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APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware
North Korean APT Lazarus is up to its old tricks with a cyberespionage campaign targeting engineers with a fake job posting that attempt to spread macOS malware. The malicious Mac executable used in the campaign targets both Apple and Intel chip-based systems. The campaign, identified by...
Tornado Cash Developer Arrested After U.S. Sanctions the Cryptocurrency Mixer
Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is alleged to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the U.S. sanctioned the decentralized crypto mixing service. The 29-year-old individual is "suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flo...
Virtual Currency Platform ‘Tornado Cash’ Accused of Aiding APTs
The U.S. government has slapped sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash for laundering more than $7 billion in crypto cash derived from cybercriminal activity. At least $455 million of that was moved for state-sponsored Lazarus Group in part to help fund North Korea’s missile program,...
U.S. Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash for Alleged Use in Laundering
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday placed sanctions against crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, citing its use by the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group in the high-profile hacks of Ethereum bridges to launder and cash out the ill-gotten money. Tornado Cash, which allows users to move...
Predatory Sparrow massively disrupts steel factories while keeping workers safe
Stuxnets attack on Irans uranium enrichment facilities manifested fears of cyberattacks leaking into the real world. What once was theory is now upon us. Two weeks ago, multiple Iranian steel facilities experienced a cyberattack that might have been pulled off by what many cybersecurity experts i...
Latest Cyberattack Against Iran Part of Ongoing Campaign
Malware used in a crippling cyberattacks against an Iranian steel plants last week is connected to an attack that shut down the country’s rail system last year. In both cases, on malware strain was used to impact physical and critical infrastructure, according to a report from Check Point Researc...
Evil Corp Cybercrime Group Shifts to LockBit Ransomware to Evade Sanctions
The threat cluster dubbed UNC2165, which shares numerous overlaps with a Russia-based cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, has been linked to multiple LockBit ransomware intrusions in what's seen as an attempt by the latter to get around sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury in December 2019...
U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers
Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's malicious cyber intrusions. That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S...
US Courts Are Coming After Crypto Exchanges That Skirt Sanctions
A newly unsealed opinion is likely the first decision from a US federal court to find that cryptocurrencies can't be used to evade sanctions...
GitHub Blocks Accounts of Two Large Russian Banks Amid US Sanctions
By Waqas As of now, this move has mainly impacted two large banks reportedly Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, and some individual… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GitHub Blocks Accounts of Two Large Russian Banks Amid US Sanctions...
Lazarus Group Behind $540 Million Axie Infinity Crypto Hack and Attacks on Chemical Sector
The U.S. Treasury Department has implicated the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group aka Hidden Cobra in the theft of $540 million from video game Axie Infinity's Ronin Network last month. On Thursday, the Treasury tied the Ethereum wallet address that received the stolen digital currency to the thre...
Ethereum Developer Jailed 63 Months for Helping North Korea Evade Sanctions
A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. "There is no question North Korea poses a national...
U.S. Treasury Department Sanctions Russia-based Hydra Darknet Marketplace
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned Hydra, the same day German law enforcement authorities disrupted the world's largest and longest-running dark web marketplace following a coordinated operation in partnership with U.S. officials. The sanctions are part of an "international effort...
FCC Adds Kaspersky and Chinese Telecom Firms to National Security Threat List
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC on Friday moved to add Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab to the "Covered List" of companies that pose an "unacceptable risk to the national security" of the country. The development marks the first time a Russian entity has been added to th...
Anti-war open-source software developer targets Russians and Belarussians with “protestware”
Russia is in the midst of its fourth week of attack against Ukraine. People worldwide have been increasingly and passionately showing support for Ukrainians since day one while condemning the atrocities of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian military, and Belarus, its allied country...
U.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyber Attacks
The U.S. government on Monday once again cautioned of potential cyber attacks from Russia in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west on the country following its military assault on Ukraine last month. "It's part of Russia's playbook," U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement,...
Russia Issues Its Own TLS Certs
Russia is offering its own trusted Transport Layer Security TLS certificate authority CA to replace certificates that need to be renewed by foreign countries. As it is, a pile of sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is gumming up its citizen’s access to websites. As it is...
Russian Pushing New State-run TLS Certificate Authority to Deal With Sanctions
The Russian government has established its own TLS certificate authority CA to address issues with accessing websites that have arisen in the wake of sanctions imposed by the west following the country's unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine. According to a message posted on the Gosuslugi publi...
Russia May Use Ransomware Payouts to Avoid Sanctions
Russia may ramp up ransomware attacks against the United States as a way to ease the financial hurt it’s under due to sanctions, U.S. federal authorities are warning. Those sanctions have been levied against the nation and Vladimir Putin’s government due to its invasion of Ukraine. The Financial...