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The newly founded National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, part of the US Department of Justice (DoJ), announced its first enforcement operation…
Embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX has claimed that $415m worth of digital currency has been stolen by hackers. The bankrupt firm…
Ransomware payments fell by over 40% in 2022 compared to 2021, with victim organizations increasingly reluctant to pay their extorters,…
North Korea-backed threat actors have stolen more than $2bn in cryptocurrency this year to fund the hermit state’s missile and…
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that North Korea’s Lazarus Group and APT28 were behind the $100m…
Several cybercrime predictions have been made for 2023. Thales, for example, has outlined 16 potential trends to watch, stating that…
A previously unknown, financially motivated North Korea state-sponsored threat actor has been observed testing several infection methods in the wild…
Security experts claim to have discovered the first “cryptorom” scam applications to have successfully bypassed Apple’s strict App Store vetting…
North Korean state-backed hackers and insecure decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols helped to make 2022 a record year for cryptocurrency heists,…
A US man could face a maximum jail term of 40 years after being charged with fraudulently obtaining $110m of…