Category Archives: cryptocurrency

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency

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This is pretty horrific:

…a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North Carolina couple, whose home St. Felix and one of his accomplices broke into before physically assaulting the two victims—­both in their seventies—­and forcing them to transfer more than $150,000 in Bitcoin and Ether to the thieves’ crypto wallets…

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Hacked Ethereum Foundation Account Used to Send 35,000 Phishing Emails

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A threat actor sent over 35,000 phishing emails after hacking into Ethereum Foundation’s account on a mailing list platform.
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Smashing Security podcast #379: Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions

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Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin club?

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