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Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $530 Million Theft

Data Breach Today

Coincheck Says It Was Hacked; Stolen XEM Transactions to be Blocked Coincheck, a Tokyo-based exchange, says it suffered a hack attack that led to the theft of $530 million worth of XEM cryptocurrency from its hot wallet.

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30 Docker images downloaded 20M times in cryptojacking attacks

Security Affairs

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. Half of the images discovered by the expert were using a shared mining pool, by he estimated that threat actors mined US$200,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a two-year period.

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YouTube creators’ accounts hijacked with cookie-stealing malware

Security Affairs

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums.

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Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

Krebs on Security

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 460 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for December 2022

IT Governance

The cryptocurrency exchange platform spiralled into bankruptcy last month, after a revelation that its partner firm, Alameda Research, held a significant portion of its assets in FTX’s native token FTT. As compensation for the loss we have prepared a giveaway for you in which you can double your cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 431 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)