Scams and scandals are a dime a dozen in the crypto industry. Every morning as I open my crypto newspaper (aka Twitter), I’m almost guaranteed to find at least one piece of news relating to hacks, rug pulls, phishing attacks, wash-trading, compromised wallets, etc., across the crypto-verse. However, this is expected as most blockchains, cryptocurrencies, […]
An advanced persistent threat (APT) group with ties to Iran has refreshed its malware toolset to include a new backdoor dubbed Marlin as part of a long-running espionage campaign that started in April 2018.
Slovak cybersecurity company ESET attributed the attacks — codenamed "Out to Sea" — to a threat actor called OilRig (aka APT34), while also conclusively connecting its activities to a second
Lichtenstein and Morgan were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder nearly 120,000 bitcoins, amounting to $4.5 billion at the current exchange rate, stolen from the crypto exchange Bitfinex during a hacking attack in 2016. According to the media, at a hearing on Wednesday, a federal court ruled that the couple can leave jail […]
An advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking group operating with motives that likely align with Palestine has embarked on a new campaign that leverages a previously undocumented implant called NimbleMamba.
The intrusions leveraged a sophisticated attack chain targeting Middle Eastern governments, foreign policy think tanks, and a state-affiliated airline, enterprise security firm Proofpoint said
This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Central Government addresses concerns about penalising export-import data publication The Central Government had, through the Finance Bill, proposed the insertion of Section 135AA in the Customs Act which would make publishing of export-import data from the country, unless required by law, a punishable offence, with imprisonment of up to six months. Owing to concerns as to ambiguity in the type of data and whether publishing aggregate trade data would amount…