{"id":35255,"date":"2025-07-04T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35255"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:52","slug":"hackers-behind-140m-brazil-banking-heist-turn-to-crypto-to-launder-their-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35255","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Behind $140M Brazil Banking Heist Turn to Crypto to Launder Their Loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A group of hackers that gained unauthorized access to the Central Bank of Brazil&#8217;s service provider has started laundering a portion of its $140 million haul using cryptocurrencies, according to On-chain analyst ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/263\">revealed<\/a> on Friday that between $30 million and $40 million of the stolen funds was converted to bitcoin BTC, ether ETH and Tether&#8217;s USDT through Latin American over-the-counter desks and crypto exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The June 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/brazils-cm-software-hit-by-cyberattack-central-bank-says-2025-07-02\/\">cyberattack<\/a> on C&amp;M Software involved a group of attackers bribing an employee into revealing their corporate credentials. Six financial institutions including BMP experienced unauthorized access to their reserve accounts as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The method mirrors a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/05\/22\/major-wake-up-call-how-usd400m-coinbase-breach-exposes-crypto-s-dark-side\">cyberattack on crypto exchange Coinbase<\/a> (COIN), which said that 69,000 customers were affected after customer service agents were bribed into revealing customer information.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil had previously been warming up to crypto; lawmakers in February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camara.leg.br\/proposicoesWeb\/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=2850314&amp;filename=PL%20166\/2025\">proposed a bill<\/a> to allow investment funds to gain exposure in digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>While the Central Bank of Brazil attack involved fiat currency, the use of cryptocurrency to conceal and launder the funds is an example of the industry&#8217;s dark truth when it comes to hacks and scams. <\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/07\/01\/crypto-investors-lost-usd2-5b-to-hack-and-scams-in-the-first-half-of-2025\">report<\/a> by crypto security firm CertiK revealed that crypto investors lost $2.5 billion to hacks and scams in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of hackers that gained unauthorized access to the Central Bank of Brazil&#8217;s service provider has started laundering a portion of its $140 million haul using cryptocurrencies, according to On-chain analyst ZachXBT. The researcher revealed on Friday that between $30 million and $40 million of the stolen funds was converted to bitcoin BTC, ether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-35255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}