Fake Ransomware Infection Hits WordPress Sites

Fake red-on-black warnings have been plastered to hundreds of WordPress sites, warning that they’ve been encrypted. The warnings have at least one ransomware accoutrement that might look convincing at first blush: a countdown clock tick-tick-ticking away, warning site owners that they’ve got seve...

Fake ransomware warnings hit WordPress sites: How to stay safe

A ransomware warning has appeared out of nowhere and started taking over WordPress sites. The warning, with its black background and red writing, says: “SITE ENCRYPTED Countdown FOR RESTORE SEND 0.1 BITCOIN: address redacted create file on site /unlock.txt with transaction key inside” But theres...

Wire Fraud Scam Upgraded with Bitcoin

The FBI has issued a bulletin describing a bitcoin variant of a wire fraud scam: As the agency describes it, the scammer will contact their victim and somehow convince them that they need to send money, either with promises of love, further riches, or by impersonating an actual institution like a...

bitcoin-legal.org Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-2253117

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Police Arrest Suspected Ransomware Hackers Behind 1,800 Attacks Worldwide

12 people have been detained as part of an international law enforcement operation for orchestrating ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and large organizations that hit over 1,800 victims across 71 countries since 2019, marking the latest action against cybercrime groups. The arrests...

Feds Reportedly Hacked REvil Ransomware Group and Forced it Offline

The Russian-led REvil ransomware gang was felled by an active multi-country law enforcement operation that resulted in its infrastructure being hacked and taken offline for a second time earlier this week, in what's the latest action taken by governments to disrupt the lucrative ecosystem. The...

[updated]REvil ransomware disappears after Tor services hijacked

With some pests you hope they never recover from a blow. It’s almost too good to be true, but one can hope. This is one of them. The REvil ransomware group has shut down their operation for the second time this year after losing control over their Tor-based domains. Shutdown number 1 REvils first...

BlackMatter Ransomware

Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Usestrong, unique passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note: this advisory uses t...

CVE-2021-24679

The Bitcoin / AltCoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.6.1 does not escape the 's' GET parameter before outputting back in the All Masking Rules page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue...

CVE-2021-24679

The Bitcoin / AltCoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.6.1 does not escape the 's' GET parameter before outputting back in the All Masking Rules page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue...

btcpay server 跨站脚本漏洞

btcpay server is a free and open source bitcoin payment processor that allows you to accept bitcoins without fees or intermediaries. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in btcpay server. The vulnerability stems from the susceptibility to incorrect input neutralization "cross-site scriptin...

The vulnerability of the PreChecks functionality in the standard Bitcoin Core implementation, related to improper authentication, allows a violator to compromise data integrity and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the PreChecks functionality in the standard Bitcoin Bitcoin Core implementation is related to the incorrect replacement of the child transaction. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to compromise data integrity and also cause service failures...

Financial Cybercrime: Following Cryptocurrency via Public Ledgers

This is Part II of a two-part series on how cybercrooks embrace and use cryptocurrency. To read Part I, please click here. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous, it’s possible to follow the money through public ledgers to see what those transactions actually are and how they flow. This allows ...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in btcpayserver/btcpayserver

✍️ Description Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor this package is vulnerable for xss 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept 💥 Impact This vulnerability is capable of xss...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in btcpayserver/btcpayserver

✍️ Description Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor this package is vulnerable for xss 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept 💥 Impact This vulnerability is capable of stored XSS...

Bitcoin / AltCoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce < 1.6.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the 's' GET parameter before outputting back in the All Masking Rules page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue PoC https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cs-woo-altcoin-all-coins="...

Man Sues Parents of Teens Who Hijacked Nearly $1M in Bitcoin

When Colorado resident Andrew Schober downloaded the Electrum Atom Bitcoin wallet from Reddit, he also picked up a piece of clipboard hijacking malware that eventually redirected his 16.4552 Bitcoin to a wallet controlled by two teenagers living in the U.K. At today’s price, 16.4552 Bitcoin would...

Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says hes confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for using a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware t...

Nigerian Threat Actors Solicit Employees to Deploy Ransomware for Cut of Profits

Researchers have discovered a Nigerian threat actor trying to turn an organization’s employees into insider threats by soliciting them to deploy ransomware for a cut of the ransom profits. Researchers at Abnormal Security identified and blocked a number of emails sent earlier this month to some i...

Crypto-scams you should be steering clear of in 2021

A fair few cryptocurrency scams have been doing the rounds across 2021. Most of them are similar if not identical to tactics used in previous years with an occasional twist. Here’s some of the most visible ones you should be steering clear of. Recovery code theft Many Bitcoin wallets make use of...