Russian underground hack

Some papers were posted for the wider forum to appraise, including ways to manipulate APIs used by cryptocurrency platforms, the use of phishing websites to harvest keys and seed phrases, and more. Underground forum contents are nothing new, and similar forums have launched their own versions in the past asking for everything from software vulnerabilities to ATM and point-of-sale PoS exploits.

However, the cryptocurrency-focused contest does highlight how the virtual alternative to fiat currency is lucrative -- despite, or perhaps because of, the volatility of some coins -- and not just because of how cryptocurrency is abused by ransomware operators.

A security researcher kept a major Bitcoin Core vulnerability secret for two years that could be used to crash the main BTC blockchain alongside Bcoin, Btcd, and similar blockchains. This vulnerability was quietly patched before another researcher stumbled across the same issue and its existence was made public.

Other cryptocurrency and blockchain-related security problems of note this year are Akamai's discovery of a botnet using BTC mining activities and the blockchain at large as a method of obfuscation, and the use of March's Microsoft Exchange Server zero-days to install cryptocurrency mining software on vulnerable machines. Have a tip? I've changed the way I charge my iPhone. You should, too. Time for a Linux smartphone? Best iPhones : Which model is right for you?

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The REN TV channel aired footage of agents raiding homes and arresting people, pinning them to the floor, and seizing large piles of dollars and Russian roubles.

The group members have been charged and could face up to seven years in prison. A source familiar with the case told Interfax that the group's members with Russian citizenship would not be handed over to the United States.

The United States has been hit by a string of high-profile hacks by ransom-seeking cybercriminals. A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters in June that REvil was suspected of being the group behind a ransomware attack on the world's biggest meat packing company, JBS SA.

Washington has repeatedly accused the Russian state in the past of malicious activity on the internet, which Moscow denies.