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Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation

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The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with darknet markets and ransomware hackers.  On Thursday, the official Garantex website was replaced with a notice saying the exchange’s domain has been seized by […]

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Hackers launder most of Bybit’s stolen crypto worth $1.4B

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The hackers who stole around $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit have moved nearly all of the robbed proceeds and converted them into Bitcoin, in what experts call the first phase of the money-laundering operation.  On February 21, Bybit said that a “sophisticated attack” on one of the company’s wallets resulted in the

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FBI says North Korea ‘responsible’ for $1.4 billion Bybit heist

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The FBI said the North Korean government is “responsible” for the hack at crypto exchange Bybit, which resulted in the theft of more than $1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency.  On Wednesday, the bureau released a public advisory, attributing the hack to a group known as TraderTraitor. Contact Us Do you have more information about the

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US Justice Department says cybercrime forum allegedly affected 17 million Americans

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On Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United States took down and seized two prominent hacking forums and two other related cybercriminal services.  After the takedown operations were revealed by Europol and Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice published

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International police coalition takes down two prolific cybercrime and hacking forums

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An international coalition of law enforcement agencies took down two hacking forums that had more than 10 million users, according to Europol, one of the agencies involved in the operation.  On Thursday, Europol and Germany’s police the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) announced the seizures of Cracked and Nulled. The BKA called them “the world’s two largest trading

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US government charges operators of crypto mixing service used by North Korea and ransomware gangs

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On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments of Russian citizens Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, and Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, accusing them of operating services that helped criminals launder cryptocurrency. The three were allegedly involved in operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io, two cryptocurrency mixers “that served as safe havens for laundering criminally derived

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Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment

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Kalshi’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees did ask social media influencers to promote memes about the FBI’s raid on the home of his arch rival, the CEO of Polymarket.  Both of these companies offer competing events-betting markets, a new kind of betting industry where people wager about the outcomes

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US confirms China-backed hackers breached telecom providers to steal wiretap data

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The U.S. government has confirmed that hackers with links to China breached multiple U.S. telecommunication service providers to access the wiretap systems used by law enforcement to surveil Americans. In a joint statement published on Monday, CISA and the FBI said they had uncovered “a broad and significant” cyber espionage campaign that saw PRC-affiliated actors

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FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information

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The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests. The FBI’s public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency

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