Double Your Bitcoin Script Automatic - Authentication Bypass

Exploit Title: Double Your Bitcoin Script Automatic 2018 for $50 - Authentication Bypass Date: 2018-12-08 Exploit Author: Veyselxan Vendor Homepage: https://codeclerks.com/php-programming/1007/Double-Your-Bitcoin-Script-Automatic-2018 Version: v1 REQUIRED Tested on: Linux...

Double Your Bitcoin Script Automatic - Authentication Bypass

Double Your Bitcoin Script Automatic - Authentication Bypass Exploit Title: Double Your Bitcoin Script Automatic 2018 for $50 - Authentication Bypass Date: 2018-12-08 Exploit Author: Veyselxan Vendor Homepage: https://codeclerks.com/php-programming/1007/Double-Your-Bitcoin-Script-Automatic-2018...

Bomb Threat Bitcoin Demands Cause Disruption, Evacuations

UPDATE What looks to be an alarming email scam is making the rounds, with extortionists asking for Bitcoin payment in return for not detonating a set of bombs. Multiple law-enforcement agencies in cities across the U.S. responded to calls from recipients on Thursday, concluding that the threats a...

Spammed Bomb Threat Hoax Demands Bitcoin

A new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipient's building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by the end of the business day. Sources at multiple U.S. based financial institutions reported receiving the...

Bomb Threats Emailed Around the World

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is aware of a worldwide email campaign targeting businesses and organizations with bomb threats. The emails claim that a device will detonate unless a ransom ...

Sextortion Emails Force Payment via GandCrab Ransomware

An ongoing sextortion campaign targeting thousands around the United States infects victims with the GandCrab ransomware and demands $500 to decrypt their systems. Sextortion emails typically ask for money in order to keep silent about compromising adult websites that they supposedly looked at. B...

What Happens When Victims Pay Ransomware Attackers?

For many hackers around the globe, ransomware infections have become a lucrative business. Although these types of malware samples have been around for years now, they continue to spur success - and high monetary profits - for attackers. In fact, according to a statement from U.S. Deputy Attorney...

SamSam Ransomware

Summary The Department of Homeland Security DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are issuing this activity alert to inform computer network defenders about SamSam ransomware, also known as MSIL/Samas.A. Specifically, th...

Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins

A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps. The Node.js library in question is...

Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins

A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps. The Node.js library in question is...

Malicious Package

Overview Version 0.1.1 of flatmap-stream is considered malicious. This module runs an encrypted payload targeting a very specific application, copay and because they shared the same description it would have likely worked for copay-dash. The injected code: - Read in AES encrypted data from a file...

A week in security (November 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a devastating business email compromise attack, web skimming antics, and the fresh perils of Deepfakes. We also checked out some Chrome bug issues, and took the deepest of deep dives into DNA testing. Other cybersecurity news Adobe Flash bug—get...

Julian Assange Charges, Japan's Top Cybersecurity Official, and More Security News This Week

Safer browsing, more bitcoin scams, and the rest of the week's top security news...

Bitcoin Giveaway Scam Balloons, with Google the Latest Victim

Google’s official G Suite Twitter account, which has more than 800,000 followers, on Tuesday became the latest victim of an increasingly widespread Bitcoin scam, according to researchers. The growing size and scope of the scam — as well as the cybercriminals’ success in hijacking high-profile,...

TrickBot takes over as top business threat

Last quarter brought with it a maddening number of political ads, shocking and divisive news stories on climate change and gun laws, and mosquitoes. We hate mosquitoes. In related unpleasant news, it also apparently ushered in an era of banking Trojans that, as of this moment, shows no signs of...

A week in security (November 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at browser lockers that fly under the radar with complete obfuscation, transport and logistics in our series about compromising vital infrastructure, Google logins now requiring JavaScript, how to create a sticky cybersecurity training program, and an...

StatCounter Analytics Code Hijacked to Steal Bitcoins from Cryptocurrency Users

Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using. ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou this weekend spotted malicious JavaScript code on up to 700,000 websit...

StatCounter Analytics Code Hijacked to Steal Bitcoins from Cryptocurrency Users

Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using. ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou this weekend spotted malicious JavaScript code on up to 700,000 websit...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2018

Quarterly highlights Personal data in spam We have often said that personal data is candy on a stick to fraudsters and must be kept safe that is, not given out on dubious websites. It can be used to gain access to accounts and in targeted attacks and ransomware campaigns. In Q3, we registered a...

GoUrl Bitcoin Payment Gateway < 1.4.14 - Shell Upload

The GoUrl Bitcoin Payment Gateway & Paid Downloads & Membership WordPress plugin was affected by a Shell Upload security vulnerability...