AMOS and Lumma stealers actively spread to Reddit users

We were alerted to Mac and Windows stealers currently distributed via Reddit posts targeting users engaging in cryptocurrency trading. One of the common lures is a cracked software version of the popular trading platform TradingView. The crooks are posting links to both Windows and Mac installers...

StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

In November 2024, Microsoft Incident Response researchers uncovered a novel remote access trojan RAT we named StilachiRAT that demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. Analysis of the StilachiRAT’s...

Cybersecurity in Crypto: Best Practices to Prevent Theft and Fraud

Cybersecurity tips to protect your cryptocurrency from hackers, scams, and fraud. Learn best practices for securing digital assets…...

New MassJacker Malware Targets Piracy Users, Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions

Users searching for pirated software are the target of a new malware campaign that delivers a previously undocumented clipper malware called MassJacker, according to findings from CyberArk. Clipper malware is a type of cryware as coined by Microsoft that's designed to monitor a victim's clipboard...

Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex , a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigati...

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U....

Navigating Crypto Without Sacrificing Your Privacy

Cryptocurrency offers financial freedom, but it also comes with privacy challenges. Unlike traditional banking, where transactions remain relatively…...

U.S. Secret Service Seizes Russian Garantex Crypto Exchange Website

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies has seized the website associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex "garantex.org", nearly three years after the service was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in April 2022. "The domain for Garantex has been seized by the Unit...

Ransomware threat mailed in letters to business owners

Business owners and CEOs across the United States received customized ransomware threats this month from the most unusual of places—letters in the mail. The letters, which were first reported by multiple cybersecurity researchers, claim to come from a ransomware group called BianLian. But since...

Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool

In recent months, we've seen an increase in the use of Windows Packet Divert drivers to intercept and modify network traffic in Windows systems. This technology is used in various utilities, including ones for bypassing blocks and restrictions of access to resources worldwide. Over the past six...

Over 4,000 ISP IPs Targeted in Brute-Force Attacks to Deploy Info Stealers and Cryptominers

Internet service providers ISPs in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splunk Threat Research Team, which said the activity...

API Armor: How Bybit’s Real-Time Blacklisting Is Thwarting a $1.5B Crypto Heist

APIs present a security risk—that much is a given. Attacks on APIs have caused some of the most significant security incidents of the past decades. But the question now is: How can we flip the script and leverage their power to enhance security? Bybit might just have the answer. Bybit—one of the...

Bybit Hack Traced to Safe{Wallet} Supply Chain Attack Exploited by North Korean Hackers

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI formally linked the record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit hack to North Korean threat actors, as the company's CEO Ben Zhou declared a "war against Lazarus." The agency said the Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea was responsible for the the...

North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency

It looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit: Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins just hours after it occurred. The notification said the digital loot had been stored in a "Multisig Cold Wallet" when,...

GitVenom Malware Steals $456K in Bitcoin Using Fake GitHub Projects to Hijack Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that's targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub. The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky. "The infected projects...

The GitVenom campaign: cryptocurrency theft using GitHub

In our modern world, it's difficult to underestimate the impact that open-source code has on software development. Over the years, the global community has managed to publish a tremendous number of projects with freely accessible code that can be viewed and enhanced by anyone on the planet. Very...

Bybit Confirms Record-Breaking $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist in Sophisticated Cold Wallet Attack

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday revealed that a "sophisticated" attack led to the theft of over $1.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its Ethereum cold offline wallets, making it the largest ever single crypto heist in history. "The incident occurred when our ETH multisig cold...

Malicious code in transaction-utils (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 c1efc9cf33a18e7f3c4294c39aabadf136974e4e2ee56c874ba337ac609c6b77 The only thing the package does is send out all the given data about a cryptocurrency transaction, including the private key, to a hardcoded webhook. Feedback...

Bybit Hack: $1.4B Stolen from World’s 2nd Largest Crypto Exchange

In a major cybersecurity incident, Bybit, the world's 2nd-largest crypto exchange suffered a $1.4 billion ETH hack from…...

North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware

Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families known as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity, linked to North Korea, has been codenamed DeceptiveDevelopment, which overlaps with...