BlockThreat - Week 26, 2019

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Several arrests were reported this week in UK, Netherlands, and Israel, $4.5 million in crypto assets were stolen from a major exchange in Singapore, and another Florida city settled a ransomware demand to get their computers back online. The increased number of ransomware attacks and folks choosing to pay off attackers appears to be a new trend for this month.

News:

• 6 Arrested in the UK and Netherlands in €24 million cryptocurrency theft - arrests made as a result of an investigation into typo-squatting domains targeting popular cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.

• Two Israeli brothers arrested for phishing and participating in a 2016 hack of Bitfinex - a major arrest of the actors behind various cryptocurrency compromises including the Bitfinex hack amounting to $100 million. The two brothers have allegedly used various phishing tactics, wallet malware, and other techniques.

• Second Florida city pays giant ransom to ransomware gang in a week - another small city in Florida paid 42 …