John McAfee backed Bitfi wallet pwned again

By Uzair Amir The presumably unhackable Bitfi wallet backed by John McAfee has released a statement announcing that the unhackable tag will be removed from their marketing materials. The step comes after the device’s security was compromised by a Twitter user under the name @spudowiar. The...

Hacking the Bitfi Part 5: MITM transactions

So what’s latest with the Bitfi unhackable/hackable crpto currency wallet? Bitfi release software version 89 over the weekend. Devices updated, so we had a look to see what had changed. First, they’ve tried to stop the passphrase and seed from being cached in memory and therefore trivially...

Hacking the Bitfi. Part 2: John McAfee’s video

The unhackable Bitfi story isn't going away any time soon. Following John McAfee's tweet yesterday that he would put out a "definitive video countering all of the nonsense claims instigated and co-coordinated by BirFi's sic established, monolithic competitors in the hardware wallet space" here's ...

Hacking the Bitfi. Part 1

A large number of security researchers have taken exception to the ‘unhackable’ claims made by Bitfi and John McAfee about the security of their hardware cryptocurrency wallet. The $100K bounty offered appears to be something of sham, given it covers a very, very specific scenario. Bitfi states...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

In cryptoland, trust can be costly

While the legal status of cryptocurrencies and laws to regulate them continue to be hammered out, scammers are busy exploiting the digital gold rush. Besides hacking cryptocurrency exchanges, exploiting smart-contract vulnerabilities, and deploying malicious miners, cybercriminals are also...

Monero: Attcker can trick monero wallet into reporting it recived twice as much with alternative tx_keypubs

Summary: multiple identical txpubkeys were patched, but you can still use alternative txpubkeys to get the same result. Description: An attacker can craft an XMR transaction which causes the receiving wallet to report that it received twice as much XMR as the attacker actually sent. The balance o...

Monero: A bug in the Monero wallet balance can enable theft from exchanges

Summary: A Monero bug already fixed in master allows theft from exchanges. This has been exploited again a Monero-derived coin, so the exploit may be underway currently. Description: fluffypony: Also please mention you spoke to me and I recommended you put it on HackerOne PR 3985 fixed a wallet...

Monero: Misreporting of received amount by show_transfers

Summary: A sender may cause showtransfers to report a higher amount that was actually sent on the recipient's showtransfers output. Description: Due to a flaw in processnewtransaction in wallet2.cpp, if the tx pubkey is present multiple times, it will decode outputs correctly as many times, and a...

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Siaberry's Command Injection Vulnerability Today, I’d like to share several interesting vulnerabilities I discovered in Siaberry, a hardware device for earning cryptocurrency. Siaberry runs on Sia, a decentralized marketplace for buying a...

Hackers Stole Over $20 Million in Ethereum from Insecurely Configured Clients

Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet. Qihoo 360 Netlab in March tweeted about a group of cybercriminals who were scanning the Internet for...

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection Siaberry's Command Injection Vulnerability Today, I’d like to share several interesting vulnerabilities I discovered in Siaberry, a hardware device for earning cryptocurrency. Siaberry runs on Sia, a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling data storage...

Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen

By Uzair Amir Shopin, the first universal shopper profile offering the most personal This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen...

Monero: Trusted daemon check fails when proxied through torsocks or proxychains

Summary: If torsocks1 or proxychains1 is enforced when using Monero wallet with a remote node without explicit --untrusted-daemon arguments given, the application will assume the daemon is trusted. Description: By default, the wallet checks if the daemon address can be trusted by calling...

Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams

As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to boom in 2018, it has also tempting target for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.” Researchers at Proofpoint this week said they’ve observed a sharp rise in these scams, which target users of Ethereum and Bitcoin...

How to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys (Cold Storage) from Air-Gapped PCs

Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D team at Israel's Ben Gurion University, who previously demonstrated various methods to steal data from an air-gapped computer, has now published new research named "BeatCoin." BeatCoin is not a new hacking technique; instead, it's an experiment wherein the...

How to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys (Cold Storage) from Air-Gapped PCs

Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D team at Israel's Ben Gurion University, who previously demonstrated various methods to steal data from an air-gapped computer, has now published new research named "BeatCoin." BeatCoin is not a new hacking technique; instead, it's an experiment wherein the...

Unikrn: CSRF logs the victim into attacker's account

Description: There is no session validation while logging in which leads to csrf. Steps To Reproduce: 1. Create a CSRF login POC using the following code. 2. Replace the email and password with the valid credentials. 3. Send the script to the victim to make them click. References: 1. You've...

Exodus Wallet (ElectronJS Framework) - Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/powershell' class MetasploitModule 'Exodus Wallet ElectronJS Framework remote Code...

CryptoNote Command Execution Vulnerability

CryptoNote is a cryptocurrency system. A security vulnerability exists in CryptoNote version 0.8.9, which stems from the program not requiring authentication. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute commands and take control of a cryptocurrency wallet via a web page hosting...