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On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against three North Korean operatives. Making the announcement, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers condemned the North Korean program, the most famous branch of which is Lazarus Group. Demers said:"North Korea’s operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency
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Federal prosecutors struck back at a favorite tool of the ransomware community Wednesday, indicting one alleged NetWalker user, a Canadian national named Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, on wire fraud, hacking and network extortion charges, and coordinating the takedown of a victim guidebook hosted on the darkweb.The action, which included assistance from Bulgarian
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“People are paying bitcoin to criminals and claiming back cash” via insurance claims, Ciaran Martin said. Source
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They were all hit by ransomware attacks in the last year.Boaz Sobrado is a London-based data analyst and cryptocurrency enthusiast.Ransomware attacks are when hackers gain access to the computer systems of the victim, and threaten to expose them or render them useless unless the victim pays a ransom. The attacks
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Japanese Gaming Giant Capcom, creator of popular games like Resident Evil and Street Fighter, fell victim to a ransomware in early November, with attackers allegedly demanding $11 million in bitcoin in exchange for not leaking illegally obtained confidential information to the public, CryptoX Japan reported Tuesday. In a Nov. 4 press
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We all know it’s illegal to kidnap someone and ask for a ransom payment. But should it also be illegal for the victim to pay the ransom?Earlier this month the U.S. Treasury Department did just that. It notified the world that certain ransom payments are illegal, specifically those to sanctioned
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Peter Schiff is one of Bitcoin’s biggest naysayers. The well-known gold bug recently had his dirty laundry aired
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Tim Ismilyaev, CEO & Founder of Mana Security speaks on how hackers work and what minimum protective measures everyone should implement on their personal computers.The G7 countries have banded together against ransomware hacking attacks on schools, hospitals and companies. During the pandemic, this number of attacks only intensified. Representatives from
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If you assist a ransomware victim in paying out to cyber attackers, you could end up facing civil penalties, OFAC says. Source
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Government officials in Argentina are refusing to negotiate with a ransomware group that forced them to briefly close all immigration checkpoints on Aug. 27.According to a Sept. 6 report on Bleeping Computer, a group of Netwalker ransomware hackers breached Argentina's immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, on Aug. 27 and
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