Hackers Steal Over $600 Million Worth of Cryptocurrencies from Poly Network

Hackers have siphoned $611 million worth of cryptocurrencies from a blockchain-based financial network in what's believed to be one of the largest heists targeting the digital asset industry, putting it ahead of breaches targeting exchanges Coincheck and Mt. Gox in recent years. Poly Network, a...

Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

We found a new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan that delivered a malicious application. The malicious application abused sideloading vulnerabilities to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

Old crypto malware makes come back, hits Windows, Linux devices

By Deeba Ahmed LemonDuck was first discovered in China in 2019 as a cryptocurrency botnet that used affected systems for Monero mining. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Old crypto malware makes come back, hits Windows, Linux devices...

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk

Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" OConnor, in a photo from a paid press release on Sept. 02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summers mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" OConnor appeared to...

Another Hacker Arrested for 2020 Twitter Hack and Massive Bitcoin Scam

A U.K. citizen has been arrested in the Spanish town of Estepona over his alleged involvement in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, resulting in the compromise of 130 high-profile accounts. Joseph O'Connor, 22, has been charged with intentionally accessing a computer without authorization and obtaini...

Threat Source newsletter (July 15, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. The value of cryptocurrency is all over the place. Elon Musk's tweets can send Dogecoin rising and falling. And Monero, the most popular currency for cryptominers, has gone all over the place this year. So does that have... This is...

Cryptominer Farm Rigged with 3,800 PS4s Busted in Ukraine

Authorities in Ukraine have made another cybersecurity bust — this time shutting down what they said is one of the largest underground cryptomining operations ever found. The ring was apparently run by stringing together 3,800 Sony PlayStation 4 PS4 gaming consoles. Cryptominers serve as auditors...

Following the Money: Comparing cryptocurrency value to illicit mining activity

By Nick Biasini In the age of meme stocks, Robinhood and Elon Musk's tweets influencing the global economy, cryptocurrency mining has not seemed as fringe as it once did. Mining has been around as long as these crytocurrencies have, but only really started to gather the attention of criminals in...

170 fraudulent Android apps scamming cryptocurrency enthusiasts

By Deeba Ahmed So far, these fake Android app developers have managed to steal money from 93,000 users and raked in around $350,000. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 170 fraudulent Android apps scamming cryptocurrency enthusiasts...

Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA

Binance, the worlds largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange network, has had a rough few days. First, Japans financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency FSA, issued its second warning to Binance on Friday, 25 June, for operating in the country without permission The first warning...

Hackers Crack Pirated Games with Cryptojacking Malware

A new Monero cryptojacking malware distributed via “cracked” versions of popular online games is wiping out antivirus programs AVs and surreptitiously mining cryptocurrency in more than a dozen countries, researchers have found. Dubbed “Crackonosh,” the malware — which has been active since June...

Clop Gang Partners Laundered $500 Million in Ransomware Payments

The cybercrime ring that was apprehended last week in connection with Clop aka Cl0p ransomware attacks against dozens of companies in the last few months helped launder money totaling $500 million for several malicious actors through a plethora of illegal activities. "The group — also known as...

Musk-Themed ‘$SpaceX’ Cryptoscam Invades YouTube Ads

YouTube fans have been swindled out of almost $1 million and counting thanks to an extremely convincing fake SpaceX crypto-coin campaign that uses a popular decentralized finance protocol called Uniswap. The scam is rearing its Elon-Musk-themed head in ads on YouTube that show up before and after...

John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison After Extradition Order

The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old...

Don Spies and Kim Grauer on tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions

In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Don Spies and Kim Grauer of Chainalysis. They discuss the relationship between ransomware and cryptocurrency and how Chainalysis leverages unique characteristics of the latter to combat the former. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod a...

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. In the past year, rapidly increasing cryptocurrency rates, the introduction of new currencies, and the officia...

Malware Attack on South Korean Entities Was Work of Andariel Group

A malware campaign targeting South Korean entities that came to light earlier this year has been attributed to a North Korean nation-state hacking group called Andariel, once again indicating that Lazarus attackers are following the trends and their arsenal is in constant development. "The way...

pyWhat - Identify Anything. Easily Lets You Identify Emails, IP Addresses, And More...

The easiest way to identify anything pip3 install pywhat && pywhat --help What is this? Imagine this: You come across some mysterious text 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 and you wonder what it is. What do you do? Well, with what all you have to do is ask what "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"...