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The Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Binance is offering a whopping $250,000 in Binance Coin (BNB) to anyone who can provide conclusive evidence against hackers and lead to prosecution and jail for attempting to hack the exchange on March 7th, 2018. Binance hit by phishing attack Binance exchange which allows people to trade cryptocurrencies for other assets […]
In a blog post published on Wednesday, Microsoft said their Windows Defender antivirus software helped in the prevention of a massive cryptocurrency malware attack from spreading across the globe. Just before the noon of March 6, it did so by blocking around 80,000 instances of “several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process infection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and […]
Being part of the cryptocurrency industry is like constantly riding on a rollercoaster where one minute you feel at the top and suddenly hit the bottom with a big boom. Such is the volatile nature of the cryptocurrency industry. Last week it was too calm and quiet and Bitcoin seemed to be gaining the top […]
A new cryptocurrency-stealing malware dubbed as ComboJack has been discovered by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and Proofpoint researchers. It has been targeting cryptocurrencies and digital wallets belonging to American and Japanese users while the malware is being distributed via email spam campaign. Fake Passport Email The malicious emails contain the subject line “Re: passport…” […]
In July of last year, an Israeli cryptocurrency venture called Coindash was preparing for the Initial Currency Offer (ICO), but as soon as the sale began, a hacker intercepted the company’s website and stole about 43,000 worth of Ethereum. At the time, the stolen cryptocurrency equivalent to the US $ 7.4 million, but today it costs approximately […]
Bitcoin is a kind of cryptocurrency which every user, hacker, and criminal wants to own. For this, some rightly invest funds while malicious elements go for cyrptojacking and criminals try to physically steal Bitcoin from others. 600 Bitcoin mining computers and equipment stolen in Iceland In the latest incident, 600 Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining computers worth more […]
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series of new DDoS attacks and this time they have introduced a new technique for launching DDoS attacks, which is much more devastating than before. According to the findings of IT security firm Akamai’s findings, attackers are now launching record-breaking DDoS attacks using a new method […]
rTorrent Client Exploited to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency Thanks to XML-RPC Misconfiguration Vulnerability. According to the findings of F5 Networks Inc.’s threat researchers, cybercriminals have managed to make $3,900 in a new malicious cryptomining campaign. The new scheme involves installation of currency-mining software on computers that run on Unix-like OS through exploiting the famous BitTorrent client […]
Cryptojacking JavaScript can be launched in Word documents – New Word features that appeared in its latest version made it possible – MS Word now allows adding video into the document by inserting an iFrame code. The file size does not increase as the video is played through a headless web browser opened in a popup window. […]
Another day, another Monero cryptocurrency miner – This time, the target was LA times’ The Homicide Report website. Troy Mursch, a Las Vegas-based security researcher (“Bad Packets” on Twitter) identified that hackers compromised LA Times website to mine Monero cryptocurrency. The incident took place on February 21st on The Homicide Report, a website run by the LA Times […]
Another day, another ransomware scam – This time, it is the SamSam ransomware that has infected computers system at Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). According to the latest news from Colorado’s governor office, some state-owned computers at the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) have been held for ransom. Reportedly, over 2,000 computers were infected with SamSam ransomware […]
Dr. Mine is a script programmed in NodeJS designed specially to help the detection of the cryptocurrency mining in the different webs that we are going to visit. According to cyber security experts, the most accurate way to detect the cryptocurrency mining in browsers is using the browser, but in this case, the tool will automate everything […]
Microsoft word documents abused by Cryptocurrency Mining script embedded phishing Videos and victims tricked into watching an “innocent” video that leads to performing a crypto-Jacking Attack on victims PC. Nowadays Hackers always finding a new malicious way to mining Cryptocurrency by abusing various legitimate platform. Usually, Browser-based cryptocurrency mining is performed by injecting crypto-jacking script and once […]
While Elon Musk might be busy making plans to take humans to Mars and impress people with SpaceX’s upcoming internet satellite launch, notorious hackers don’t know how to take a break. As detected by cloud security firm RedLock, the hackers were able to take control of Tesla’s poorly secured public cloud account to mine cryptocurrency. […]
It is 2018 and the easiest way to make quick money at someones else’s expense is mining cryptocurrency. This time, however, researchers have found two new victims of cryptojacking including Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) and Wikipedia, an online content based encyclopedia. These findings came from two separate IT security firms. First, according to researchers at California based Cloud Threat Defense […]
According to Check Point’s latest Global Threat Impact index, nearly 23 percent of organizations across the world is affected by the Coinhive – the Crypto-mining malware that drains CPU power to mining malware. The cybersecurity experts found three different variants of crypto-mining, malware and Coinhive ranks on top. Other miners that made their way to the list […]
Cryptocurrency Mining Malware performing a crypto mining attack by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the popular database system. According to their global Sensor reports the new attacks targetting the vulnerabilities in the popular open source database Apache CouchDB system. Past few year Crypto currency mining is a very easy method for cybercriminals to Generating the huge revenue by hijacking […]
Another day, another Monero ming scam – This one, researchers claim is the biggest and most malicious cryptomining campaign to hit Jenkins CI servers. Profitable cryptocurrency mining is currently the fad among hackers and cybercriminals. The sad part is that the scam is performed at the expense of innocent users’ computer processors as the mining […]
Security researchers from Checkpoint discovered a largest Monero mining activity that uses XMRig miner on various versions of Windows machines. The hacker group earned more than $3 million worth Monero coins, and now to speed up their mining process they are targeting powerful Jenkins CI server. Past few year Crypto currency mining is a very easy method […]
Security researcher Scott Helme discovered a third party accessibility plugin called ‘Browsealoud’. In the past 24 hours, it was found that several browsers were compromised. The plugin hides on the website, as it relies on the JavaScript to work. Now, this has caused nearly 4000 websites to facilitate itself as crypto mining malware. The malware […]
Another day another Bitcoin scam in which unsuspected users have been targeted by cybercriminals and the numbers of victims keeps growing with every passing day. In the latest scam, the government of Austria is seeking the help of Interpol to track down scammers who stole more than $155 million worth of Bitcoin from hundreds or even thousands […]