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bitdefender.com · medium

Malone Lam pleads guilty to leading gang that stole over $245 million in cryptocurrency via social engineering

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean who used the aliases "Anne Hathaway", "$$$" and "King Greavy", has pleaded guilty to leading a group that stole more than US $245 million in cryptocurrency from victims across the United States. According to the US Department of Justice, the group operated from October 2023 to May 2025 and recruited a…

thehackernews.com · high

Fake Web3 'Apex Accelerator' (REF8801) uses malicious npm packages to deploy stealers, CloudSyncD backdoor and hijack AI agent traffic

Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…

securelist.com · high

MacSync macOS stealer returns with binary droppers, iCloud calendar staging and a backdoor targeting crypto users and developers

Kaspersky researchers describe a new MacSync macOS infostealer variant, first seen in the wild in September 2026, that replaces the earlier AppleScript-based droppers with FAT Mach-O binaries written in Objective-C and Swift. MacSync is sold as malware-as-a-service, so delivery varies by operator. In this campaign it spread through malici…

sentinelone.com · high

Weekly CTI roundup: Ryuk access broker sentenced, TraderTraitor FLATROOF/ROOFDECK macOS backdoors, AI-agent skimming of 600K cards

This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…