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Crypto scammers increasingly target LinkedIn users: FBI

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Cryptocurrency scammers are now increasingly targeting job-seeking candidates on the Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn. An FBI agent has reported that LinkedIn crypto scammers pose a “significant threat” to user safety. In an interview with CNBC, FBI agent Sean Ragan said LinkedIn has a problem when it comes to investment scams, and crypto scammers lure candidates under the pretext of an investment scheme. “This type of fraudulent activity is important,” Rajan said. “There are many potential victims, and there are many past and current victims.” It’s worth noting that LinkedIn claims…

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FBI says Russian hackers are examining US power systems and poses ‘current’ threat

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A senior FBI official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Russian hackers are scanning energy company systems and other critical infrastructure in the United States, and state-sponsored hacking by Russia poses an “current” threat to US national security. “The threat from Russia in a criminal sense, from a nation-state perspective, is very real — and modern,” Brian Forendran, an assistant director in the FBI’s Internet division, said during a hearing before a US House of Representatives committee. In the weeks following Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the White House and the…

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The absurd ‘Russiagate’ Pulitzer of the NY Times and Washington Post

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“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest,” the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, “that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.” Except the journalism that the Pulitzers honored — a 2018 National Reporting prize shared by The Washington Post and The New York Times for reporting on Russiagate — did no such thing. It led to a dramatic misunderstanding, suggesting that Donald Trump colluded…

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The truth about the technicians who targeted Trump

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The usual suspects are already flying in wagons around the technical “experts” who spied on Donald Trump. If their defense feels tired, it’s because we’ve been through it before. It’s Christopher Steele again. Special counsel John Durham destroyed the last bits of Steele’s credibility last year, proving that the paid ghost had relied on the slander of the notorious dossier the FBI used in the Trump investigation. The Special Adviser is now working to deconstruct that other big claim about Trump and Russia’s “collusion” – the Alpha Bank story. The…

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Left-wing press gives Hillary Clinton a pass for Russiagate

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Here’s a quick quiz: How do we know new developments in special counsel John Durham’s investigation are important? Answer: Because the New York Times and Washington Post claim that they are unimportant. Big Media messengers for the Deep State are nothing if not consistent. For years, they sold the Russia Russia Russia Hoax as the greatest story ever told. Now that the entire story has been revealed as a figment of Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambition, the suspects themselves are insisting there’s nothing to see here. They say go ahead. And…

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Trump criticizes media for ignoring Clinton spying allegations

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Former President Donald Trump criticized LameStream media on Monday for failing to cover allegations by Special Counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an Internet company to spy on Trump. “Can you imagine that, what must be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is no mention at all, zero, in the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, and CBS Fake News, the former president said in an emailed statement from his Save America PAC website. “That in itself…

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Cybercriminals Gained $14 Billion of Cryptocurrency in 2021: Sequence Analysis

Cybercriminals are now taking advantage of the ongoing obsession with cryptocurrencies to deceive potential victims and steal their digital funds. In a recent report, research firm Chainalysis revealed that fraudsters took $14 billion in cryptocurrency from victims in 2021 — 79 percent of the $7.8 billion in 2020. As of early 2022, Chainalysis said that the illicit address already held over $10 billion in cryptocurrency, most of which was held in wallets linked to crypto thefts. Notably, the rise in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), which facilitates crypto-denominated lending outside of traditional…

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Cryptocurrency scam ‘Rug pull’ cost investors over $7.7 billion in 2021: Sequence analysis

Cybercriminals are now taking advantage of the ongoing obsession with cryptocurrencies to deceive potential victims and steal their digital funds. In a recent report, research firm Chainalysis revealed that fraudsters took over $7.7 billion (approximately Rs.58,698 crore) in cryptocurrency from victims in 2021. At least 36 per cent of the victims lost more than $2.8 billion (approximately Rs 280 crore) in “rug-pull” cases. Pulling the rug is a malicious maneuver in the cryptocurrency industry where crypto developers abandon a project and run away with investors’ money. In total, cryptocurrency scams…

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The FBI has seized $2.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to the REvil ransomware group

US law enforcement authorities have seized approximately $2.3 million (about Rs 17 crore) in cryptocurrency linked to the notorious hacker group, ReVil. The accused has been identified as a Russian national suspected of having ties to REvil, who is known for ransomware attacks. REvil ransomware is a virus that blocks files, encrypts files after infection, and ignores ransom message. The message asks the victim to pay a ransom in bitcoin and when the ransom is not paid in time, the demand doubles. The companies affiliated with the ransomware gang are…

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FBI email system hacked to send fake cybersecurity warnings

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Its email servers were targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States’ federal law enforcement agency by a person who sent unsolicited emails to thousands of people warning of a dangerous cyber attack. The FBI acknowledged the case in an official statement. According to a report from sleeping computer The fake email stated that its recipients had become victims of an “advanced chain attack”. Hackers used the FBI’s public-facing email system to make emails appear legitimate. According to a report sleeping computer The fake emails claimed that…

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