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President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a "full and unconditional pardon" to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace,...

U.S. Sanctions North Korean IT Worker Network Supporting WMD Programs

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and four entities for their alleged involvement in illicit revenue generation...

Lazarus Group Targets Web3 Developers with Fake LinkedIn Profiles in Operation...

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new cyber attack campaign dubbed Operation 99 that targeted software developers looking for freelance...

North Korean IT Worker Fraud Linked to 2016 Crowdfunding Scam and...

Cybersecurity researchers have identified infrastructure links between the North Korean threat actors behind the fraudulent IT worker schemes and a 2016 crowdfunding scam. The new...

Illicit HuiOne Telegram Market Surpasses Hydra, Hits $24 Billion in Crypto...

The Telegram-based online marketplace known as HuiOne Guarantee and its vendors have cumulatively received at least $24 billion in cryptocurrency, dwarfing the now-defunct Hydra...

Hackers Exploit Aviatrix Controller Vulnerability to Deploy Backdoors and Crypto Miners

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the Aviatrix Controller cloud networking platform has come under active exploitation in the wild to deploy backdoors...

WordPress Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new stealthy credit card skimmer campaign that targets WordPress e-commerce checkout pages by inserting malicious JavaScript code into...

DoJ Indicts Three Russians for Operating Crypto Mixers Used in Cybercrime...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday indicted three Russian nationals for their alleged involvement in operating the cryptocurrency mixing services Blender.io and...

Mirai Botnet Variant Exploits Four-Faith Router Vulnerability for DDoS Attacks

A Mirai botnet variant has been found exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Four-Faith industrial routers since early November 2024 with the goal...

North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign

North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers...

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