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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

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Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

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FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Panchan Golang P2P botnet targeting Linux servers in cryptomining campaign

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Researchers discovered a new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, dubbed Panchan, targeting Linux servers in the education sector since March 2022. Akamai security researchers discovered a new Golang-based P2P Botnet, tracked as Panchan, that is targeting Linux servers that has been active since March 2022.

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Updated Kmsdx botnet targets IoT devices

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The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The bot targets private gaming servers, cloud hosting providers, and certain government and educational sites. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

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The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers.

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Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

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Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading.

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Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains

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” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. The hackers were able to modify the DNS records for the NiceHash.com domain and the company was forced to immediately frozen all wallet activity to secure all user’s funds. .