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Europol has announced that it has uncovered a €69 million ($75 million) ‘ malware dropping’ plot as part of a worldwide criminal crackdown dubbed ‘Operation Endgame.’ Carried out between May 27 and 29, Endgame, which was led by France, Germany and the Netherlands, targeted droppers such as IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot. It eventually saw four individuals arrested, took down over 100 servers across the globe, and seized over 2,000 domains. The unnamed individual alleged to have been behind the scheme that raked in $75 million in Crypto currency, reportedly made their fortune renting out criminal infrastructure and deploying malicious software. As outlined by Europol, “Malware droppers are a type of malicious software designed to install other malware onto a target system. They are used during the first stage of a malware attack, during which they allow criminals to bypass security measures and deploy additional harmful programs, s...

The self-proclaimed ‘Ontario Crypto King,’ who was allegedly kidnapped during his bankruptcy and reportedly owes $40 million in misappropriated crypto investments, is apparently still splashing the cash.  Crypto investor Aiden Pleterski owes former clients $40 million in crypto and forex investments after reportedly spending just 2% of their funds on investments while $16 million was plowed into hired jets, luxury cars, and his Ontario mansion.   So far, roughly 160 investors filing the case against Pleterski in the Ontario Superior Court have clawed back close to $3 million. However, despite this and Pleterski’s ongoing bankrupt cy, the CBC reports that he’s not curbed his frivolous spending and currently describes himself as a professional streamer who’s “unemployed with income.” His lavish lifestyle reportedly includes driving both a McLaren and a Lamborghini, spending $150,000 on Lego , and offering to fly a woman from Sydney to Melbourne on his next tri...

Sam Bankman-Fried ’s defense team filed a motion on Sunday evening that states that he has “not [had] his prescribed dose of Adderall during trial hours,” with the footnote that he “has been given one dose between 4:00 am and 6:00 am… which wears off by the time trial starts at 9:30 am.” The footnote also clarifies that Bankman-Fried receives a second dose of Adderall “between approximately 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm.” The motion alleges that Bankman-Fried “will not be able to meaningfully participate in the presentation of the defense case” without having access to “a 12-hour extended-release 20mg dose of Adderall in the morning before he is transported to the courthouse.” The motion cleverly includes the caveat that “even if [SBF is given extended-release Adderall] there is no way of knowing… whether [it] will be effective.” The motion, as filed by Bankman-Fried’s defense team. Read more: Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team failed to crack Caroline Ellison Real problem or p...