Bitfinex Hack Mastermind Behind $10 Billion Theft Gets Early Release

Ilya Lichtenstein, the man behind the massive 2016 Bitfinex Bitcoin theft, has been released early from prison. Read how the First Step Act and a trail of Walmart gift cards led to this major update in one of the world's largest crypto thefts...

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North Korean Hackers Pull Off $308M Bitcoin Heist from Crypto Firm DMM Bitcoin

Japanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors. "The theft is affiliated with TraderTraitor threat activity, which is also tracked as Jade Sleet, UNC4899, and Sl...

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware...

Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face...

NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack

By Waqas The guilty couple goes by the names of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack...

Man used brother’s credentials to steal $4.8M seized Bitcoin

By Waqas Gary James Harmon, a 31-year-old man from Cleveland, Ohio, has been sentenced to four years and three months… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man used brothers credentials to steal $4.8M seized Bitcoin...

Crypto ATM Manufacturer General Bytes Suffers $1.5m Bitcoin Theft

By Habiba Rashid The company has disclosed the wallet addresses and three IP addresses used by the attacker in the hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crypto ATM Manufacturer General Bytes Suffers $1.5m Bitcoin Theft...

FBI traces and grabs back $150 million theft that was turned into bitcoins

On December 1, 2021, the Tokyo police arrested an employee of Sony Life Insurance on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining 17 billion yen through an illegal money transfer from an overseas unit. On the same day 3,879 bitcoins, worth about $150 million, were seized by law enforcement, and on the...

Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. Analysis of forecasts...

Financial Cybercrime: Following Cryptocurrency via Public Ledgers

This is Part II of a two-part series on how cybercrooks embrace and use cryptocurrency. To read Part I, please click here. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous, it’s possible to follow the money through public ledgers to see what those transactions actually are and how they flow. This allows ...

Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says hes confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for using a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware t...

16 Cybercriminals Behind Mekotio and Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Arrested in Spain

Spanish law enforcement agencies on Wednesday arrested 16 individuals belonging to a criminal network in connection with operating two banking trojans as part of a social engineering campaign targeting financial institutions in Europe. The arrests were made in Ribeira A Coruña, Madrid, Parla and...

RubyGems Packages Laced with Bitcoin-Stealing Malware

RubyGems, an open-source package repository and manager for the Ruby web programming language, has taken two of its software packages offline after they were found to be laced with malware. RubyGems provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries in the service of building...

Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams

Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account...

23% of Tor browser relays found to be stealing Bitcoin

By Sudais Asif The threat actor was able to see the user's transmitted data on the Tor browser and tamper with it for their own ill-motives. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 23% of Tor browser relays found to be stealing Bitcoin...

Electrum Python Console Security Vulnerability

Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client software, and Python console is one of the Python console programs.A security vulnerability exists in the Python console in Electrum versions 2.9.4 and earlier, and versions 3.x through 3.0.5. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to steal...

Bitcoin Stealers Hide in 700+ Ruby Developer Libraries

About 760 malicious libraries, bent on stealing Bitcoin, have been identified so far in the open-source Ruby programming language code base. According to Tomislav Maljic, threat analyst at ReversingLabs, cybercriminals have been using simple typosquatting to carry out their plan – which is the...

Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who've recently re-indicted him on related charges. NiceHash CTO Matjaž "Iserdo...