The Europol is increasing its efforts against terrorism, it has joined forces with EU to fight terrorist financing and money laundering. Since 1 January 2016, Europol has increased the level of integration among the nodes of the decentralised computer network of the European Union Member States’ Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), the FIU.net. “FIU.NET is a decentralised computer network […]
Russian criminals Steal $4 Million In cash with a new technique dubbed reverse ATM Attack. Russian hackers have adopted a new technique, dubbed Reverse ATM Attack to steal Millions of dollars from ATMs of financial institutions. According to the experts at security firm GroupIB, the Reverse ATM Attack allowed criminal rings in Russia to steal 252 Million […]
According to a draft document seen by the Reuters the EU plans to ban bitcoin and any form of anonymous payment online to curb terrorism funding. European Union countries are planning to ban virtual currencies and any form of anonymous payments online, even through pre-paid cards. According to a draft document seen by journalists at […]
Italian police with the support of the Europol and the FBI arrested 10 members of a criminal gang that targeted many individuals and firms across the Europe. Italian law enforcement Guardia di Finanza with the support of the Europol and the FBI arrested ten members of a criminal organization operating in Italy and involved in Internet scams. […]
The drop in the value of the Bitcoin is pushing cyber criminals to rapidly cash-out their ears with ransomware in order to monetize their efforts. The business made by exploiting Ransomware has seen better days, all because the value of Bitcoin is dropping, that means, to avoid losing more money crooks are laundering money. “They( criminals) […]
Silk Road 2.0 shut down by the FBI that arrested Blake “Defcon” Benthall, alleged operator of the underground black market specialized in the sale of drugs. The FBI announced the arrest of Blake Benthall, also known as “Defcon,” the alleged owner and operator of black market Silk Road 2.0, Ars that is following the case […]
A group of cybercriminals is proposing in the underground an application for automating rogue credit card charges dubbed Voxis platform. The cyber criminal ecosystem has a new tool in its arsenal called Voxis, the Voxis Platform is a payment gateway application which can send batches of stolen card charges to multiple gateway processors automating their returns before acquiring banks […]
The MtGox data leaked by the popular exchange was invented by hackers to infect a large audience with a Bitcoin stealer malware. Last month the biggest MtGox exchange filed for bankruptcy after it lost nearly 850,000 Bitcoins, it is a fraud, according an unknown hacker who breached into the personal blog and Reddit account of MtGox CEO, Mark Karpeles. As usual […]
A group of anonymous hackers violated the personal blog and Reddit account of the MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday. They claim to publish evidence of fraud. Bitcoin community was shocked by recent MtGox data breach, the Bitcoin exchange shuts down after it had announced to have suffered technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend […]
Largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox shut down after it had announced to have suffered technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend withdrawals for a week. The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange MtGox has shut down its website, suspending any activities, the news is that to be frightening, a real earthquake that raises a series of reflections […]