Crimes | ForkLog - Part 110

ForkLog 9 12.03.2021

Romanian barber charged with $620,000 cryptocurrency theft

Romania's Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism arrested a Craiova resident on suspicion of hacking the seventh-largest cryptocurrency operator in the world, based in the Cayman Islands.

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ForkLog 9 11.03.2021

Fake ad blocker caught mining Monero

Kaspersky Lab experts have detected a new malicious program that hijacks the resources of Windows-based systems to mine the Monero cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 6 11.03.2021

Moscow resident paid $11,000 to ‘cryptocurrency seller’ and did not receive any coins

A Moscow resident fell victim to a scammer who posed as a cryptocurrency seller.

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ForkLog 9 10.03.2021

Hackers gain access to 150,000 surveillance cameras at Tesla factories, jails and hospitals

A group of hackers claimed to have breached Verkada, the video-surveillance service provider, resulting in access to 150,000 cameras. Among them were cameras installed at Tesla factories, at Cloudflare, as well as in hospitals, police stations and other locations, according to Bloomberg.

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ForkLog 22 09.03.2021

Sayanogorsk resident loses nearly 2 million rubles chasing crypto profits

A local resident contacted the Sayanogorsk police after becoming a victim of scammers trying to profit from cryptocurrency trading. This was reported on the site of the local MVD.

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ForkLog 14 08.03.2021

US to launch a series of retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia, reports say

American authorities plan to conduct a series of cyberattacks on Russian systems in response to last year's breach of multiple US government agencies, which investigators attribute to Russian hackers. The New York Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

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ForkLog 11 08.03.2021

Crypto scammers dupe Russian woman out of half a million rubles

A 42-year-old resident of Cheboksary fell victim to scammers who offered her a way to earn money from cryptocurrency, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chuvash Republic.

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ForkLog 12 08.03.2021

Czechia extradites two Ukrainian hackers to the United States

The U.S. FBI, in cooperation with Czech authorities, disclosed the alleged members of an international hacking group involved in money laundering.

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ForkLog 16 08.03.2021

John McAfee says US fraud and money-laundering charges are ‘overblown’

Entrepreneur John McAfee said the U.S. authorities' fraud and money-laundering charges were exaggerated.

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ForkLog 13 06.03.2021

Hacker Mints $160 Million Worth of PAID Network Tokens

The PAID Network, an Ethereum-based project, came under attack — due to an exploit in the smart contract, the attacker minted an additional $160 million worth of native PAID tokens.

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ForkLog 14 05.03.2021

John McAfee faces up to 100 years in prison on fraud and money laundering charges

Prosecutors have charged entrepreneur John McAfee with seven counts of fraud and money laundering. The case will be heard in the Southern District of New York.

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ForkLog 21 05.03.2021

Co-founder of Floyd Mayweather-promoted ICO project sentenced to eight years in prison

The court sentenced Sohrab Sharma, one of the founders of the Centra Tech cryptocurrency project, to eight years in prison for his leading role in organizing an investor fraud scheme worth $25 million, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

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