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The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have now launched another malware loader to facilitate their botnet Trojan. This time, they have used the Smoke Loader […]
Newly Emerging DDoS botnet attack that targets one of the most popular bitcoin wallet Electrum and now it reaches the 152,000 infected hosts. This DDoS Botnet rapidly growing and takes many hosts Under its control since April 24 when the number of infected machines in the botnet was just below 100,000 but its keep increasing […]
A campaign of complex denial-of-service (DoS) attacks was launched against the servers of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, reported ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. So far the exact amount that the incident has cost is still unknown, although it is estimated that the stolen assets could be worth millions […]
This year we have seen an unprecedented rise in malware attacks against cryptocurrency wallets whereas cryptomining incidents have increased by 4,000%, reports McAfee. The latest attack on well-known Bitcoin wallet Electrum further proves that malware attacks on crypto wallets are indeed on a rise. According to reports, Electrum Bitcoin wallet has been attacked and hackers […]