cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency industry faced another challenging year in 2024, as hacking incidents reached new heights, with $2.2 billion in digital assets stolen. This marks a 21.07% year-over-year (YoY) increase, reinforcing concerns about the vulnerabilities...

Threat actors often exploit the cloud services for cryptomining, as doing so allows them to abuse the huge computational resources available.  This enables them to significantly maximize their mining efficiency without bearing any cost. Cybersecurity analysts...

Evan Frederick Light, a 21-year-old from Lebanon, Indiana, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges to Commit Wire Fraud and to Launder Monetary Instruments. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell following...

The exploitation of crypto scams by hackers can be attributed to the inherent characteristics of cryptocurrencies that provide two critical environments that enable the concealment of illicit activities. Cryptocurrencies' decentralized nature and the anonymity...

Researchers uncovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet malware "FritzFrog" that has targeted the SSH Servers around the world. FritzFrog has breached nearly 500 SSH servers; they also infected many universities in the U.S. and Europe...

Researchers from Cisco Talos have recently detected a Lemon Duck Cryptocurrency that is targetting different businesses within sectors like the government, retail, and technology. The attacker uses various techniques to spread the malware all over...

The Team Nautilus security analysts at Aqua Security has recently caught an ongoing malicious cryptomining campaign that has upgraded to the next level while evolving its new TTPs like:-  Defense mechanismsuch malicious malware and campaignsEvasion...

In the 2021 RSA conference, the best cybersecurity industry came together to present numerous ideas on how to stop cybercriminals from carrying out their crimes. At the other end, the cybercriminals were holding their...

 Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced that it has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack, resulting in the theft of over $230 million from one of its multisig wallets on the X platform. https://twitter.com/WazirXIndia/status/1813981143437611440 The breach...

Rodriguez and Hill, founders of the cryptocurrency mixing service Samourai, have been arrested for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and facilitating large-scale money laundering activities. The service, operational since 2015, is accused of processing over...