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Two founders of Tornado Cash were formally accused by US prosecutors today of laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds through their cryptocurrency mixer. As a cryptocurrency mixer, Tornado Cash is appealing to cybercriminals as it offers to provide them a degree of anonymity.
The FBI warned that North Koreans are likely readying to cash out tens of millions worth of stolen cryptocurrency out of hundreds of millions stolen in the last year alone. "The FBI believes the DPRK may attempt to cash out the bitcoin worth more than $40 million dollars."
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A New York fintech biz is set to pay $1 million in fines under a US Securities and Exchange Commission order that claims it advertised "Annualized" returns on Titan Crypto of up to 2,700 percent, a number based on a "Purely hypothetical account." Titan Global Capital Management provided investment strategies to clients and prospective clients solely through a mobile app, the SEC said.
ATMs always take your card right in, don't they? So the idea of these ATM skimming crooks is they're not just interested in your card details, like a web phisher would be.
The FBI has warned of a scam in which criminals lure people into installing what they think are pre-release beta-grade phone apps to try out - only for the software to be laced with malware. By dressing up these apps as beta tests, crooks can persuade curious netizens to download and install them from outside the normal app stores, bypassing whatever passes as a review process these days.
Sam Bankman-Fried, former chief executive of crypto-disaster FTX, who has been awaiting trial for his firm's failure while in home detention with his family, has been sent to jail for attempting to intimidate witnesses. On Friday, at a hearing in New York City, Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked SBF's bail based on American prosecutors' concern that SBF was trying to tamper with the pending trial by sharing personal writings stored in Google Docs from Caroline Ellison, former CEO of FTX-affiliated Alameda Research and a former romantic partner, with the New York Times.
Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities named 'BitForge' in the implementation of widely used cryptographic protocols like GG-18, GG-20, and Lindell 17 affected popular cryptocurrency wallet providers, including Coinbase, ZenGo, Binance, and many more. Today, the analysts publicly disclosed BitForge in the "Small Leaks, Billions Of Dollars: Practical Cryptographic Exploits That Undermine Leading Crypto Wallets" BlackHat presentation, by which time Coinbase and ZenGo have applied fixes to address the problem.
Exposed Kubernetes clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset tied to bigger companies, spanning financial, aerospace, automotive, industrial, and security sectors.
In these fraudulent schemes, criminals either obtain direct access to NFT developer social media accounts or create look-alike accounts to promote "Exclusive" new NFT releases, often employing misleading advertising campaigns that create a sense of urgency to pull them off. "Links provided in these announcements are phishing links directing victims to a spoofed website that appears to be a legitimate extension of a particular NFT project," the FBI said in an advisory last week.