Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India (Krebs on Security)

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Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family. Aleksej Bešciokov, “proforg,” “iram”. Image: U.S. Secret Service. On March 7, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment against Besciokov and the other alleged co-founder of Garantex, Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national living in the United Arab Emirates. Launched in 2019, Garantex was first sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2022 for receiving hundreds of millions in criminal proceeds,…
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Panorama de la cybermenace 2024 (11 mars 2025) (CERT-FR)

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English version : 🇬🇧 Dans cette quatrième édition du panorama de la menace, l’Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) revient sur les grandes tendances de la menace informatique ainsi que sur les éléments et incidents marquants dont elle a eu connaissance en 2024. Dans...
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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks (Krebs on Security)

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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion. On March 6, federal prosecutors in northern California said they seized approximately $24 million worth of cryptocurrencies that were clawed back following a $150 million cyberheist on Jan. 30, 2024. The complaint refers to the person robbed only as “Victim-1,” but according to blockchain security researcher ZachXBT the theft was perpetrated against Chris Larsen, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency platform Ripple. ZachXBT was the first to report on the heist, of…
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