Fake Trezor app steals more than $1 million worth of crypto coins

Several users of Trezor, a small hardware device that acts as a cryptocurrency wallet, have been duped by a fake app with the same name. The app was available on Google Play and Apple’s App Store and also claimed to be from SatoshiLabs, the creators of Trezor. According to the Washington Post, th...

Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With Cryptocurrency

The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals...

Report reveals the staggering scale of Business Email Compromise losses

Internet crime is ever present, and with the ongoing pandemic, levels of scams and fraud were exceptionally high in 2020. Opportunistic fraudsters didnt give a second thought to riding the COVID-19 wave and preying upon those who are truly in need of help, or those who truly want to help. The...

Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But over the years, botnet designers have...

Crypto-Miner Campaign Targets Unpatched QNAP NAS Devices

Owners of popular QNAP Systems network attached storage NAS devices are being warned that a malicious cryptocurrency campaign is actively exploiting two critical firmware bugs in systems that have not yet been patched. QNAP fixed the flaws in October 2020; however, researchers at Qihoo 360’s...

John McAfee Charged with Fraud in Cryptocurrency Scam

By Habiba Rashid John McAfee has been charged with fraud and money-laundering related to 2 cryptocurrency schemes, the US Justice Department said on Friday. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: John McAfee Charged with Fraud in Cryptocurrency Scam...

PT-2021-7092

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions prior to 7.4.17 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions 7.13.0 through 7.13.6 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions 7.14.0 through 7.14.2 Atlassian Confluence...

Microsoft brings advanced hardware security to Server and Edge with Secured-core

A cursory look at recent headlines reveals two clear trends. First, organizations around the world are embracing digital transformation using technologies across cloud and edge computing to better serve their customers and thrive in fast-paced environments. Second, attackers are constantly...

Cryptocurrency exchange in liquidation due to hack, hacked again

By Waqas Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in 2019 and put into liquidation after suffering a loss of USD 30 million in crypto-assets. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cryptocurrency exchange in liquidation due to hack, hacked again...

5G Promises to Increase Adoption of Cryptocurrency Investing

By Owais Sultan Blockchain has been efficient in supporting cryptocurrency alone, but its combination with 5G will greatly enhance cryptocurrency mining. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5G Promises to Increase Adoption of Cryptocurrency Investing...

Nvidia's Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip May Not Discourage Attacks

Nvidia, the chip company known for its gaming-friendly graphical processing units GPUs, said that its hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060 chipset, launching Thursday, has an added bonus of thwarting crypto-mining. Experts applaud the effort, but are skeptical the move will take the bullseye off th...

Backdoor / Malicious code

lita-coin 0.0.3 contains a backdoor mechanism that allows launching of hidden cryptocurrency mining operations inside the project. The code also contained a backdoor mechanism that allowed the attacker to send a cookie file back to a compromised project, and allow the attacker to execute maliciou...

GHSA-Q2HM-GX3F-H63Q Backdoor / Malicious code

lita-coin 0.0.3 contains a backdoor mechanism that allows launching of hidden cryptocurrency mining operations inside the project. The code also contained a backdoor mechanism that allowed the attacker to send a cookie file back to a compromised project, and allow the attacker to execute maliciou...

suricata-rules

It is an offensive tool for cryptocurrency mining. The repository contains rules for detecting DNS queries to public cryptocurrency mining pool domains. The rules are designed to identify queries to various mining pool domains, including pool.minergate.com, pool.minexmr.com, opmoner.com,...

U.S. Charges 3 North Korean Hackers Over $1.3 Billion Cryptocurrency Heist

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday indicted three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrencies from financial institutions and businesses. The three defendants — Jon Chang Hyok, 31; Kim Il, 27; and Park Jin...

U.S. Charges 3 North Korean Hackers Over $1.3 Billion Cryptocurrency Heist

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday indicted three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrencies from financial institutions and businesses. The three defendants — Jon Chang Hyok, 31; Kim Il, 27; and Park Jin...

Windows, Linux Devices Hijacked In Two-Year Cryptojacking Campaign

Cryptocurrency-mining malware, called WatchDog, has been running under the radar for more than two years – in what researchers call one of the largest and longest-lasting Monero cryptojacking attacks to date. Click to Register The attack is still in operation as of this writing – and due to the...

U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity: AppleJeus

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of the Treasury have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory and seven Malware Analysis Reports MARs on the North Korean government’s dissemination of malware that facilitates the theft of cryptocurrency—referred to by the U.S...

DDoS Attacks Wane in Q4 Amid Cryptomining Resurgence

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks dropped significantly at the end of 2020, down 31 percent in the fourth quarter, according to researchers. The reason? Cybercriminals have switched their efforts and their botnets to cryptomining. According to an analysis from Kaspersky published Tuesday...