Free Thanatos Ransomware Decryption Tool Released

If your computer has been infected with Thanatos Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files—your search is over here. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a weakness in the Thanatos ransomware code that makes it possible f...

Files Cannot Be Decrypted? Challenge Accepted. Talos Releases ThanatosDecryptor

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Andrew Williams. Executive summary Cisco Talos has analyzed Thanatos, a ransomware variant that is being distributed via multiple malware campaigns that have been conducted over the past few months. As a result of our research, we...

WannaCry Extortion Fraud Reemerges

Extortion emails that threaten recipients with a WannaCry infection if they don’t pay up are making the rounds in the UK and elsewhere. The activity prompted an alert Friday from the City of London’s Action Fraud unit, which said at the time that police had already received almost 300 reports in...

DDoS-Happy ‘Bitcoin Baron’ Sentenced to Almost 2 Years in Jail

The Bitcoin Baron, a self-proclaimed vigilante responsible for DDoS attacks on civic networks in Madison, Wisc., San Marcos, Texas, and other sites in 2015, has been collared in Phoenix and sentenced to serve 20 months in prison. The conviction and sentencing is only for the former attack, in whi...

June 21, 2018—KB4284842 ( Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Bitcoin Baron Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Randall Charles Tucker 23 from Arizona, who goes by the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin Baron Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attacks...

A week in security (June 11 – June 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how to protect the online privacy of children, we gave you a spring 2018 overview of exploit kits, rounded up the ongoing discussions about the VPNFilter malware, and discussed the struggles of UK law enforcement with modern-day cybercrime. Other news...

ClipboardWalletHijacker malware replaces address to steal cryptocurrency

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Qihoo 360 Total Security have discovered This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ClipboardWalletHijacker malware replaces address to steal cryptocurrency...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Bitcoin falls after Korean exchange loses $40M following hack attack

By Waqas Coinrail, a South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange has suffered a massive This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin falls after Korean exchange loses $40M following hack attack...

bitcoin.com Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-628687 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bitcoin.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Wordpress Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...

Regulating Bitcoin

Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a "balance"...

Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack

By Waqas Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin Gold loses over $18 million after hack attack...

Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams

As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to boom in 2018, it has also tempting target for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.” Researchers at Proofpoint this week said they’ve observed a sharp rise in these scams, which target users of Ethereum and Bitcoin...

CVE-2018-10831

Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that allows attackers to spoof mining shares, as demonstrated by providing a solution with x1=1,x2=1,x3=1,...,x512=1 to bypass this verifier for any blockheader. This originally affected for example the Bitcoin Gold and Zcash...

Input validation

Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that allows attackers to spoof mining shares, as demonstrated by providing a solution with x1=1,x2=1,x3=1,...,x512=1 to bypass this verifier for any blockheader. This originally affected for example the Bitcoin Gold and Zcash...

CVE-2018-10831

Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that allows attackers to spoof mining shares, as demonstrated by providing a solution with x1=1,x2=1,x3=1,...,x512=1 to bypass this verifier for any blockheader. This originally affected for example the Bitcoin Gold and Zcash...

CVE-2018-10831

CVE-2018-10831 involves Z-NOMP prior to 2018-04-05 with an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that lets attackers spoof mining shares. An attacker can bypass the verifier for any blockheader by supplying a solution such as {x1=1, x2=1, …, x512=1}. This vulnerability affected Bitcoin Gold and Zc...

CVE-2018-10831

Z-NOMP before 2018-04-05 has an incorrect Equihash solution verifier that allows attackers to spoof mining shares, as demonstrated by providing a solution with x1=1,x2=1,x3=1,...,x512=1 to bypass this verifier for any blockheader. This originally affected for example the Bitcoin Gold and Zcash...

SamSam ransomware: what you need to know

SamSam ransomware is a custom infection used in targeted attacks, often deployed using a wide range of exploits or brute-force tactics. Based on our own run-ins with the infection, we've observed that attacks were made on targets via vulnerable JBoss host servers during a previous wave of SamSam...