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Threat Actors Target Ledger Data Breach Victims in New Extortion Campaign

14

May

2021

Blackmailers are having a field day capitalizing on victims of the Ledger data leak from July 2020. Nearly a year after cybercriminals gained access to the e-commerce database of the France-based crypto wallet company, a new extortion campaign threatens users’ financial and emotional well-being. This novel attempt at extorting victims, spotted by Bitdefender Antispam Lab […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 developers blackmailed after hackers steal plans for upcoming video game

12

Jun

2017

Are you such a video game fanatic that you simply can’t wait to get your paws on sneak previews of upcoming hit titles?
If so, your fervour may be fuelling the criminal activities of an unnamed group of who have targeted a developer of highly popular video games.

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Malware Steals Image Files from Systems

02

Nov

2012

It appears that information theft has taken a new form: we’ve found a malware that steals image files from all drives of an affected system and then sends them to a remote FTP server.Detected as TSPY_PIXSTEAL.A, this particular malware opens a hidden command line and copies all .JPG, .JPEG, and .DMP files. Both .JPG and […]

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