Crypto Threats Surge by 500%, and It's All About the Money

Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge...

‘An0m’ Encrypted-Chat Sting Leads to Arrest of 800

Law enforcement agencies have been selling encrypted phones to organized crime gangs for years, monitoring their conversations in what’s being called the biggest law enforcement sting ever. Since 2018, agencies have been overseeing the distribution of hardened, encrypted devices that have enabled...

Ransomware Is Getting Ugly

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of this ransomware, and the criminals have just posted personnel records -- "including the results of psychological assessments and polygraph tests;...

Pandemic, A Driving Force in 2021 Financial Crime

Financial cybercrime in 2021 is set to evolve, researchers say, with extortion practices becoming more widespread, ransomware gangs consolidating and advanced exploits being used more effectively to target victims. That’s according to key predictions from Kaspersky. Researchers said the drastic...

Ghimob Android Banking Trojan Targets 153 Mobile Apps

A new banking trojan has been discovered targeting Android users, with the capabilities to spy on 153 mobile apps from various banks, cryptocurrencies and exchanges. Researchers describe the banking trojan, called Ghimob, as a “full-fledged spy in your pocket” that can be accessed remotely by its...

CVE-2018-17145

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15...

Design/Logic Flaw

Bitcoin Core 0.16.x before 0.16.2 and Bitcoin Knots 0.16.x before 0.16.2 allow remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes, aka INVDoS. NOTE: this can also affect other cryptocurrencies, e.g., if they were forked from Bitcoin Core after 2017-11-15...

CVE-2018-17145

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Hackers use Github bot to steal $1,200 in ETH within 100 seconds

By Sudais Asif Hackers are remotely stealing cryptocurrencies using bots on Github. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers use Github bot to steal $1,200 in ETH within 100 seconds...

The Cost of Cybercrime

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. In this paper,we report what has changed in the seven years since. The period has seen major platform evolution, with the mobile phone...

Threats target financial institutions, fintech, and cryptocurrencies

With news of a malware attack on accounting firm Wolters Kluwer causing a "quiet panic" in the accounting world this week, our assertion that financial institutions—from banks to brokers—are part of the vital infrastructure of society has been solidified. According to its website, Wolters Kluwer...

There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology

Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30...

Malicious Package

event-stream is a malicious package. The new maintainer of the package released versions of the package that contains malicious code that causes it to be declare an external wallet as a co-payee for cryptocurrencies...

Elite North Koreans aren’t opposed to exploiting internet for financial gain

By David Balaban According to a report from Recorded Future, it seems the ruling elite in North Korea are now using the Internet more and more to take advantage of money-making opportunities and avoid various economic sanctions. Not only is the Kim regime utilizing interbank transfer systems,...

CVE-2018-3972

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

Deserialization of untrusted data

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

CVE-2018-3972

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

AZORult Stealer 2 Botnet SQL Injection

Title: AZORult Stealer v2 Botnet - SQL injection Credit: Bilal KARDADOU URL: https://www.rekings.com/shop/azorult-stealer/ Product: 'AZORult Stealer v2 Botnet' Type: Paid Google Dork: N/A Description: Stealer of stored passwords, cookies, autocomplete from browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox...

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County...