Crimes | ForkLog - Part 134

ForkLog 19 22.09.2020

Khakassia’s top narcotics officer jailed for eight years for a bitcoin-bribe

The former head of the Khakassia Interior Ministry's drug-control department has been found guilty of receiving a bribe in cryptocurrency worth 52,000 rubles and of disclosing state secrets. The press service of the Investigative Committee of Krasnoyarsk Krai said.

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ForkLog 106 21.09.2020

Big banks drawn into $2 trillion money-laundering scandal for oligarchs and criminals

An unprecedented leak of secret US financial intelligence FinCEN files reveals criminal schemes by oligarchs from across the world, enabling them to launder about $2 trillion through the globe's largest banks between 1999 and 2017. The information was published by Cassandra, the international investigative journalism project, involving 110 media outlets from 88 countries, including ICIJ, BuzzFeed News and OCCRP.

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ForkLog 12 21.09.2020

Vladikavkaz resident embezzles 1.8 million rubles under pretext of cryptocurrency investments

The court found a Vladikavkaz resident guilty of fraud for embezzling 1.8 million rubles under the pretext of investing in cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 16 21.09.2020

LV Finance DeFi project suspected of exit scam

Organisers of the LV Finance DeFi project falsified audit results to misappropriate investors' funds, according to the Chinese analytics company SlowMist.

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ForkLog 32 18.09.2020

Bitcoin ransomware operators lose popularity with hackers

Ransomware fell out of the top threats in the first half of 2020, accounting for just 1% of all hacker attacks. This is according to Group-IB specialists.

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ForkLog 7 18.09.2020

U.S. charges five Chinese nationals in cyberattacks against hundreds of companies and crypto-jacking

U.S. authorities charged five Chinese nationals with involvement in a fraudulent scheme whose victims numbered more than 100 companies worldwide. In addition to data theft, the hackers also infected victims' computers with ransomware and engaged in crypto-jacking, according to U.S. Department of Justice documents.

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ForkLog 31 17.09.2020

Crypto miner attacked users via pirated Disney film Mulan

ESET researchers have detected a spike in malicious activity spreading via torrent files of the Disney film Mulan.

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ForkLog 28 17.09.2020

FinCEN to tighten anti-money-laundering rules amid rising threats

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed tightening rules on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. The proposal affects cryptocurrency firms and exchanges.

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ForkLog 24 17.09.2020

U.S. authorities accuse two Russian nationals of stealing $16.8 million from crypto-platform clients

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has accused two Russian citizens of fraud and organizing cyberattacks targeting clients of three crypto-service providers, according to OFAC's press release.

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ForkLog 16 16.09.2020

Opinion: The advantages of anonymous cryptocurrencies far outweigh their risks

Monero, Zcash, Dash and Grin, focused on heightened anonymity, are used less frequently for money laundering than other cryptocurrencies and do not require additional oversight, according to staff at the law firm Perkins Coie.

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ForkLog 14 16.09.2020

360lock Blockchain Padlock Cracked With a 1kg Hammer

A smart padlock, 360lock, based on the Ethereum blockchain, was cracked with a simple Bluetooth attack and a 1 kg hammer. The experiment was conducted by researchers from Pen Test Partners.

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ForkLog 21 14.09.2020

Study finds overwhelming share of cloud-server attacks target cryptojacking

95% of attacks on compromised cloud servers are aimed at covert cryptocurrency mining, according to a report by Aqua Security.

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