Indian National Pleads Guilty to $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Scheme

An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over charges of stealing more than $37 million by setting up a website that impersonated the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform. Chirag Tomar, 30, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in pris...

New Phishing Kit Leverages SMS, Voice Calls to Target Cryptocurrency Users

A novel phishing kit has been observed impersonating the login pages of well-known cryptocurrency services as part of an attack cluster codenamed CryptoChameleon that's designed to primarily target mobile devices. "This kit enables attackers to build carbon copies of single sign-on SSO pages, the...

SPV Merkle proof malleability allows the maintainer to prove invalid transactions

Summary By publishing specially crafted transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the SPV maintainer can produce seemingly valid SPV proofs for fraudulent transactions. The issue was originally identified by Least Authority in the tBTC Bridge V2 Security Audit Report as Issue B: Bitcoin SPV Merkle...

PT-2024-40497 · Bitcoin · Bitcoind

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bitcoin affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows an attacker to create seemingly valid SPV proofs for fraudulent transactions by publishing specially crafted transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. This is achieved by...

Leaving Authentication Credentials in Public Code

Interesting article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software code: Researchers from security firm GitGuardian this week reported finding almost 4,000 unique secrets stashed inside a total of 450,000...

Malware in coinbase-wallet-sdk

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

MAL-2023-1030 Malicious code in coinbase-wallet-sdk (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 1892cfeefb3909aa3aed58c0112f2bc9fcb0a762f2242e57c991846a6b8bc875 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in coinbase-wallet-sdk (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 1892cfeefb3909aa3aed58c0112f2bc9fcb0a762f2242e57c991846a6b8bc875 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malware in coinbase-mobile

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

MAL-2023-198 Malicious code in coinbase-mobile (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 97d10c10cdb864741306ba012b858134b0cd20f7890b57f31eab5ca403df160c Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in coinbase-mobile (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 97d10c10cdb864741306ba012b858134b0cd20f7890b57f31eab5ca403df160c Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

WordPress Coinbase Commerce for Contact Form 7 Plugin <= 1.1.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Coinbase Commerce for Contact Form 7 Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.1.1 Fixed in 1.1.2 OWASP Top 10 A3: Injection Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2023-33999 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID 3aedb19051d2 Credits Rafie...

New Malware Campaign Leveraging Satacom Downloader to Steal Cryptocurrency

A recent malware campaign has been found to leverage Satacom downloader as a conduit to deploy stealthy malware capable of siphoning cryptocurrency using a rogue extension for Chromium-based browsers. "The main purpose of the malware that is dropped by the Satacom downloader is to steal BTC from...

@aprilsacil/wallet (>=0.1.36, <=0.1.51), @chainfuse/react (>=0.0.46, <=0.1.0-dev.96) +15 more potentially affected by CVE-2023-30543 via @web3-react/coinbase-wallet (>=8.0.31-beta.0, <=8.0.34-beta.0)

@web3-react/coinbase-wallet NPM version =8.0.31-beta.0, =0.1.36, =0.0.46, =0.0.70, =0.0.6-alpha.0, =0.1.0, =0.0.1, =0.1.0, =0.13.29, =0.1.20, =0.0.1, =0.0.2, =0.0.11, =0.1.31 and more Source cves: CVE-2023-30543 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-8PF3-6FGR-3G3G...

@aprilsacil/wallet (>=0.1.36, <=0.1.51), @chainfuse/react (>=0.0.46, <=0.1.0-dev.96) +15 more potentially affected by CVE-2023-30543 via @web3-react/coinbase-wallet (>=8.0.31-beta.0, <=8.0.34-beta.0)

@web3-react/coinbase-wallet NPM version =8.0.31-beta.0, =0.1.36, =0.0.46, =0.0.70, =0.0.6-alpha.0, =0.1.0, =0.0.1, =0.1.0, =0.13.29, =0.1.20, =0.0.1, =0.0.2, =0.0.11, =0.1.31 and more Source cves: CVE-2023-30543 Source advisory: GHSA-8PF3-6FGR-3G3G...

@aprilsacil/wallet (>=0.1.36, <=0.1.51), @chainfuse/react (>=0.0.46, <=0.1.0-dev.96) +15 more potentially affected by CVE-2023-30543 via @web3-react/coinbase-wallet (>=8.0.31-beta.0, <=8.0.34-beta.0)

@web3-react/coinbase-wallet NPM version =8.0.31-beta.0, =0.1.36, =0.0.46, =0.0.70, =0.0.6-alpha.0, =0.1.0, =0.0.1, =0.1.0, =0.13.29, =0.1.20, =0.0.1, =0.0.2, =0.0.11, =0.1.31 and more Source cves: CVE-2023-30543 Source advisory: MEND:CVE-2023-30543...

Coinbase Employee Falls for SMS Scam in Cyber Attack, Limited Data Exposed

Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its "cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information."...

Coinbase Employee Falls for SMS Scam in Cyber Attack, Limited Data Exposed

Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its "cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information."...

Coinbase Employees Targeted by SMS Phishing Attack

By Waqas The SMS phishing attack smishing was followed by a phone call from a scammer to one of the employees who fell for the scam. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Coinbase Employees Targeted by SMS Phishing Attack...

APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware

North Korean APT Lazarus is up to its old tricks with a cyberespionage campaign targeting engineers with a fake job posting that attempt to spread macOS malware. The malicious Mac executable used in the campaign targets both Apple and Intel chip-based systems. The campaign, identified by...