GitVenom Malware Steals $456K in Bitcoin Using Fake GitHub Projects to Hijack Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that's targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub. The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky. "The infected projects...

PT-2018-17496

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Electrum versions 2.9.4 and earlier Electrum versions 3.0.5 and earlier Description The issue allows attackers to steal Bitcoin by executing arbitrary Python code, potentially through social-engineering attacks where a user pastes code they do...