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ForkLog 24 05.08.2022

Circle downplays impact of Nomad and Slope incidents on the company

Circle Internet Financial, the company behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, was one of the investors in two projects hacked this week — Nomad and Slope.

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ForkLog 38 10.02.2022

Russian police shut down four dark-web sites with $263 million in revenue

Specialists from the K Department of the Russian Interior Ministry blocked the operation of four leading darknet sites: the Sky-Fraud forum, Trump’s Dumps, UAS Store and Ferum Shop.

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ForkLog 18 09.02.2022

Suspects tied to Bitfinex stolen assets remain jailed on $8 million bail

Accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 BTC stolen from Bitfinex, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan could post an $8 million bail only upon a ruling by a Washington court. The order issued by a magistrate judge in the Southern District of New York that had granted them that right has expired.

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ForkLog 25 09.02.2022

Those linked to Bitfinex-stolen assets traced after AlphaBay closure

The 2017 closure of the dark web AlphaBay allowed authorities to access records of transfers of Bitfinex-stolen assets to accounts on other services, enabling links to the arrests of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan.

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ForkLog 10 02.12.2021

In Russia, a carder used a video camera to steal 12 million rubles and laundered the proceeds through cryptocurrencies

The St. Petersburg police detained a 27-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, suspected of stealing funds from bank cards and transferring them into cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 12 29.03.2021

In the Russian-language internet, a spike in the sale of fake bank-card databases for Bitcoin has been recorded.

On March 23, in the .ru zone, several dozen domain names appeared offering fake databases of bank cards.

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ForkLog 8 15.03.2021

Accused of stealing residents’ bank card funds, he moved part of the money into cryptocurrencies.

An inhabitant of Sverdlovsk Oblast was charged with involvement in an organised criminal group that stole funds from bank cards. Part of the stolen money he transferred into cryptocurrencies and handed to the organiser of the criminal group.

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ForkLog 14 12.03.2021

Moldova arrests members of organised crime group over Bitcoin fraud

The Moldovan police identified the identities of two members of a criminal group who siphoned funds from citizens' bank cards and laundered them through cryptocurrency. Local media report.

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ForkLog 20 10.11.2020

CipherTrace: DeFi protocol hacks surpass $99 million since the start of the year

The amount of funds stolen in 2020 by attackers from decentralized finance protocols reached $99.5 million. The total damage to the crypto industry from hacker activity amounted to $468 million, according to a report by CipherTrace.

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Krzysztof Shpak 878 07.07.2020

Former Yahoo! Engineer Who Hacked 6,000 Email Accounts Looking for Sexually Explicit Media Avoids Jail

Californian Reyes Daniel Ruiz, who worked as a reliability engineer among other roles at Yahoo! from 2009 to 2018, abused his position by accessing Yahoo’s backend to steal “hashed” passwords, crack them and log into email accounts of women, including some coworkers.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1330 30.06.2020

U.S. University Pays Over $1M Ransom in Bitcoin to Hackers to Regain Access to Encrypted Data

On June 1, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) detected and subsequently stopped a cyber-attack, wherein threat actors obtained access to a part of the School of Medicine’s IT infrastructure. As part of the attack, the hackers encrypted a number of servers, making them temporarily inaccessible.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1087 29.06.2020

FBI Names Six U.S. States Most Vulnerable to Online Attacks

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has estimated that cybercriminals stole approximately $2 billion from victims by virtue of compromising corporate email accounts, in 2019. Criminals continued to invent new and more sophisticated types of attacks last year, although quite widespread extortion, government impersonation, and spoofing were the three crime categories newly added […]

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