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3 Jan

Malware Hits Travelex Currency Exchange Service

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The New Year’s Eve malware attack forced Travelex employees to resort to manual operations. Foreign exchange network Travelex has shut down its mobile app and online services after a malware attack...
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13 Dec

#cyberfraud | #cybercriminals | Scam Alert: Social media gift exchange is an illegal pyramid scheme

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Secret Santa exchanges around the office or with friends and family can be fun and festive for the holidays, but a gift exchange among online friends or originating as a viral...
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23 Nov

#cyberfraud | #cybercriminals | Facebook ‘Secret Sister Gift Exchange’ Is Illegal Scam, Better Business Bureau Warns

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Facebook post that resurfaces around the holiday season has been declared as an illegal scam, according to the Better Business Bureau. The post discusses the “Secret Sister Gift Exchange,” where...
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11 Aug

Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer) data of thousands of its customers. The unknown attacker threatened the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange...
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30 Mar

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures’ Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of...
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13 Mar

Mac Software Mines Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Free Access to Premium Account

Nothing comes for free, especially online. Would you be okay with allowing a few paid services to mine cryptocurrencies using your system instead of paying the subscription fee? Most free websites and services often rely on advertising revenue to survive,...
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12 Mar

MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data

The team of security researchers—who last month demonstrated how attackers could steal data from air-gapped computers protected inside a Faraday cage—are back with its new research showing how two (or more) air-gapped PCs placed in the same room can covertly...
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25 Feb

Bitcoin #exchange founder #arrested for #allegedly lying to #financial #watchdogs

Source: National Cyber Security News The founder of a defunct cryptocurrency exchange has been arrested for allegedly lying to financial watchdogs to cover up a heist of 6,000 bitcoin. Federal prosecutors in New York charged Jon Montroll, the 37-year-old founder...
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26 Jan

Someone Stole Almost Half a BILLION Dollars from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange

Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, losing $532 million in digital assets (nearly $420 million in NEM tokens and $112 in Ripples). In 2014, Mt Gox, one...
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25 Jan

Yikes! Three armed men tried to rob a Bitcoin Exchange in Canada

As many non-tech savvy people think that Bitcoin looks like a Gold coin as illustrated in many stock images, perhaps these robbers also planned to rob a cryptocurrency exchange thinking that way. All jokes apart, we saw one such attempt...
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