Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware in a cryptocurrency exchange attack. According to Kaspersky, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group used a macOS malware to target a cryptocurrency exchange in a recent attack. Securi ty Affairs – APT, hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The ThreatNeedle malware used in this campaign belongs to a malware family known as Manuscrypt, which belongs to the Lazarus group and has previously been seen attacking cryptocurrency businesses.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus). ” reads the press release published by Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The following month, GandCrab bragged that the program in July 2018 netted almost 425,000 victims and extorted more than one million dollars worth of cryptocurrencies, much of which went to affiliates who helped to spread the infections. in threads asking for urgent help obtaining access to hacked businesses in South Korea.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

In the past, the APT targeted banks and cryptocurrency exchanges , according to the experts the overall operations allowed the group to earn $2 billion. “Sansec has found proof of global skimming activity that has multiple, independent links to previously documented, North Korea attributed hacking operations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

While the first two variants exclusively rely on date strings to generate the domain names, the newer version uses balance information obtained from the cryptocurrency wallet address “ 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, domain name system). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. In August, F-Secure Labs experts observed a spear-phishing campaign targeting an organization in the cryptocurrency industry.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2021

Senate Judiciary Committee, and he explained what he views as the top 3 reasons America is under cyber siege through ransomware attacks: "The swelling profitability of these attacks, in part as a result of the growth of cryptocurrencies as a form of extortion payment,". The lack of adequate defenses on the part of many U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. At the time, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. At the end of 2018, the group was involved in several attacks aimed at stealing millions from ATMs across Asia and Africa.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2022

The estimated value of greater Decentralized Finance and cryptocurrencies surpassed half a trillion dollars in market capitalization in 2018, and then one trillion for the first time in 2021 ( 1 ). Since then, cryptocurrency values reached new records during the pandemic. Cryptocurrencies Are Established Via Blockchain Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus APT). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And that's useful when you're hacking, that's what hackers need to be right they need to be creative. And they attack the problem differently. That said, hackers will be hackers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Lazarus APT used the wAgent malware in attacks against cryptocurrency exchanges and businesses. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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