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Two Hyundai Group buildings in South Korea were evacuated on Friday after bomb threats. An anonymous caller demanded 13 bitcoins as a ransom in exchange for cancelling the threatened attack. Special forces searched the buildings and found no explosives.
Cryptocurrency traders are increasingly being targeted for kidnapping and extortion, as highlighted by several cases in recent weeks. A man in France was kidnapped nearly 500 kilometers after his kidnappers demanded a ransom from his crypto-influencer son over crypto networks; a trader in Pakistan was forced to transfer $340,000 at Binance; and the CEO of Canada's WonderFi was freed after paying a million-dollar ransom for kidnapping. According to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, in 2023, ...
According to the victim website listed by the ransomware group LockBit, the Federal Reserve suffered a ransomware attack.
Singaporean authorities, including the Singapore cyber security agency, have issued a joint warning to alert local businesses to the growing threat of Akira ransomware variants. The ransomware Akira, which stole $42 million from more than 250 organisations in North America, Europe and Australia in a year, is now aggressively targeting businesses in Singapore, the warning said.
