Threat Roundup for April 19 to April 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 19 and April 26. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who's generating your cryptocurrency keys...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Mt. Gox Bitcoin Heist: Takeaways from a $3.3B Crypto Exchange Breach It was all fun and games, until someone lost 850,000 BTC from a Tokyo-based exchange, MTGOX, in 2014. Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered for the largest crypto breach in history, is an acronym for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange MTGOX. The absurd rise and fall of MTGOX is critical to understanding the...

Carbon Black Report Finds Tax Fraud & “Identity Theft On Demand” Continuing to Take Shape on the Dark Web

While online sales of identity and banking information have both been easily accessible to malicious actors for a decade or more, there has been a recent maturation in the dark web economy focused on tax identity theft. Carbon Black’s recent research into various marketplaces on the dark web foun...

Tradebox CryptoCurrency - symbol SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: Tradebox - CryptoCurrency Buy Sell and Trading Exploit Author: Abdullah Çelebi Vendor Homepage: https://www.bdtask.com Software Link: tradebox.bdtask.com/demo-v5.3/ Version: 5.4 Category: Webapps Tested on: WAMPP @Win Software...

Tradebox CryptoCurrency - 'symbol' SQL Injection

Title: Tradebox - CryptoCurrency Buy Sell and Trading Date: 04.04.2019 Exploit Author: Abdullah Çelebi Vendor Homepage: https://www.bdtask.com Software Link: tradebox.bdtask.com/demo-v5.3/ Version: 5.4 Category: Webapps Tested on: WAMPP @Win Software description: Tradebox – CryptoCurrency Buy Sel...

Tradebox CryptoCurrency - symbol SQL Injection

Tradebox CryptoCurrency - symbol SQL Injection Title: Tradebox - CryptoCurrency Buy Sell and Trading Date: 04.04.2019 Exploit Author: Abdullah Çelebi Vendor Homepage: https://www.bdtask.com Software Link: tradebox.bdtask.com/demo-v5.3/ Version: 5.4 Category: Webapps Tested on: WAMPP @Win Software...

Tradebox CryptoCurrency 5.4 SQL Injection

Title: Tradebox - CryptoCurrency Buy Sell and Trading Date: 04.04.2019 Exploit Author: Abdullah Çelebi Vendor Homepage: https://www.bdtask.com Software Link: tradebox.bdtask.com/demo-v5.3/ Version: 5.4 Category: Webapps Tested on: WAMPP @Win Software description: Tradebox – CryptoCurrency Buy Sel...

Hard Times for Cryptojacking

By David Balaban What is Cryptojacking? It is an attack in which hackers secretly utilize the computing power of your device to mine cryptocurrency - The cybercrime climate is flexible enough to quickly adapt to new circumstances and trends. The fact that cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed in the...

In-Depth Analysis of JS Sniffers Uncovers New Families of Credit Card-Skimming Code

In a world that's growing increasingly digital, Magecart attacks have emerged as a key cybersecurity threat to e-commerce sites. Magecart, which is in the news a lot lately, is an umbrella term given to 12 different cyber criminal groups that are specialized in secretly implanting a special piece...

Inside job: Bithumb crypto exchange hacked again; loses $20 million

By Waqas This is the third time that Bithumb has been hacked to steal millions in cryptocurrency. Crypto industry is being hammered by cybercriminals with full frequency lately. There are reports of a new attack against South Korean bitcoin exchange called Bithumb due to which the exchange got...

Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive, a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's h...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb , the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's...

New Gustuff Android malware targets cryptocurrency & messaging apps

By Waqas Gustuff Android malware from Russia with love. Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, has discovered a new breed of Trojan horse malware called Gustuff, which specifically targets Android phones to steal banking credentials and digital assets of users. The malware targets customers of...

Lazarus Group Widens Tactics in Cryptocurrency Attacks

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus Group has been spotted targeting the cryptocurrency business again, adding Apple users to the mix by using PowerShell scripts to control macOS malware, and honing its Windows strategy. The campaign has been active since at least November 2018, according to an analys...

Cryptocurrency businesses still being targeted by Lazarus

It's hardly news to anyone who follows cyberthreat intelligence that the Lazarus APT group targets financial entities, especially cryptocurrency exchanges. Financial gain remains one of the main goals for Lazarus, with its tactics, techniques, and procedures constantly evolving to avoid detection...

This Week in Security News: Radio Frequency Technology and Telecom Crimes

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how radio frequency technology is putting industrial organizations at risk. Also, understand the threat landscape of telecommunication...

CVE-2018-19158

ColossusCoinXT through 1.0.5 a chain-based proof-of-stake cryptocurrency allows a remote denial of service, exploitable by an attacker who acquires even a small amount of stake/coins in the system. The attacker sends invalid headers/blocks, which are stored on the victim's disk...