Germany Shuts Down eXch Over $1.9B Laundering, Seizes €34M in Crypto and 8TB of Data

by bitroxadmin | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure and shutdown linked to the eXch cryptocurrency exchange over allegations of money laundering and operating a criminal trading platform. The operation was...

Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection

by bitroxadmin | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized

Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines...

OtterCookie v4 Adds VM Detection and Chrome, MetaMask Credential Theft Capabilities

by bitroxadmin | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using updated versions of a cross-platform malware called OtterCookie with capabilities to steal credentials from web browsers and other files. NTT Security Holdings, which...

BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S. – Dutch Operation

by bitroxadmin | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized

A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, enlisting them into a botnet for providing...

Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials

by bitroxadmin | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered source code editor. “Disguised as developer tools offering ‘the cheapest...