cryptocurrency

Vladimir Putin signed a law on the regulation of mining. Vladimir Putin signed a law regulating the circulation of digital currency. The document is posted on the official portal of legal information. According to the new provisions, the government will have the right to impose bans on digital...

How a 0day vulnerability in Chrome became the key to other people's wealth. The North Korean Lazarus group used a zero-day vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser to steal cryptocurrency under the guise of a malicious online game. This was announced by Kaspersky Lab experts at the Security...

Crypto-friendly neobank Revolut said it has prevented millions of dollars in potential customer losses from fraudulent cryptocurrency transfers over the past three months. On October 7, Revolut said it had blocked "potentially fraudulent cryptocurrency transfers" worth up to $13.5 million...

Telecommunications giant AT&T will again stand trial for its role in the theft of $24 million in cryptocurrency from the founder of the BitAngels bitcoin investor group Michael Terpin through SIM swapping. The corresponding ruling was made by the Court of Appeals for the Central District of...

Threats and blackmail have long been commonplace in the world of digital assets. The FBI accuses a Los Angeles resident of orchestrating a major cryptocurrency fraud and police corruption, using them to threaten and pressure competitors. According to local authorities, Adam Iza, also known as...

Authorities have confiscated more than $6 million worth of cryptocurrency from wallets linked to Southeast Asian scammers targeting U.S. citizens through trust investment schemes. On September 26, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia reported that "one or more people" had...

Several South Korean army officers allegedly used secret military passwords as collateral when taking out a loan to buy cryptocurrencies. This is reported by local media with reference to the Ministry of Defense. According to the agency, the current officers of the military unit in Chungcheon...

The use of OCR made it possible to automate the process of collecting confidential data. Researchers from McAfee have discovered more than 280 malicious Android apps that use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal cryptocurrency data. Collectively known as SpyAgent, these apps...

Do not rush to use the advice of strangers if you have problems. GitHub is used to distribute the Lumma Stealer under the guise of fake patches posted in the project's comments. The campaign was reported by one of the members of the teloxide library. In the discussions of the developer's...

Styx Stealer developer error reveals a vast network of cybercriminals. Researchers at Check Point Research (CPR) have discovered a new malicious software product called Styx Stealer, which is capable of stealing browser data, Telegram and Discord messenger sessions, as well as cryptocurrency...

Windows and macOS users by blow. Kaspersky Lab has revealed an international cyber campaign aimed at stealing cryptocurrencies and personal data of Windows and macOS users around the world. The campaign is called Tusk. The attacks appear to be carried out by Russian-speaking attackers who use...

The group consisted of ten people from 20 to 26 years old-these are two organizers and accomplices who fraudulently appropriated virtual assets of citizens. The indictment was sent to the court, the attackers face up to twelve years behind bars. Recall that in early March of this year, the...

Researchers link the attacks to a mysterious group called Crazy Evil. Security researchers at Moonlock have discovered a new wave of activity in the AMOS malware, also known as Atomic Stealer. Attackers allegedly linked to the hacker group Crazy Evil spread malware through fake advertising...

The State Duma adopted laws regulating mining, cryptocurrency turnover and foreign digital financial assets, as well as the use of digital currency in foreign trade activities. In the final version of the document, the deputies rejected the ban on the work of crypto exchanges and did not ban...

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has put on the wanted list two cryptocurrency promoters from Hong Kong who are accused of fraud and money laundering through digital assets. According to local media, Wong Ching-kit, known as Coin Young Master, and his accomplice Mok...

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has fallen victim to cybercriminals who managed to steal assets valued at $234.9 million. The main questions now are whether the exchange will close and whether people will lose their crypto. The fact of the hack was confirmed by the exchange...

Young men posted fake ads on the Internet about the possibility of profit from investments, and after receiving funds, they appropriated them to themselves. For their actions, they face up to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property. Illegal activities were exposed by law...

Last year, PayPal customers were given the opportunity to buy, store, sell and transfer some cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC). Let us recall that the American corporation PayPal launched the first crypto service in its application back in...

Employees of Department No. 6 of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department of the Novosibirsk City Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation detained two residents of Novosibirsk who are suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the...

Cryptomixers, nesting doll services, cashing out and other ways ransomware operators launder crypto-income. As you know, cryptocurrencies are not anonymous at all. Since all transactions with them (almost all, but more on that below) are recorded in blockchains, the movement of funds is quite...