordinated action seized hundreds of accounts the companies say have played a major role in facilitating the trade and often lucrati...

CVE-2021-3401

Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the discoverer...

CVE-2021-3401

Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the discoverer...

Code injection

Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the discoverer...

CVE-2021-3401

Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the discoverer...

CVE-2021-3401

Bitcoin Core before 0.19.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when another application unsafely passes the -platformpluginpath argument to the bitcoin-qt program, as demonstrated by an x-scheme-handler/bitcoin handler for a .desktop file or a web browser. NOTE: the discoverer...