All posts tagged "cryptocurrency"

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  North Korea’s Lazarus Group Rakes in $3 Billion from Cryptocurrency Hacks

  Threat actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism...

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  North Korean Hackers Pose as Job Recruiters and Seekers in Malware Campaigns

  North Korean threat actors have been linked to two campaigns in which they masquerade as both job recruiters and seekers to distribute...

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  Kinsing Hackers Exploit Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability to Deploy Linux Rootkits

  The Kinsing threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ servers to infect Linux systems with cryptocurrency...

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  Malicious Apps Disguised as Banks and Government Agencies Targeting Indian Android Users

  Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps...

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  27 Malicious PyPI Packages with Thousands of Downloads Found Targeting IT Experts

  An unknown threat actor has been observed publishing typosquat packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository for nearly six months with...

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  U.S. Takes Down IPStorm Botnet, Russian-Moldovan Mastermind Pleads Guilty

  The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the takedown of the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure, as the Russian and Moldovan...

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  New Campaign Targets Middle East Governments with IronWind Malware

  Government entities in the Middle East are the target of new phishing campaigns that are designed to deliver a new initial access...

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  Microsoft Warns of Fake Skills Assessment Portals Targeting IT Job Seekers

  A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering...

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  N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Software Vendor Using Known Flaws

  The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through...

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  34 Cybercriminals Arrested in Spain for Multi-Million Dollar Online Scams

  Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting...

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  Qubitstrike Targets Jupyter Notebooks with Crypto Mining and Rootkit Campaign

  A threat actor, presumably from Tunisia, has been linked to a new campaign targeting exposed Jupyter Notebooks in a two-fold attempt to...

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  Cybercriminals Weaponizing Legitimate Advanced Installer Tool in Crypto-Mining Attacks

  A legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages called Advanced Installer is being abused by threat actors to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware...

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  North Korean Affiliates Suspected in $40M Cryptocurrency Heist, FBI Warns

  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday warned that threat actors affiliated with North Korea may attempt to cash out...

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  Hackers Target Apache Tomcat Servers for Mirai Botnet and Crypto Mining

  Misconfigured and poorly secured Apache Tomcat servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to deliver the Mirai botnet...

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  Rust-based Realst Infostealer Targeting Apple macOS Users’ Cryptocurrency Wallets

  A new malware family called Realst has become the latest to target Apple macOS systems, with a third of the samples already...

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  Python-Based PyLoose Fileless Attack Targets Cloud Workloads for Cryptocurrency Mining

  A new fileless attack dubbed PyLoose has been observed striking cloud workloads with the goal of delivering a cryptocurrency miner, new findings...

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  Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange Falls Victim to JokerSpy macOS Backdoor Attack

  An unknown cryptocurrency exchange located in Japan was the target of a new attack earlier this month to deploy an Apple macOS...

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  Ransomware Hackers and Scammers Utilizing Cloud Mining to Launder Cryptocurrency

  Ransomware actors and cryptocurrency scammers have joined nation-state actors in abusing cloud mining services to launder digital assets, new findings reveal. “Cryptocurrency...

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  Beware: New DoubleFinger Loader Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets with Stealer

  A novel multi-stage loader called DoubleFinger has been observed delivering a cryptocurrency stealer dubbed GreetingGhoul in what’s an advanced attack targeting users...

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  New Malware Campaign Leveraging Satacom Downloader to Steal Cryptocurrency

  A recent malware campaign has been found to leverage Satacom downloader as a conduit to deploy stealthy malware capable of siphoning cryptocurrency...

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  8220 Gang Exploiting Oracle WebLogic Flaw to Hijack Servers and Mine Cryptocurrency

  The notorious cryptojacking group tracked as 8220 Gang has been spotted weaponizing a six-year-old security flaw in Oracle WebLogic servers to ensnare...