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#pigbutchering

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Opalsec :verified:

Our latest blog post is live, check it out!

🗞️ opalsec.io/daily-news-update-s

* 👾 Obscure Programming Languages in Malware: Malware authors are getting creative, using less common languages like Rust, Nim, Phix, Lisp and Haskell to evade detection - and it works.
* 💔 $8.2 Million Seized in Crypto Romance Baiting: The DOJ just seized millions in USDT from "romance baiting" scams (aka pig butchering), with links to human trafficking in Cambodia and Myanmar. This is a stark reminder of the human element in cybercrime.

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📨opalsec.io/daily-news-update-s

Opalsec · Daily News Update: Sunday, March 30, 2025 (Australia/Melbourne)Malware authors increasingly use niche languages like Rust, Nim, and even Phix to bypass traditional security tools and complicate static analysis. The DOJ seized $8.2M in USDT from romance scams, revealing sophisticated manipulation tactics and links to human trafficking in Cambodia and Myanmar.
#cybersecurity#malware#ransomware
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JL Johnson :veri_mast:

Decent attempt at a phone number validation operation which could lead to phishing or financial scams.

If you are on the fence, check whitepages.com to see which carrier the number belongs to. No Good Samaritan is going to be texting you from a VOIP service you’ve never heard of. Particularly not Onvoy, which the bad guys tend to prefer.

When in doubt, delete and report. And please have these conversations with your parents, and your children.

SMS text message sent to Emily from Lily about a lost black dog with a photo included
Look up above the phone number on whitepages.com to see the carrier is Onvoy
#fightback#phishing#scam
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

"Huione Pay, the banking arm of what’s been called the world’s 'largest ever illicit online marketplace' (#HuioneGuarantee) has been stripped of its banking license, the National Bank of #Cambodia confirmed to RFA this week."

There's been previous reports of tens of billions of dollars moving through Huiones "anything goes" marketplace for weapons, drugs, slaves, etc. so this is possibly an interesting escalation in the crackdown on Chinese organized crime in southeast asia that seems to have been orchestrated by the #PRC (though some are sceptical if it will end up making any real difference give Huione connections to the Cambodian government).

rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/

screenshot of headline
#PigButchering#Huionepay#SEAsia
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

Google is citing a trillion dollars lost to crypto #AI scams (just on mobile devices!) in its new security blog posting.

A trillion. fucking. dollars.

Now i don't know how reliable that number is but i also don't doubt for a second that the real number is something like that, within maybe an order of magnitude.

I don't think there's too many examples in human history when non-state actor criminal groups controlled nation state levels of assets like this. in the biggest picture this is what is destabilizing the world. these guys paid for #Brexit, they paid for the #Trump campaign, took over countries in SE Asia, and so on. and it's all facilitated by crypto, mostly #Tether, #JustinSun, and #HowardLutnick.

and it’s going to get a lot worse.

security.googleblog.com/2025/0

screenshot of google security blog
#uspol#eupol#SEAsia
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Infoblox Threat Intel

We researched the domains involved and found that some had been registered at NiceNIC, which we recognize as a problematic registrar located in China. This connection to China aligns with the type of pig-butchering / fake crypto platform scams that we're seeing. What makes this case unique is the use of political disinformation as a lure.

An important lesson here is how adtech is being misused to facilitate disinformation and fraud. This is a trend you're probably familiar with if you've been following our content.

Sample of identified domains: ecno26r4jj[.]com, affiltrack5681[.]com, client[.]fx-trinity[.]com, smartbrokerreviews[.]top

#pigbutchering #scam #disinformation #canada #dns #mastodon #threatintel #cybercrime #threatintelligence #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

#HuioneGuarantee, the world's largest darknet market¹ for things like drugs, weapons, and slaves (yes, slaves) that's deeply tied to laundering #pigbutchering scam proceeds, is launching its own dollar backed #stablecoin to compete with #Tether, apparently on its own new blockchain.

welcome to the future.

elliptic.co/blog/huione-larges

¹ Huione Guarantee probably shouldn't technically be called a "darknet market" because i'm not sure it bothers to operate on the darknet and also they have significantly lower moral standards than most DNM operators around things like weapons and slaves.

#DNM#darknet#crypto
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