SIM Swapper Abducted, Beaten, Held for $200k Ransom

A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group that specializes in cryptocurrency thefts was beaten and kidnapped last week by a rival cybercrime gang. The teens captives held guns to his head while forcing him to record a video message pleading with his crew to fork over a...

Over 39,000 Unauthenticated Redis Instances Found Exposed on the Internet

An unknown attacker targeted tens of thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet in an attempt to install a cryptocurrency miner. It's not immediately known if all of these hosts were successfully compromised. Nonetheless, it was made possible by means of a "lesser-known...

Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Hacking Incident

In what's the latest crypto heist to target the decentralized finance DeFi space, hackers have stolen digital assets worth around $160 million from crypto trading firm Wintermute. The hack involved a series of unauthorized transactions that transferred USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped...

Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 Abused For Cryptocurrency Mining, Other Malware

Users are advised to patch immediately: We found exploit samples abusing the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 in the wild for malicious cryptocurrency mining...

CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

Design/Logic Flaw

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

CVE-2022-40769

CVE-2022-40769 affects profanity up to version 1.60. The root cause is only four billion possible RNG initializations, enabling attackers to recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency. The vuln has been exploited in the wild (June 2022). Affected component: profa...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-40769

profanity through 1.60 has only four billion possible RNG initializations. Thus, attackers can recover private keys from Ethereum vanity addresses and steal cryptocurrency, as exploited in the wild in June 2022...

Botched Crypto Mugging Lands Three U.K. Men in Jail

Three men in the United Kingdom were arrested this month for attempting to assault a local man and steal his virtual currencies. The incident is the latest example of how certain cybercriminal communities are increasingly turning to physical violence to settle scores and disputes. Shortly after 1...

Hackers Targeting WebLogic Servers and Docker APIs for Mining Cryptocurrencies

Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro said it found the financially-motivated group leveraging the vulnerability to drop Python...

WordPress Cryptocurrency Pricing list and Ticker plugin <= 1.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Jeremie Amsellem in WordPress Cryptocurrency Pricing list and Ticker plugin versions = 1.5. Solution Deactivate and delete. This plugin has been closed as of September 8, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is...

FBI Seizes Stolen Cryptocurrencies

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI has recovered over $30 million in cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers earlier this year. Its only a fraction of the $540 million stolen, but its something. The Axie Infinity recovery represents a shift in law enforcements ability to trac...

Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two...

U.S. Seizes Cryptocurrency Worth $30 Million Stolen by North Korean Hackers

More than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency plundered by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group from online video game Axie Infinity has been recovered, marking the first time digital assets stolen by the threat actor have been seized. "The seizures represent approximately 10% of the total funds...

New Stealthy Shikitega Malware Targeting Linux Systems and IoT Devices

A new piece of stealthy Linux malware called Shikitega has been uncovered adopting a multi-stage infection chain to compromise endpoints and IoT devices and deposit additional payloads. "An attacker can gain full control of the system, in addition to the cryptocurrency miner that will be executed...

[Security Nation] Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scanner

!\Security Nation\ Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scannerhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon, author of the widely used open-source Nmap Security Scanner. On...