LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users

By Deeba Ahmed Lazarus APT group is backed by the North Korean government and is currently targeting organizations and unsuspecting users… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users...

North Korean Lazarus APT group targets blockchain tech companies

A new advisory issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the US Treasury Department Treasury, highlights the cyberthreats associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced...

FBI, U.S. Treasury and CISA Warn of North Korean Hackers Targeting Blockchain Companies

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Treasury Department, warned of a new set of ongoing cyber attacks carried out by the Lazarus Group targeting blockchain companies. Calling the activity cluster TraderTraitor,...

Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web

Researchers have found financial and technological links between the Karakurt cybercriminal group and two high-profile ransomware actors that signal a shift in business operations and an expansion of opportunities for the threat actors to target victims, they said. Karakurt—a financially motivate...

Ethereum Developer Jailed 63 Months for Helping North Korea Evade Sanctions

A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. "There is no question North Korea poses a national...

De-anonymizing Bitcoin

Andy Greenberg wrote a long article -- an excerpt from his new book -- on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child porn ring. Within a few years of Bitcoins arrival, academic security researchers -- and then companies like Chainalysis -- began to tear...

NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare

The blockchain isn’t as “anonymous” as you might think...

Blockchains Have a ‘Bridge’ Problem, and Hackers Know It

Blockchain bridges are a crucial piece of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which makes them prime targets for attacks...

A Blockchain Primer and Bored Ape Headscratcher – Podcast

Why in the world would a collection of nonfungible token NFT gorilla avatars called the Bored Ape Yacht Club BAYC, run by 30-somethings using aliases like “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” and “No Sass” and adored by celebrities, spiral on up to a multibillion-dollar valuation …and, by the way, how can yo...

$625m Stolen From Ronin Network – The Blockchain Behind Axie Infinity Game

By Waqas The company is collaborating with the law enforcement agency to recover 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC USD… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: $625m Stolen From Ronin Network - The Blockchain Behind Axie Infinity Game...

HubSpot Data Breach Ripples Through Crytocurrency Industry

A rogue employee working at HubSpot – used by more than 135,000 and growing customers to manage marketing campaigns and on-board new users – has been fired over a breach that zeroed in on the company’s cryptocurrency customers, the company confirmed on Friday. The breach has rippled through the...

CVE-2022-26534

FISCO-BCOS release-3.0.0-rc2 was discovered to contain an issue where a malicious node, via a malicious viewchange packet, will cause normal nodes to change view excessively and stop generating blocks...

Foundation Treasury initialize() function can be called by an attacker first

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In FoundationTreasury.sol the initialize function can only be called once setting the admin and operator roles which are used in other contracts. The problem is that this initialize function is not called in any deployment script which means an attacker...

QA Report

LOW : 1. Title : permitAndMulticall can be frontrun, that will lead to the user must reasign the TX Impact : In the permitAndMulticall it takes from as a user input, since all tx in the blockchain is public, a malicious user might frontrun the permitAndMulticall and providing 0 data, which will...

Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Blockchain bridge dependencies are vulnerable to an issue in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary A Remote Code Execution issue was identified within the Log4j library that is used by Fabric Gateway to provide logging functionality. Fabric Gateway is used by the IBM MQ blockchain bridge component of IBM MQ 9.1.4 and later to provide connection capability between IBM MQ queue managers...

Hackers Stole $1.7 Million Worth of NFTs from Users of OpenSea Marketplace

Malicious actors took advantage of a smart contract upgrade process in the OpenSea NFT marketplace to carry out a phishing attack against 17 of its users that resulted in the theft of virtual assets worth about $1.7 million. NFTs, short for non-fungible tokens, are digital tokens that act like...

The initialize() function can be called first by an attacker

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In Delegation.sol the initialize function sets the owner of the contract and can only be called once. The problem is that an attacker can monitor the blockchain byte code and call the initialize function first automatically before the protocol has a chan...

Microsoft Warns of 'Ice Phishing' Threat on Web3 and Decentralized Networks

Microsoft has warned of emerging threats in the Web3 landscape, including "ice phishing" campaigns, as a surge in adoption of blockchain and DeFi technologies emphasizes the need to build security into the decentralized web while it's still in its early stages. The company's Microsoft 365 Defende...

‘Ice phishing’ on the blockchain

The technologies that connect us are continually advancing, and while this brings tremendous new capabilities to users, it also opens new attack surfaces for adversaries and abusers. Social engineering represents a class of threats that has extended to virtually every technology that enables huma...

‘Ice phishing’ on the blockchain

The technologies that connect us are continually advancing, and while this brings tremendous new capabilities to users, it also opens new attack surfaces for adversaries and abusers. Social engineering represents a class of threats that has extended to virtually every technology that enables huma...