U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud
May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions...
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Germany Shuts Down eXch Over $1.9B Laundering, Seizes €34M in Crypto and 8TB of Data
May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure...
38,000+ FreeDrain Subdomains Found Exploiting SEO to Steal Crypto Wallet Seed Phrases
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed what they say is an "industrial-scale, global cryptocurrency phishing operation" engineered to steal digital assets from...
Golden Chickens Deploy TerraStealerV2 to Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallet Data
The threat actors known as Golden Chickens have been attributed to two new malware families dubbed TerraStealerV2 and TerraLogger, suggesting...
Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers
Apr 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananKubernetes / Cloud Security Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted...
Docker Malware Exploits Teneo Web3 Node to Earn Crypto via Fake Heartbeat Signals
Apr 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a malware campaign that's targeting Docker environments with a...
Node.js Malware Campaign Targets Crypto Users with Fake Binance and TradingView Installers
Apr 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware Microsoft is calling attention to an ongoing malvertising campaign that makes use of Node.js...
Chinese Android Phones Shipped with Fake WhatsApp, Telegram Apps Targeting Crypto Users
Cheap Android smartphones manufactured by Chinese companies have been observed pre-installed with trojanized apps masquerading as WhatsApp and Telegram that...
Crypto Developers Targeted by Python Malware Disguised as Coding Challenges
The North Korea-linked threat actor assessed to be behind the massive Bybit hack in February 2025 has been linked to...
SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images
A new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple's and Google's respective app...