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A Paris Olympics venue is among 40 museums in France that were hacked last weekend and told that their financial data would be leaked unless a crypto ransom is paid. According to Le Parisien, on August 3, the director of information systems for the Grand Palais Museum, which is hosting fencing and martial arts during this year’s Games discovered that the systems that centralize financial data for numerous French museums were being targeted by Hack ers. He subsequently alerted the French cybersecurity agency, Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI). Sublime écrin au @GrandPalaisRmn !#Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/8nI790e7U5 — Maxime Perrin (@MaximePerrin56) July 30, 2024 Interior of the Grand Palais as it hosts Olympic fencing. Read more: Gemini confirms 15,000 customers impacted by banking breach The as-yet-unnamed group behind the Olympic venue hack reportedly demanded a ransom in crypto and threatened to leak the data within 48 hours . ...

AT&T reportedly paid a Hack er 5.7 Bitcoin s worth $373,646 to film themselves deleting tens of millions of customer phone calls and texts stolen from the US-based telecommunications giant. The company revealed on Friday that the data of “nearly all” of its 109 million AT&T Wireless customers was stolen by the ShinyHunters crypto ransomware group in April through its account at cloud data firm Snowflake. According to WIRED, a 5.7 bitcoin transaction took place on May 17. This was confirmed by the head of global investigations for the crypto-tracing firm TRM who added that the money was being laundered through various crypto exchanges and wallets.   WIRED reports that the Hack ers had originally demanded $1 million before AT&T negotiated to bring the ransom down to less than $400,000.  Snowflake student data seller lowers $2M bitcoin ransom demand to $150K Read more: Compound Finance and Celer Network websites compromised in ‘front-end’ attacks Accordin...

More than 100 Romanian hospitals were taken offline this month after a ransomware group attacked their IT systems, encrypted data, and demanded a bitcoin ransom worth $174,000, according to the country’s National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC). The DNSC revealed that 25 hospitals using the Hipocrate Information System (HIS) have been directly impacted, while computers in another 79 have been taken offline as authorities figure out the scale of the attack. Romania's ongoing hospital ransomware attack is getting worse. Cyber security centre said last night that 21 hospitals have had computers encrypted. A chidren's hospital was the first to get hit but now it's spread. Computers in 79 other medical facilities have been unplugged pic.twitter.com/rdsX31VhFd — Joe Tidy (@joetidy) February 13, 2024 Read more: Bitcoin ransomware gang claims to have hacked major UK water provider The Romanian security agency claims it doesn’t know who attacked the system...

Police in Ukraine are being taught by EU security experts how to tackle the rising threat of crypto crime in the country.  The training offered by the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) provides intelligence officers from Lviv the tools and know-how to track the flow of crypto assets, identify participants of transactions, and improve their investigative methods. As part of the training announcement, the Ukrainian Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) also detailed how the country has lost UAH 3 billion ($81 million) in taxes over the past 10 years through unregulated crypto exchanges.  “Currently, Ukraine lacks an appropriate regulatory framework , crypto exchanges are not regulated, and relevant regulations on the specifics of taxation of transactions with virtual assets have not been adopted,” (via BEB).  Members of the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the Prosecutor’s Office, amongst other official departments and international experts at the seminar,...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal prosecution for alleged unlawful campaign donations won’t include testimony from former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame. Information from an Aug. 14 filing by U.S. federal prosecutors shows that Ryan Salame plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right. It protects him from self-incrimination if he is subpoenaed as a witness in SBF’s criminal trial. NEW — FTX executive and GOP megadonor Ryan Salame “has represented that if subpoenaed, he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.” That’s according to a motion tonight from federal prosecutors who say that he is as of now “unavailable as a witness.” pic.twitter.com/w4mbVgl8VY — Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) August 14, 2023 Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces eight criminal charges ranging from illegal campaign financing to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. He is currently held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) after Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked ...

A legal expert who brought a liquidation application against a multilevel marketing firm responsible for soliciting ​​29,421 bitcoin ($1.7 billion) from US customers has been identified in a video where he’s seen physically and verbally abusing a domestic worker from South Africa .  Vaughn Victor can be seen abusing the now 63-year-old Antjie Bochedi on a farm in Hennenman. The video was filmed while Victor was questioning her about the murder of 56-year-old Pieter Hills and his 26-year-old son Eddie on November 2020. According to The Citizen, Victor was acting as a family spokesperson following the murders on the farm. The incident was filmed by behavioral specialist Wendy Nickland who joined Victor in the interview to help determine if any of the farm staff were lying. Despite the apparent incident, Bochedi has refused to press any charges against Victor . According to reporters who reached out to Victor, he said the re-circulating video “is part of a campaign by Mr. Loui...

A pair of Australian men behind a crypto scam conned two businesses out of AU$5.5 million ($3.7 million) have been arrested and authorities have seized a vast collection of luxury cars, high-end watches, and even a pair of nunchucks.  Back in March, Sydney police launched ‘Strike Force Scotland’ to investigate claims of the scam that allegedly dates back to 2021. As a result of this investigation, two men were arrested earlier this month. The youngest of the pair was apprehended on June 16 after police stopped his car. He was charged with three counts of deception in pursuit of financial gain and knowingly handling the proceeds of crime in relation to the alleged crypto scam. The second man was arrested five days later and charged with handling the proceeds of the crime. New South Wales police said they will “allege in court the younger man allegedly defrauded the companies using a Crypto currency scam, whilst the older man authorized the funds and arranged the disposal ...

Over the past couple of days, three incidents affecting decentralized finance ( DeFi ) projects have led to a total of around $2 million in losses. The amount may not seem much in comparison to blow-ups such as FTX or some of the larger exploits to hit the sector, but the cases demonstrate the varied nature of the dangers faced by DeFi users. Threats against DeFi protocols can come from all sides and they must defend against hackers, governance attacks, and potentially vulnerable third-party code, as these three incidents show. Atlantis Loans experienced governance attack Atlantis Loans is a lending platform on Binance’s BNB Chain, though it was abandoned by the developers earlier this year. On Saturday, former users were drained of approximately $1 million worth of crypto . Once launched, DeFi protocols are self-executing, maintained or not, and the platform continues to function. As explained in its farewell Medium post, “Atlantis Loans as a protocol is fully decentralize...