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Professional stealers: opportunistic scammers targeting users of Steam, Roblox, and Amazon in 111 countries

indie
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- Over 50 million passwords stolen in 7 months of 2022- Underground market value of stolen logs and compromised card details around US$5.8 million- India saw the highest number of infected devices in the Asia Pacific, followed closely by Indonesia, Philippines and VietnamSingapore, Nov 29, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Group-IB, one of the global leaders in cybersecurity, has identified 34 Russian-speaking groups that are distributing info-stealing malware under the stealer-as-a-service model. The cybercriminals use mainly Racoon and Redlinestealers to obtain passwords for gaming accounts on Steam and Roblox, credentials for Amazon and PayPal, as well as users' payment records and crypto wallet credentials. In the first seven months of 2022, the gangs collectively infected over 890,000 user devices and stole over 50 mln passwords. All the identified groups orchestrate their attacks through Russian-language Telegram groups, although they mainly target users in the United States, Brazil, India, Germany, and Indonesia. In 2022, info-stealing malware has grown into one of the most serious digitalthreats.Classiscam graduates By tracking the evolution of the popular scam sche...

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Waterdrip Capital to Become the Lead Investor of TRUE on the Asian Market

pandora
3 minutes

NEW YORK, NY, April 20, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – TRUE joins the pool of interest of Waterdrip Capital which becomes its lead investor on the Asian market. TRUE is an ecosystem to create and deliver next gen NFT utilities to GameFi industry and everyday life. The company is set to grow in a decentralized multi-chain infrastructure to guide brands, developers and users to the world of Web 3.0. “TRUE helps traditional brands with transition from web2 to web3 world, and the experience of its team members will assure the success,” said Yushan Zheng, Co-founder, Waterdrip Capital. Waterdrip Capital is a foundation started in 2017 by the most forward-thinking Chinese blockchain pioneers as an international investment institution focusing on blockchain industry. The company will become a solid backup for TRUE to provide the project with the mighty take-off and introduction to the top-tier funds, exchanges and KOLs. Waterdrip actively invests in various fields of the blockchain ecosystem, including public chains, protocol layers and applications, especially Polkadot, DPOS ecosystem, COSMOS/IRISnet ecosystem, Defi applications, DAO applications, in total more than 50 blockchain projects worldwid...

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Teen involved in SG Nasi Lemak chat group pleads guilty to possessing obscene films

aseanpr
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SINGAPORE - An 18-year-old student pleaded guilty on Wednesday (Oct 21) to one charge of possessing obscene films on his mobile phone. He was among four men arrested last October in islandwide raids to bring down the SG Nasi Lemak chat group, which was used as a platform for sharing obscene photos and videos of Singaporean girls. The student, who cannot be named under the Children and Young Persons Act, was found with 59 video files containing obscene material stored in his mobile phone. The files were classified as obscene as they contained explicit depictions of a variety of sex acts and close-up depictions of genitalia. Two charges involving the sharing of obscene material were also taken into consideration. The four arrested were all charged over their alleged involvement in transmitting obscene material in the Telegram chat group, which hosted upskirt images of women. Police seized more than 10 electronic devices, including a central processing unit, a laptop, a hard disk and several mobile phones, as case exhibits. Another man linked to the case, Justin Lee Han Shi, was sentenced last Friday to a year's probation after he admitted to sharing obscene films with other members i...