Hola VPN’s Chrome extension hacked to target MyEtherWallet users

By Waqas Although the decentralized approach to handling cryptocurrency wallets has been This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hola VPN's Chrome extension hacked to target MyEtherWallet users...

Orbit - Cryptocurrency Wallets Relationship Visualizer

Give it a blockchain based crypto wallet address and it will crawl 3 levels deep in transaction data to plot a graph out of the information. Usage Run orbit.py with python3 as follows python3 orbit.py Enter the wallet address | | | ' | || | | | | Enter a wallet address: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Now orbit...

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...

Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining

An old ransomware sample has been rejiggered with a sneaky new trick – allowing adversaries to either extort money from victims via ransomware, or hijack a computer’s CPU cycles via a stealthy cryptominer. The Rakhni Trojan Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni, first spotted in 2013, is now giving bad acto...

Most LokiBot samples in the wild are "hijacked" versions of the original malware

Hacker himself got hacked. It turns out that most samples of the LokiBot malware being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample, a security researcher has learned. Targeting users since 2015, LokiBot is a password and cryptocoin-wallet stealer that can harvest...

BonusToken Integer Overflow Vulnerability

bonusToken BNS is an Ether-based digital currency. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'mintToken' function in the smart contract implementation of BNS. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to set the balance of any user to an arbitrary value...

Ex-NSO Employee Caught Selling Stolen Phone Hacking Tool For $50 Million

A former employee of one of the world's most powerful hacking companies NSO Group has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and trying to sell it for $50 million on the Darknet secretly. Israeli hacking firm NSO Group is mostly known for selling high-tech...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

Augur: A miner can manipulate the gas reporting bond

Not entirely confident I've understood this system correctly, apologies if it's wrong and feel free to stop reading if you run into an obvious mistake... Summary: add summary of the vulnerability By creating a market with themselves as designated reporter and setting a very high gas price for the...

CVE-2018-13204

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for ETHERCASH ETC, an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow in which "amount sellPrice" can be zero, consequently reducing a seller's assets...

The Pirate Bay is silently mining cryptocurrency without user consent

By Waqas After being offline for over a week, The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay is silently mining cryptocurrency without user consent...

CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites

Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...

Online Trade - Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Online Trade 1 - Information Disclosure Exploit Author: L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/online-trade-online-forex-and-cryptocurrency-investment-system/21987193?srank=14 CVE: CVE-2018-12908 Version: 1 Tested on:...

Online Trade 1 Credential Disclosure

Exploit Title: Online Trade 1 - Information Disclosure Date: 2018-07-03 Exploit Author: L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/online-trade-online-forex-and-cryptocurrency-investment-system/21987193?srank=14 CVE: CVE-2018-12908 Version: 1 Tested on: Win 10...

Online Trade - Information Disclosure

Online Trade - Information Disclosure Exploit Title: Online Trade 1 - Information Disclosure Date: 2018-07-03 Exploit Author: L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/online-trade-online-forex-and-cryptocurrency-investment-system/21987193?srank=14 CVE: CVE-2018-12908 Version: 1 Tested on...

Online Trade - Information Disclosure

Exploit Title: Online Trade 1 - Information Disclosure Date: 2018-07-03 Exploit Author: L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/online-trade-online-forex-and-cryptocurrency-investment-system/21987193?srank=14 CVE: CVE-2018-12908 Version: 1 Tested on: Win 10...

Cryptocurrency users on Discord & Slack hit by MacOS malware

By Waqas Hackers are using a new MacOS malware aimed at cryptocurrency This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cryptocurrency users on Discord & Slack hit by MacOS malware...

MacOS Malware Targets Cryptocurrency Community on Slack, Discord

Hackers using MacOS malware are targeting cryptocurrency investors that use both the Slack and Discord chat platforms. The malware, dubbed OSX.Dummy, uses an unsophisticated infection method, but those who are successfully attacked open their systems up to remote arbitrary code execution. “If the...

This Week in Security News: Rules and Regulation

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, House lawmakers approved legislation for securing technology used to power critical infrastructures from cyberattacks. Read on to learn more...