Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:33:19 +0000
A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges.
Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:57:07 +0000
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| A new generation of thieves, bank robbers 2.0, seek to steal huge amounts of money as anonymously as they can. So they’ve developed a multitude of ways to pilfer cryptocurrency. Categories: Tags: bakcoinhivecrypto-currencyjackpottingmalleabilityMt GoxNicehashPieter Arntzrobber |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:48:18 +0000
On Dec. 6, 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash, a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies. As the investigation into the heist nears the end of its second week, many Nice-Hash users have expressed surprise to learn that the company’s chief technology officer recently served several years in prison for operating and reselling a massive botnet, and for creating and running ‘Darkode,” until recently the world’s most bustling English-language cybercrime forum.
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