Belarusian National Linked to BTC-e Faces 25 Years for $4 Billion Crypto Money Laundering

By Newsroom — February 5^th 2024 at 16:36

A 42-year-old Belarusian and Cypriot national with alleged connections to the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges related to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money services business. Aliaksandr Klimenka, who was arrested in Latvia on December 21, 2023, was extradited to the U.S. and is currently being held in custody. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty

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SMTP Smuggling: New Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Security and Spoof Emails

By Newsroom — January 3^rd 2024 at 10:42

A new exploitation technique called Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) smuggling can be weaponized by threat actors to send spoofed emails with fake sender addresses while bypassing security measures. "Threat actors could abuse vulnerable SMTP servers worldwide to send malicious emails from arbitrary email addresses, allowing targeted phishing attacks," Timo Longin, a senior security

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TeamTNT's Silentbob Botnet Infecting 196 Hosts in Cloud Attack Campaign

By THN — July 13^th 2023 at 15:55

As many as 196 hosts have been infected as part of an aggressive cloud campaign mounted by the TeamTNT group called Silentbob. "The botnet run by TeamTNT has set its sights on Docker and Kubernetes environments, Redis servers, Postgres databases, Hadoop clusters, Tomcat and Nginx servers, Weave Scope, SSH, and Jupyter applications," Aqua security researchers Ofek Itach and Assaf Morag said in a

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Two Russian Nationals Charged for Masterminding Mt. Gox Crypto Exchange Hack

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 13^th 2023 at 10:39

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two Russian nationals in connection with masterminding the 2014 digital heist of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. According to unsealed indictments released last week, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, have been accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins stolen from September 2011 through at

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History revisited: US DOJ unseals Mt. Gox cybercrime charges

By Naked Security writer — June 12^th 2023 at 16:58

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Cryptojacking Group TeamTNT Suspected of Using Decoy Miner to Conceal Data Exfiltration

By Ravie Lakshmanan — March 16^th 2023 at 13:39

The cryptojacking group known as TeamTNT is suspected to be behind a previously undiscovered strain of malware used to mine Monero cryptocurrency on compromised systems. That's according to Cado Security, which found the sample after Sysdig detailed a sophisticated attack known as SCARLETEEL aimed at containerized environments to ultimately steal proprietary data and software. Specifically, the

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