The Cybersecurity Side of AI Crypto Bots: What Users Need to Know

Many crypto investors remain sceptical about using AI in their trading. They are aware that the technology exists,…...

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...

Analyzing Bitcoin Price Trends and Crypto Scalping Methods

By Uzair Amir Are you interested in cryptocurrency trading but unsure where to start? Have you heard about crypto scalping but… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Analyzing Bitcoin Price Trends and Crypto Scalping Methods...

AllaKore RAT’s Grip Tightens on Mexican Financial Institutions

Summary: A threat actor has been targeting Mexican banks and cryptocurrency trading since at least 2021. Using custom installers, the actor distributes a modified version of the AllaKore RAT, an open-source remote access tool. The campaign cleverly mimics the Mexican Social Security Institute IMS...

North Korean Lazarus APT group targets blockchain tech companies

A new advisory issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the US Treasury Department Treasury, highlights the cyberthreats associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced...

Cream Finance DeFi Platform Rooked For $29M

Cream Finance is the latest decentralized finance DeFi platform for cryptocurrency trading to take a major financial hit at the hands of hackers, losing nearly $19 million in an attack this week on its “flash loan” feature. The attacker was able to steal nearly $29 million before being discovered...

Malicious Ads Target Cryptocurrency Users With Cinobi Banking Trojan

A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with cryptocurrency accounts. The application masquerades as an animated porn game, ...

Social Chain Digital Error Vulnerability

Social Chain SCA is a system for cryptocurrency trading. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'transferMulti' function in SCA. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to increase digital assets...

KoreaShow Number Error Vulnerability

KoreaShow is a system for cryptocurrency trading. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'transferMulti' function in the smart contract implementation of KoreaShow. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to increase digital assets with the help of the 'value' parameter...

OpenTrade SQL Injection Vulnerability

OpenTrade is an open source cryptocurrency trading platform. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in versions of OpenTrade prior to 2019-11-23. The vulnerability stems from a lack of validation of externally entered SQL statements in database-based applications. An attacker can exploit the...

IT threat evolution Q3 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Lazarus targets cryptocurrency exchange Lazarus is a well-established threat actor that has conducted cyber-espionage and cybersabotage campaigns since at least 2009. In recent years, the group has launched campaigns against financial organizations around th...