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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

February 1, 2024 admin 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, Ars Technica, blackcat ransomware, carter rohn, cisa, data breaches, elliptic, emily hernandez, FBI, ftx, kroll, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nick bax, powell sim swapping crew, r$, robert powell, scattered spider, SIM swapping, tom robinson, unciphered

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

September 5, 2023 admin 1password, A Little Sunshine, adblock plus, Ars Technica, chainalysis, data breaches, karim toubba, lastpass breach, metamask, Nicholas Weaver, nick bax, plex, taylor monahan, The Coming Storm, unciphered, Web Fraud 2.0, wladimir palant

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:21:07 +0000

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults.