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Microsoft Warns of StilachiRAT: A Stealthy RAT Targeting Credentials and Crypto Wallets
2025-03-18 07:00

Microsoft is calling attention to a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT that it said employs advanced techniques to sidestep detection and persist within target environments with an...

Hackers target AI and crypto as software supply chain risks grow
2025-03-18 05:30

The growing sophistication of software supply chain attacks is driven by widespread flaws in open-source and third-party commercial software, along with malicious campaigns that specifically...

Microsoft: New RAT malware used for crypto theft, reconnaissance
2025-03-17 18:59

​Microsoft has discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) that employs "sophisticated techniques" to avoid detection, ensure persistence, and extract sensitive information data. [...]

Garantex crypto exchange admin arrested while on vacation
2025-03-12 17:19

Indian authorities arrested Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder and one of the administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange while vacationing with his family in Varkala, India. [...]

Long Arm of the Law Comes for Russian Crypto: Why Secret Service Seized Garantex
2025-03-10 23:10

Authorities say Garantex has processed more than $96 billion in transactions since it launched in 2019.

US seizes $23 million in crypto linked to LastPass breaches
2025-03-07 19:13

U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass...

Uncle Sam charges alleged Garantex admins after crypto-exchange web seizures
2025-03-07 18:53

$96B in transactions, some even labeled 'dirty funds,' since 2019, say prosecutors The Feds today revealed more details about the US Secret Service-led Garantex takedown, a day after seizing...

U.S. Secret Service Seizes Russian Garantex Crypto Exchange Website
2025-03-07 09:23

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies has seized the website associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex ("garantex[.]org"), nearly three years after the service was...

International cops seize ransomware crooks' favorite Russian crypto exchange
2025-03-06 22:32

Did US Secret Service not get the memo, or? A coalition of international law enforcement has shut down Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, a favorite of now-defunct ransomware crew Conti and...

US seizes domain of Garantex crypto exchange used by ransomware gangs
2025-03-06 19:07

The U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex in collaboration with the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, the FBI, and Europol. [...]