Litecoin Security: How to Spot, Avoid, and Recover from Crypto Scams

It seems not a day goes by without news of another crypto scam targeting unsuspecting holders. Those owning…...

How to Keep Your Litecoin Safe: A Practical Guide

Litecoin LTC, often called the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold,” has long been popular for its speed, lower transaction…...

MAL-2024-8782 Malicious code in litecoin-address-validator (npm)

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Malicious code in litecoin-address-validator (npm)

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Malicious code in Litecoin (NuGet)

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MAL-2024-4532 Malicious code in Litecoin (NuGet)

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German Authorities Dismantle Dark Web Hub 'Kingdom Market' in Global Operation

German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users." The exercise, which involved collaboration from authorities from the U.S., Switzerland, Moldova, and Ukraine,...

Atomic Wallet Hit by $35M Theft in Recent Crypto Breach

By Habiba Rashid The stolen tokens include popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin BTC, ether ETH, tether USDT, dogecoin DOGE, Litecoin LTC, BNB coin BNB, and polygon MATIC. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Atomic Wallet Hit by $35M Theft in Recent Crypto Breach...

Trojanized TOR Browser Installers Spreading Crypto-Stealing Clipper Malware

Trojanized installers for the TOR anonymity browser are being used to target users in Russia and Eastern Europe with clipper malware designed to siphon cryptocurrencies since September 2022. "Clipboard injectors ... can be silent for years, show no network activity or any other signs of presence...

Russia Cracks Down on 4 Dark Web Marketplaces for Stolen Credit Cards

A special law enforcement operation undertaken by Russia has led to the seizure and shutdown of four online bazaars that specialized in the theft and sales of stolen credit cards, as the government continues to take active measures against harboring cybercriminals on its territory. To that end, t...

Oski Data-Stealing Malware Emerges to Target North America, China

An emergent and effective data-harvesting tool dubbed Oski is proliferating in North America and China, stealing online account credentials, credit-card numbers, cryptowallet accounts and more. Oski, likely a Finnish or Nordic variant of the word Oska, meaning “Viking warrior or god” in Samoan,...

Cryptocurrency Firm Loses $145 Million After CEO Dies With Only Password

QuadrigaCX, the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, has claimed to have lost CAD 190 million nearly USD 145 million worth of cryptocurrency after the exchange lost access to its cold offline storage wallets. Reason? Unfortunately, the only person with access to the company's offline wallet, found...

explorer.litecoin.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-607946 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| explorer.litecoin.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

A week in security (February 5 – February 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we featured a new Flash Player zero-day that has been found in recent targeted attacks. And we talked about a new trick to cripple browsers that came out of the hat of tech support scammers. We also covered several methods of stealing cryptocurrencies, including on...

Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet

Critics of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin have long argued that the core utility of these payment systems lies in facilitating illicit commerce, such as buying drugs or stolen credit cards and identities. But recent spikes in the price of Bitcoin -- and the fees associated with movin...

Secure Anti Forensic Anonymous Operating System: kodachi

Secure Anti Forensic Anonymous Operating System Linux Kodachi operating system is based on Debian 8.6 it will provide you with a secure, anti forensic, and anonymous operating system considering all features that a person who is concerned about privacy would need to have in order to be secure...

Bruteforce BitCoin Wallet

The purpose of this program is to try to find the password of an encrypted Peercoin or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc… wallet file i.e. wallet.dat. It can be used in two ways: try all the possible passwords given a charset try all the passwords in a file There is a command line option to specify the numb...

Facebook Carries Out Lecpetex Botnet Takedown

Facebook has moved slowly and deliberately into the realm of botnet takedowns by disrupting a relatively small operation in Greece that was using the social platform to spread spam and malware. Two arrests were made in connection with the Lecpetex botnet in Greece on July 3. The alleged botmaster...

Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...

Android Malware found on Google Play Store mines Cryptocurrencies

Cyber criminals are more business-minded than you might expect. As the business has moved to greater use of mobile and non-Windows computers, so cyber criminals have adapted techniques monetize their efforts. Security researchers at Lookout Mobile Security discovered that various apps uploaded to...