Crimes | ForkLog - Part 121

ForkLog 9 15.12.2020

The Guardian: Australian Bitcoin scam sites registered to Russian residents

Tens of thousands of Australians were harmed by fraudulent investment offers using images of local celebrities. The scheme's operation centers on five addresses in central Moscow. The Guardian reports.

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ForkLog 11 15.12.2020

In Ukraine, a network of call centres laundered more than 42 million hryvnias in cryptocurrency

Kharkiv police uncovered a group of criminals posing as bank employees who stole money from citizens' accounts, according to the department's press service.

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ForkLog 15 15.12.2020

Hacker uses renBTC to move Nexus Mutual founder’s funds to Bitcoin addresses

The attacker who stole the Nexus Mutual founder’s funds used the renBTC tokenised-Bitcoin protocol to withdraw 137 BTC to two addresses.

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ForkLog 10 15.12.2020

Hackers who stole 20 million rubles from Russians’ bank cards arrested; funds moved into cryptocurrencies

Law enforcement in Chuvashia identified hackers who, over five years, stole more than 20 million rubles from customers of Russian banks. The criminals converted the stolen funds into cryptocurrencies, according to RIA Novosti.

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ForkLog 23 15.12.2020

DoppelPaymer ransomware operators sent 262 BTC to Binance

The Indrik Spider hacker group, which developed the DoppelPaymer ransomware, sent part of the funds to the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to analytics company Whitestream.

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ForkLog 25 14.12.2020

Hacker drains founder’s personal address of DeFi protocol for $8 million

An unknown attacker siphoned more than $8 million in native NXM tokens from the personal wallet of Nexus Mutual founder Hugh Karp.

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ForkLog 21 14.12.2020

Ledger users lose another 60 BTC to a fake data leak

Unknown attackers continue to rob Ledger hardware-wallet users through a phishing campaign. This time they are offering to update the wallet after an alleged leak of personal data of 115,000 customers. ForkLog said this was reported by a user.

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ForkLog 22 14.12.2020

Media: Russian hackers breached U.S. Treasury systems

Russia-linked hackers breached the U.S. Treasury and one of the Department of Commerce's divisions, Reuters and The Washington Post reported.

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ForkLog 23 11.12.2020

BuzzFeed News: Facebook profits from fraudulent advertising

Facebook, the social network, tolerates scammers, hackers and disinformation agents because they bring it money. BuzzFeed News reached this conclusion after its own investigation.

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ForkLog 25 11.12.2020

Hackers demand $132 million in Bitcoin for 7TB of MySQL databases

In the dark web, 250,000 MySQL databases are for sale at 0.03 BTC per unit (about $530 at the time of writing). The total value of the data exceeds $132 million.

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ForkLog 11 10.12.2020

Elliptic: 13% of Bitcoin crime proceeds laundered through anonymous wallets

Malicious actors have increasingly used anonymity-focused cryptocurrency wallets to launder bitcoins obtained through criminal activity. The finding comes from Elliptic's research.

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ForkLog 10 10.12.2020

US court sentences Argyle Coin founder to prison term

In the United States, the founder of the Argyle Coin cryptocurrency project, Jose Angel Aman, was found guilty of orchestrating a $25 million Ponzi scheme. The decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida is stated in a Justice Department press release.

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