Security News

Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced
2024-12-10 10:15

Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde A documentary examining the 2016 Bitfinex burglars hits Netflix, bringing the curious case to living rooms for the first time.…

Radiant links $50 million crypto heist to North Korean hackers
2024-12-09 20:25

Radiant Capital now says that North Korean threat actors are behind the $50 million cryptocurrency heist that occurred after hackers breached its systems in an October 16 cyberattack. [...]

Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists
2024-11-21 01:29

DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools The US Department of Justice has issued an indictment that names five people accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency –...

Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist
2024-11-15 16:36

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. [...]

Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist
2024-11-15 14:09

A nervous wait for rapper wife who also faces a stint in the clink The US is sending the main figure behind the 2016 intrusion at crypto exchange Bitfinex to prison for five years after he stole...

New Linux Variant of FASTCash Malware Targets Payment Switches in ATM Heists
2024-10-15 14:43

North Korean threat actors have been observed using a Linux variant of a known malware family called FASTCash to steal funds as part of a financially-motivated campaign. The malware is "installed...

US indicts two over socially engineered $230M+ crypto heist
2024-09-20 17:29

Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks Two individuals are in cuffs and facing serious charges in connection to a major theft of cryptocurrency worth more than $230 million...

Hackers linked to $14M Holograph crypto heist arrested in Italy
2024-08-19 16:25

Suspected hackers behind the heist of $14,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from blockchain tech firm Holograph was arrested in Italy after living a lavish lifestyle for weeks in the country. [...]

That cyber-heist of 2.9B personal records? There's a class-action lawsuit looming for that
2024-08-05 17:58

A lawsuit has accused a Florida data broker of carelessly failing to secure billions of records of people's private information, which was subsequently stolen from the biz and sold on an online criminal marketplace. California resident Christopher Hofmann filed the potential class-action complaint against Jerico Pictures, doing business as National Public Data, a Coral Springs-based firm that provides APIs so that companies can perform things like background checks on people and look up folks' criminal records.

Ticket Heist fraud gang uses 700 domains to sell fake Olympics tickets
2024-07-10 10:33

A large-scale fraud campaign with over 700 domain names is likely targeting Russian-speaking users looking to purchase tickets for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Researchers analyzing the campaign are calling it Ticket Heist and found that some of the domains were created in 2022 and the threat actor kept registering an average of 20 new ones every month.