Cryptocurrency Hacks Still Growing — What Does That Mean for the Industry?

Though once synonymous with underground networks and black hat hackers, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream over the past two years. In 2017, we saw the skyrocket of bitcoin to an all-time high of close to $20,000 followed by a significant decline the following year. But beyon...

Cryptocurrency Hacks Still Growing — What Does That Mean for the Industry?

Though once synonymous with underground networks and black hat hackers, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream over the past two years. In 2017, we saw the skyrocket of bitcoin to an all-time high of close to $20,000 followed by a significant decline the following year. But beyon...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb , the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's...

Cryptocurrency businesses still being targeted by Lazarus

It's hardly news to anyone who follows cyberthreat intelligence that the Lazarus APT group targets financial entities, especially cryptocurrency exchanges. Financial gain remains one of the main goals for Lazarus, with its tactics, techniques, and procedures constantly evolving to avoid detection...

Mac "CookieMiner" Malware Aims to Gobble Crypto Funds

A newly-discovered malware is targeting Mac users’ web cookies and credentials in hopes of withdrawing funds on their cryptocurrency exchange accounts. The malware, discovered this month and aptly named “CookieMiner,” collects cryptocurrency-related cookies – in addition to compromised credential...

Razy Malware Attacks Browser Extensions to Steal Cryptocurrency

UPDATE A Windows malware dubbed “Razy” has been uncovered that sports a toolbox of cryptocurrency theft and fraud tools. Razy works by weaponizing browser extensions in order to perpetrate a range of online scams on unwitting victims. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, the trojan targets...

Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019 Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019 Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019 Introduction – key events in 2018 The past year has been extremely eventful in terms of the digital threats faced by financial institutions:...

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...

Obamacare Sign-Up Channel Breach Affects 75K Consumers

A hack of the government’s Affordable Care Act-mandated healthcare exchanges has exposed the files of 75,000 individuals. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS, its staff detected “anomalous activity” in the Direct Enrollment pathway on Oct. 13 – with a breach declared...

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 and org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15

The Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.51 does not validate a point is withing the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman ECDH key exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack."...

Monero: Locked_Transfer functional burning

Summary: Using the lockedtransfer command in the monero-wallet-cli users can send outputs with high lock times like 1,000,000 blocks. A vendor will accept these transactions with no warnings and credit a user balance. The user can now withdrawal or sell this balance and the vendor is left with...

TradingView Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

TradingView Charting Library is an open source and free K chart analysis tool, with a comprehensive API. support for ordinary json data UDF, there is also support for websocket JSAPI, most of the digital currency exchanges use this component library as a K line analysis tool. TradingView has a...

Lazarus Group’s AppleJeus MacOS malware targeting cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Lazarus Group is believed to be backed by the North Korean government and now it is using AppleJeus MacOS Malware. Security researchers from the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab have discovered the first-ever Lazarus deployed malware for MacOS. It is reported that Lazar...

Google Chrome < 63.0.3239.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Binary data 700351.pasl...

Watch: An Account Takeover Attack Using Credential Stuffing, and How to Protect Against It [Video]

As cryptocurrencies continue to grow in diversity, so too do the threats they face, specifically those targeting the cryptocurrency exchange. Now, more than ever, cryptocurrency exchanges are facing security threats in the form of volumetric and application layer DDoS and account takeover ATO...

Safe as houses: 5 security measures adopted by cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Cryptocurrencies rely on the blockchain, a decentralized ledger that records all transactions ever made within it. The blockchain network consists of multiple nodes that maintain it. To gain control over the network and tamper with transaction data a hacker should compromise most of the...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

New evilReflex Bug Identified in Multiple ERC20 Smart Contracts (CVE-2018-12702, CVE-2018-12703)

Update: 2018-06-24 With swift, coordinated response from Huobi.pro, we appreciate the announcement 11 on suspending the deposits and withdrawals of affected tokens! Our vulnerability-scanning system at PeckShield has so far discovered several dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities batchOverflow...

Full Disclosure of Highly-Manipulatable, tradeTrap-Affected ERC20 Tokens in Multiple Top Exchanges(CVE-2018-11446)

Update: 2018-06-12 The BMB BMB contract 0x0e935e976a47342a4aee5e32ecf2e7b59195e82f is NOT affected by tradeTrap. We sincerely apology for mistakenly listing it as a vulnerable ERC20 token. Quoted from our last blog 1, “publicly tradable ERC-20 tokens have considerable high market value. Various...

Monero: A bug in the Monero wallet balance can enable theft from exchanges

Summary: A Monero bug already fixed in master allows theft from exchanges. This has been exploited again a Monero-derived coin, so the exploit may be underway currently. Description: fluffypony: Also please mention you spoke to me and I recommended you put it on HackerOne PR 3985 fixed a wallet...