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The malicious Monero mining campaign is spreading fast through ADB.miner to target Android devices. The IT security researchers at a Chinese information security firm Netlab have revealed that the ADB.miner malware also called Android.CoinMine.15 is spreading at an excessively fast pace. Researchers have noted that its activity is at its peak at the moment with […]
Another day, another malware – This time TrickBot’s variant is stealing Bitcoin by hacking cryptocurrency transactions. TrickBot malware, which emerged in late 2016, has taken the cyber world by storm. TrickBot is a type of destructive code offering a combo of redirection and web injection attacks. It does not directly attack banks or blockchains but […]
Another day, another Bitcoin scam – This time it abuses Google Ads service. In December last year, HackRead.com exclusively exposed a scam in which hackers bought advertisement slots on Google Search Engine using Google’s very own Adwords (Google Ads) service. The search results would display Google Chrome browser download advertisement even before the official Chrome download […]
The IT security researchers at McAfee have discovered that the Lazarus Group aka Hidden Cobra is back in action busy targeting global banking giants and unsuspecting Bitcoin users with a new sophisticated phishing campaign. Who is Lazarus Group If you are not familiar with who Lazarus Group are; they are a group of well-trained cybercriminals who according to […]
Newly Identified Drive-by Monero Cryptomining Campaign Targeted Millions of Android Devices in Few Months. Hackers usually rely upon infected or rather trojanized applications and redirect notices to carry out a certain kind of online scam called malvertising and nowadays they are increasingly relying on carrying out cryptomining through these very techniques. In their campaign, Android […]
The sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin encouraged the world to mine more cryptocurrencies but some do it the right way while the cybercriminals do it the wrong way and unsuspecting users have to pay the price. This is exactly what happened in London where hackers took over computer systems and began to mine […]
BitGrail – A Popular cryptocurrency exchange Hacked and hackers stolen 17 million Nano which costs around $170 Million by unauthorized transactions. Italian baed BitGrail exchange was one of the largest trading hubs for the RaiBlocks cryptocurrency, which has since rebranded to “Nano.”. According to Coinmarketcap, Nano currently boasts a market capitalization of $1,287,013,24, the 24th largest of any cryptocurrency. A […]
There were thousands of UK and US government websites mining Monero including UK’s NHS and US’s Court. It has been raining on cryptocurrency in 2018 especially Bitcoin whose value touched the sky and made people millionaires in days. It also encouraged hackers and cybercriminals to take advantage of the situation and make easy money but the price for it […]
Due to the unprecedented popularity and public acceptable garnered by cryptocurrency, launching a cryptocurrency exchange has become the best way to make quick and easy money. However, in their haste to open an exchange at the earliest, companies have not paid enough attention at the provision of secure and safe trading environment, which is why […]
Where on earth you won’t expect cryptojacking scripts exploiting people’s machine for cryptocurrencies? Probably, the websites owned by feds. But it turns out, it isn’t entirely true. Now, before one starts to think that the governments had a change of heart and began to harvest crypto coins, the story involves malicious actors, because, of course. Scott […]
Another day, another incident involving people mining Bitcoin cryptocurrency illegally – This time, it is none other than Russian scientists. The Interfax News Agency, Russia, reported that engineers from the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) have been arrested for using official “computing resources” to mine Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It must be noted that the RFNC-VNIIEF […]
Ledger hardware wallet that is currently operating in the cryptocurrency market is vulnerable to cyber attacks. The vulnerability was identified by unknown security researchers in every single hardware wallet that allows cybercriminals to show fraudulent addresses to Ledger users/customers. When funds are requested to these addresses, the cryptocurrency is transferred to the attacker’s wallet instead of […]
Another day, another cryptocurrency miner targeting users – This time, MacUpdate site has been hacked to drop cryptocurrency miner on Mac devices. MacUpdate, a well-known software download, and aggregator platform, has become a victim of a hack attack and the service is now distributing cryptocurrency miners to Mac users, revealed SentinelOne’s security researcher Arnaud Abbati. […]
Different kinds of malware are targetting cryptocurrency owners and trying to steal their valuable digital coins by employing different techniques. This new and lucrative affair is attracting experienced and novice malware creators alike. Just recently, Japanese police arrested a 17-year-old teenager boy for creating malware that targetted cryptocurrency wallets. As per a report by Mainichi […]
The decentralized home sharing network The BeeToken customers have been tricked into losing Ethereum worth over $1 million or £700,000 thanks to a targeted phishing scam. According to reports, the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) from BeeToken become a victim of a targeted attack due to which investors in this home sharing network’s ICO lost such […]
Forget WannaCry and welcome WannaMine, a fileless cryptojacking malware using leaked NSA exploit called EternalBlue. We cannot ignore the fact that cryptocurrencies are much in demand and monetary worth of digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero have soared tremendously, thereby, increasing the purchasing power and liquidity of cryptocurrency wallets. In such a time, cybercriminals […]
Another day, another Monero mining malware – This one uses two NSA exploits and so far it has mined over 8,900 Monero. It looks like the craze of cryptocurrency mining is taking over the world by storm as every new day there is a new malware targeting unsuspecting users to use their computing power to mine cryptocurrency. Recently, […]
Samsung cryptocurrency mining chips called application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) will soon hit the market and change the way cryptocurrencies are being mined today. Believe it or not but the Korean tech giant Samsung has given in to the cryptocurrency mining craze that companies are currently falling prey to and started developing processors specially designed to mine […]
Security researchers from Proofpoint detected Monero miners that spread using the infamous EternalBlue Exploit. Attackers using persistent Botnet dubbed Smominru to spread the infection through all possible exploits. The year 2017 is well known for Ransomware, data breaches and Hacking attacks targetting Cryptocurrency exchanges. In 2017 WannaCry Ransomware uses the same EternalBlue vulnerability to exploit […]
You might be able to recall the NSA exploit called EternalBlue which was leaked by the hacker group in April last year. The Windows exploit was later used to launch worldwide cyber disaster in the name of WannaCry. Another ransomware, also based on EternalBlue, followed a month later. Now, when cryptocurrency is on the rise […]
Another Ethereum Startup Prodeum Vanished Into Thin Air After Collecting $11 from Investors for ICO and leaves behind a penis. A relatively lesser known and somewhat amateurish Ethereum startup called Prodeum pulled off an exit scam this Sunday and duped ICO investors after cumulatively raising $11 USD in a crowdsale. The startup left its investors […]