2021-5-14 18:39 |
The ransomware gang that hacked Colonial Pipeline has had its crypto and servers seized
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The crypto industry has always had unfortunate ties to online criminals. In the early days of the crypto industry, criminals made up a large part of crypto users. However, the benefits of cryptocurrencies continue to inspire hackers to demand crypto payments to this day, particularly in ransomware attacks, such as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.
2021-6-9 14:56 | |
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Ransomware has been around for decades, but trust political figures to blame crypto for its rise. The post U.S. Senator blames crypto for rising ransomware attacks appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-6-7 09:23 | |
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Blockchain and crypto analytic firm Chainalysis has released its mid-year findings, which show that ransomware victims have paid approximately $81 million worth of crypto this year. The company noted that the $81 million figure is likely to rise in the coming days as more ransomware addresses are identified and, as such, the figure should be […] The post Hackers Have Received Over M in Crypto since January Due to Ransomware: Chainalysis Report first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-5-17 18:59 | |
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Chainalysis’ mid-year report shows total crypto paid to ransomware addresses increased by 337% in… The post Crypto ransomware payments exceed $81 million in Q1 2021 appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-5-18 13:39 | |
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Leaders from G7 intergovernmental economic organization cautioned against global surge in ransomware attacks that involved crypto payments as ransom money. These ransomware attackers often demanded paThe post G7 'concerned' about increasing cybercrimes that demand crypto ransoms appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-14 22:30 | |
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Paying ransomware hackers to decrypt infected computers doesn't always work, and may even be a crime in some countries.
2020-10-13 19:45 | |
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Malware payouts from insurance companies pose a threat to U.S. national security.
2020-10-2 19:39 | |
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A significant amount of cryptocurrency activities in the Eastern Europe is related to the dark market and ransomware, according to a Chainalysis report.
2020-9-15 18:41 | |
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A new report from Chainalysis has found that Eastern Europe is responsible for more darknet activity and ransomware volume than any other region.
2020-9-15 08:30 | |
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Working together, Binance and the Ukrainian authorities captured the criminal gang that ran a ransomware campaign and laundered $42 million in cryptocurrencies over the last two years. The exchange revealed this security project just yesterday.
2020-8-19 18:39 | |
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Crypto crime joins the gig economy.
2020-8-13 20:00 | |
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Ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming the norm as the world struggles with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
2020-8-9 10:00 | |
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Cellebrite, a digital intelligence firm has released a cryptocurrency transaction tracing tool called “Cellebrite Crypto Tracer,” which would help law enforcement agencies, businesses, and analysts to trace crypto transactions being used for any illicit activity such as money laundering, terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, weapon sales, and ransomware schemes. The firm has promised to offer its […]
2020-7-30 23:46 | |
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Hackers infected the largest private hospital in Europe with ransomware.
2020-5-7 20:19 | |
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Parkview Medical Center’s system for storing patient information was infected with ransomware and rendered inoperable
2020-4-29 16:18 | |
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The study from Check Point reveals that cybercriminals are using the FBI’s name to collect ransom payments
2020-4-29 22:36 | |
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Healthcare firms affected by cryptocurrency ransomware have access to free cybersecurity assistance thanks to a new initiative
2020-3-19 16:28 | |
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Cryptojacking is a cybercrime in which websites or devices are hacked with clandestine software for mining crypto. Can it be prevented? How do Hackers ‘Cryptojack’ the Unsuspecting? Cryptojacking activities, like Ransomware deployment, is one of the fastest-growing cybercrimes.
2020-2-9 18:02 | |
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A crypto ransomware attack shut down the Mountain View-Los Altos school district servers and phone system on Wednesday. The malicious software demanded Bitcoin as ransom to restore service. District Operations Have Been Frozen By shutting down file access on the district’s servers, the crypto ransomware has created tremendous problems for teachers and administrators.
2020-2-2 22:00 | |
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Attackers demanded a payment of $6 million worth of bitcoin after hacking Travelex, a foreign currency exchange company. It is the latest victim in an explosion of ransomware attacks seeking crypto payouts.
2020-1-8 10:30 | |
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Cybercrime is growing at an exponential rate, and showing zero signs of slowing down or stopping in the near future. As technology advances, so do the tactics used by these criminals, especially surrounding crypto.
2019-12-17 21:00 | |
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With over $4b in stolen cryptocurrency so far this year in hacks alone, the growing number of Hacks, Scams, Ransomware, Ponzi schemes and other nefarious actions call for the need of an effective system for victims to attempt to reclaim these funds.
2019-11-1 15:05 | |
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are often requested by hackers after deploying ransomware on unsuspecting user’s computers due to the layer of pseudo-anonymity they provide. The leading crypto asset by market cap is once again at the center of a major ransomware attack that’s left the South African city of Johannesburg in a state of lockdown.
2019-10-31 00:00 | |
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Ransomware began to take off with the expansion of the net (easier electronic ransom payments) and advances in cryptography technology. Encryption could be a means of securing information from unauthorized access through an encoding method.
2019-9-30 18:28 | |
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Incidents of cyber crimes have surged recently and with cryptocurency adoption on the rise and technology consistently evolving, fraudsters have succeeded in hiding their identity. There has also been a rise in the number of crypto-jacking incidents and ransomware attacks all across the world.
2019-9-5 20:00 | |
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Last Wednesday, French police shut down a massive botnet that managed to install malware on over 850,000 computers. This network was partially used to distribute ransomware and carry out data theft.
2019-9-3 14:33 | |
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McAfee Labs finds that crypto jacking was up 29% and ransomware up 118% in Q1 of 2019
2019-8-30 03:30 | |
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Presenting itself as an app to help players cheat at the online battle royale game Fortnite, Syrk encrypts files on a user’s hard drive and demands a ransom paid in crypto. If the ransom is not paid, the malicious software begins deleting files one by one.
2019-8-28 18:50 | |
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A new ransomware masquerades as a Fortnite cheat and asks victims to pay up in crypto.
2019-8-27 22:00 | |
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Over the weekend, United States President Donald Trump tweeted about Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency and expressed his negative thoughts about the corporation’s idea of the future of money. He also made comments about Bitcoin, and the entire emerging financial asset class of cryptocurrencies, and spoke of their “unlawful” usage in activities like cybercrime, ransomware, and money […] The post Bitcoin Price Plummets Under $10K As Lawmakers Take on Facebook’s Crypto appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-7-17 23:27 | |
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Because it’s mostly untraceable and irreversible, cryptocurrency is still the number one choice for criminals to carry out or hide criminal activity or ill-gotten gains. The last few weeks have seen a slowly increasing number of cities in the U.
2019-7-15 20:29 | |
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Since Bitcoin launched about a decade ago and eventually became popular, many cybercriminals have pitched their tents with the number one coin and other cryptocurrencies as the preferred way to receive ransoms for their various nefarious activities.
2019-6-27 19:16 | |
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By CCN: Total costs from the crypto ransom attack last month on Baltimore’s networks is likely to exceed $18 million. According to Ars Technica, this will include $10 million to fund the full recovery of the IT infrastructure.
2019-6-6 17:40 | |
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64% of ransomware attackers launder their proceeds through crypto exchanges Attackers are now focusing on larger companies and users Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics firm, informed that 64% of ransomware attackers cash out their funds through crypto exchanges.
2019-6-3 09:31 | |
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U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis claims that 64% of ransomware attack cash-out strategies involve the laundering of funds via cryptocurrency exchanges
2019-6-1 10:25 | |
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By CCN: Most of the Baltimore City’s government systems have been locked down since May 7th as a result of the “Robbinhood” ransomware attack. The successful crypto locking has forced the city to go “manual” in most aspects of its daily business and has affected several areas of life.
2019-5-16 08:27 | |
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A study has found that most ransomware recovery services are actually just paying crypto ransoms to hackers.
2019-5-16 22:30 | |
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As bitcoin (BTC) and other digital assets keep growing in value and use case, cyberpunks are also upping their game with each passing day, formulating new ways of enriching themselves with ‘dirty crypto.
2019-5-13 17:00 | |
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Hackers in the cryptocurrency world are willing to go to great lengths to get their funds, especially when hidden attacks are not their preference. There have been many ransomware attacks, but recent actions against a small Kansas town are taking a much more personal approach.
2019-4-24 02:31 | |
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The average payout for ransomware attacks rose dramatically in the first quarter of 2019 – largely due to one variant called Ryuk.
2019-4-19 17:30 | |
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Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency.
2019-4-19 21:17 | |
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Online payment giant PayPal won a U.S. patent to protect users from losing access to their data due to a crypto ransomware attack
2019-4-19 19:27 | |
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The average cryptocurrency ransom almost doubled in Q1 2019 because of the growing appetites of Ryuk operators
2019-4-19 19:14 | |
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Online payments giant PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that could detect a type of crypto malware and mitigate its effects.
2019-4-18 15:00 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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Ransomware Attack Affects Chinese Government Officials; Is North Korea Behind? Chinese officials have been targeted by a ransomware email attack a few days ago. There are some reports that are linking the attacks to North Korea.
2019-3-16 02:44 | |
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CryptoNinjas To help fight crypto scams, blockchain asset recovery firm PrudenSolve announced it has joined Coinfirm’s AMLT Token Network, a solution allowing the global economy to provide data to fight ransomware, hacking, malware and other online fraud and scams touching the cryptocurrency economy.
2019-3-13 14:27 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange WEX, formerly called BTC-e, may have been used to launder illicit gains from the SamSam ransomware, according to PwC.
2019-3-5 15:40 | |
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CryptoNinjas Coinfirm, a provider of data to fight ransomware, hacking, malware and other online fraud and scams involving the cryptocurrency economy, announced today that its platform has been fully redesigned to better serve as a one-stop shop solution.
2019-3-5 03:50 | |
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