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

By Newsroom
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

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

By Newsroom
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

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

By THN
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

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

By Ravie Lakshmanan
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

History revisited: US DOJ unseals Mt. Gox cybercrime charges

By Naked Security writer
Though the mills of the Law grind slowly/Yet they grind exceeding small/Though with patience they stand waiting/With exactness grind they all...

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

By Ravie Lakshmanan
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

Traffic Light Protocol for cybersecurity responders gets a revamp

By Paul Ducklin
Traffic lights make a handy global metaphor for denoting the sensitivity of cybersecurity threat data - three colours that everyone knows.

US Government says: Patch VMware right now, or get off our network

By Paul Ducklin
Find and patch. Right now. If you can't patch, get it off the network. Right now! Oh, and show us what you did to comply.

Colonial Pipeline facing $1,000,000 fine for poor recovery plans

By Paul Ducklin
How good is your cybersecurity? Are you making the same mistakes as lots of other people? Here's some real-life advice...

Ransomware Survey 2022 – like the Curate’s Egg, “good in parts”

By Paul Ducklin
You might not like the headline statistics in this year's ransomware report... but that makes it even more important to take a look!

Sophos 2022 Threat Report: Malware, Mobile, Machine learning and more!

By Paul Ducklin
The crooks have shown that they're willing to learn and adapt their attacks, so we need to make sure we learn and adapt, too.

S3 Ep56: Cryptotrading rodent, ransomware hackback, and a Docusign phish [Podcast]

By Paul Ducklin
Latest episode - listen now! Serious security explained with personality in plain English.

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