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Baltimore’s Bitcoin Ransom Attack Amounts to $18 Million, Hackers’ $80,000 Demand Gets Unfulfilled
It has been recently revealed that Baltimore’s latest crypto ransom attack resulted in nearly $18 million spent on recovery. The attack, which supposedly took place on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, not only had the city scrambling to get the effects eliminated to the best of their abilities, but also left them deciding on whether hackers’ […] дальше »
2019-6-7 05:05
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Бесплатные BTC в обмен на троян, крадущий пароли
На сайтах, бесплатно предлагающих Ethereum, рекламируется новая мошенническая схема, в рамках которой проводится аттракцион невиданной щедрости по бесплатной раздаче биткоина. Новый криптоскам был обнаружен независимым исследователем по безопасности, известном в Твиттере как Frost. дальше »
2019-5-27 12:46
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Baltimore City’s Government System’s Bitcoin Ransomware Extortion Attack Enters 8th Day
Over a week after a cyberattack halted Baltimore’s computer networks, city officials declared Wednesday they can’t prognosticate when its overall system will be up and running and continued to give only the broadest outlines of the problem. дальше »
2019-5-16 20:22
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Study Finds Most Ransomware Solutions Just Pay Out Crypto
A study has found that most ransomware recovery services are actually just paying crypto ransoms to hackers. дальше »
2019-5-16 22:30
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Google Research, Universities Release ‘Tracking Ransomware End-To-End’ Bitcoin Attacks Report
Google Research Shows Ransomware Criminals Cash Out $16 Million From Bitcoin Exchange According to a recently released report and research conducted by Google and leading US universities, $16 million were cashed out by criminals from the defunct Bitcoin exchange BTC-e. дальше »
2019-5-9 22:31
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Ransomware Crooks Cashed Out $16 Million from Defunct Bitcoin Exchange: Google Research
By CCN: In the two years leading up to 2018, a spate of ransomware attacks were analyzed in a report by a team of researchers hailing mostly from leading U. S. universities and Google. Results showed a conservative estimate of total funds stolen to be $16 million, with bitcoin providing a way for malicious actors to take payment from anywhere in the world. дальше »
2019-5-9 11:50
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Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data
GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab speak on recent attacks on user repositories. Hacker has yet to fill crypto wallet with demanded random payments. GitHub is a platform for open-source codes that many developers use to test out protocols and adapt to their own uses. дальше »
2019-5-4 16:28
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Nigerian Scammers Still At Large with $50,000 In Bitcoin, According to Feds
Fraud in the cryptocurrency industry is one of the sorest subjects, and the recent theft at the hands of two Nigerian nationals has not helped the case. TNW Hard Fork recently reported on these two fraudsters that have managed to complete multiple Bitcoin investments scams, taking $50,000 in Bitcoin from the hands of investors. Even […] дальше »
2019-4-26 17:06
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Malware Crypto Ransoms Rose By Almost 90% in Q1: Report
The average payout for ransomware attacks rose dramatically in the first quarter of 2019 – largely due to one variant called Ryuk. дальше »
2019-4-19 17:30
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The Average Bitcoin Ransomware Payment has Risen to $12,762
In the cryptocurrency world, it would appear most of the discussions pertaining to ransomware have quieted down. Not because the industry is no longer lucrative, but simply because such attacks have seemingly become so common it isn’t necessarily newsworthy anymore. дальше »
2019-4-18 11:08
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Cryptojacking: Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining Is not a Crime, Japanese Court Rules
A court in Japan has acquitted an individual accused of embedding a cryptojacking malware in his website to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency using the computing power of the visitors to the site. Local Japanese media platform, The Mainichi reports that the court ruled that such activity wasn’t a criminal offense. Meanwhile, Internet security experts continue toRead More дальше »
2019-3-29 20:00
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Dutch Bitcoin Ransom DDoS Hacker Gets No Additional Jail Time
Netherlands seems to be the place to operate elaborate Bitcoin ransom schemes from. A man who extorted over $150,000 from several online services by DdoSing them and submitting a ransom request pleaded guilty last month and admitted wrongdoing. дальше »
2019-3-19 02:00
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Research Suggests Russian-Based Hackers Behind Ryuk Ransomware’s $2.5 Million Gains
Researchers argue that a recent spate of ransomware thought to have earned hackers $3.7 million in BTC came from Russian cybercriminals, not North Korean state-sponsored actors
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Report: No Correlation Between Crypto Mining Attacks and Legal Status of Cryptocurrency in the Country
The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies has forced cybercriminals to invest resources in the development of more robust mining technologies to replace the typical ransomware Trojans, reports Kaspersky Lab’s cyber threat research arm Securelist, November 28, 2018. дальше »
2018-12-1 00:00
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Alaskan City of Valdez Pays off Bitcoin Ransom After Four Months
Officials from the City of Valdez are in the final phases of recovering information from its servers after four months of it being held by cyber-criminals demanding a bitcoin ransom, KTUU reported on November 18, 2018. дальше »
2018-11-20 00:00
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West Haven City Council Pays $2,000 Ransomware Demand
Ransomware attacks are still a pressing problem in 2018. Although such stories have seemingly become less apparent in the past few months, the city of West Haven in Connecticut was forced to make a crucial decision. дальше »
2018-10-27 21:09
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Bitcoin Ransomware Strikes Port of San Diego
A cybersecurity breach at the Port of San Diego on September 25 described as “serious cybersecurity incident” by Port CEO Randa Conglio was, in fact, a ransomware attack by cybercriminals demanding bitcoin. дальше »
2018-10-1 02:00
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McAfee Labs Confirms Cybersecurity’s Worst Nightmares
You already knew this, but let me throw another coal on the fire. Cybercrime is rampant, widespread, indiscriminate, and worst of all–on the rise. That’s not just speculation but confirmed in the McAfee Labs Threat report released yesterday. дальше »
2018-9-26 12:19
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Gone in 60 Seconds – 7 Scary Statistics About the Evil Internet Minute
Plenty of things can happen in a minute. And when it comes to your security online, those 60 seconds are enough to send your business into a tailspin. As companies around the world look to increase their online presence and create more touchpoints with their customers, the attack surface grows ever larger. In what RiskIQ […] дальше »
2018-9-1 02:00
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The PGA Falls Victim To Bitcoin Ransomware Attack
While cryptocurrency prices have taken a tumble, with valuations falling by upwards of 70%, ransomware still seems to be a medium of attack for cryptocurrency-focused hackers. As per an article from Golfweek, the Professional Golfers Association, a group of the best golfers from around the globe, has fallen under a cyberattack. дальше »
2018-8-10 21:51
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Iranian Hackers using Ransomware to hoard Bitcoin
With its economy already in shambles and with harsh sanctions from the United States looming, Iran has been increasingly turning to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to make transactions. Of course hackers from the country are also in on this cryptocurrency gold rush. дальше »
2018-8-9 21:42
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Bitcoin Ransomware Creator Sentenced
The developers behind the CoinVault and BitCryptor ransomware were sentenced to 240 hours of community service in a Dutch court on Thursday. Melvin and Dennis van de B., aged 25 and 21, were convicted of accusing 1,259 computers in the Netherlands and other Western European countries with the ransomware and demanding bitcoin payments as a дальше »
2018-7-27 00:57
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Cybersecurity professionals stay up at night due to these top five threats
If you’d asked any cybersecurity professional around this time last year what the greatest threat to cybersecurity was, they’d have undoubtedly said ransomware. While no one will deny it’s still a (massive) problem, other types of cybercrime are beginning to spread like the bubonic plague. дальше »
2018-7-14 08:45
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Top 5 Threats Keeping Cybersecurity Professionals Up at Night
If you’d asked any cybersecurity professional around this time last year what the greatest threat to cybersecurity was, they’d have undoubtedly said ransomware. Now worth over a billion dollars a year (and rising), with attacks like WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya wreaking havoc, every expert worth their salt was planning ways to stay ahead of the hackers. […] дальше »
2018-7-14 05:00
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Cryptojacking Rises as Ransomware Declines, Cyber Security Researchers Find
Two of the leading international cyber security firms, one from Russia and one from the USA, have both published their finds at the end of June showing an increase in the malware threats market share of cryptojacking at the expense of ransomware. дальше »
2018-7-2 00:20
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Cryptojacking Overcomes Ransomwear as Online Threat
A new cybersecurity report from Kaspersky Labs notes a significant decline in the amount of ransomware targeting Internet users as compared to the growing increase of cryptojacking, in a report published June 27. дальше »
2018-6-30 23:53
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Cryptojacking Up 629% in Q1 2018, Says McAfee Report ‘Infect and Collect’
Cryptojacking malware activity rose a staggering 629 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new report published by cyber security firm McAfee Labs June 27. Cryptojacking is the practice of using a computer’s processing power to mine for cryptocurrencies without the owner’s consent or knowledge. The McAfee Labs Threats Report for June дальше »
2018-6-29 16:27
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Kaspersky Warns on Rapid Spread of Malicious Crypto Miners Mobiles Next?
This is largely because crypto mining is now more profitable than ransomware, according to the report. In a press release, Kaspersky explained that it compared data from April 2016–March 2017 with data from April 2017–March 2018. дальше »
2018-6-29 16:02
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FBI looks into 100+ Cyrpto-Related cases
These cases “encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, kidnapping and ransomware attacks.” Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space FBI’s 130 Crypto-Related Cases The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly “has 130 cases tied to cryptocurrencies,” according to Supervisory Special Agent Kyle Armstrong. “There are thousands of cases in the дальше »
2018-6-28 12:09
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