Crypto miner arrested for skipping on $3.5 million in cloud server bills
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest and indictment of Charles O. Parks III, known as "CP3O," for…
Ex-Amazon engineer gets 3 years for hacking crypto exchanges
Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July…
Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites
A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service Privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of…
KuCoin charged with AML violations that let cybercriminals launder billions
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged global cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin and two of its founders for failing to…
US sanctions crypto exchanges used by Russian darknet market, banks
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for working with OFAC-designated Russian…
New GoFetch attack on Apple Silicon CPUs can steal crypto keys
A new side-channel attack called "GoFetch" impacts Apple M1, M2, and M3 processors and can be used to steal secret…
Here’s why Twitter sends you to a different site than what you clicked
Users of the social media platform X (Twitter) have often been left puzzled when they click on a post with…
Deepfakes and AI’s New Threat to Security
The high cost of free open-source generative software. By Luke Arrigoni, Founder, Loti The rise of deepfake technology poses significant…
US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is recovering $2.3 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a "pig butchering" fraud scheme…
Bitcoin Fog mixer operator convicted for laundering $400 million
Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and…