Digital Shadows

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s been a pretty big year so far for cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies’ current total market cap sits just above $1.7 The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently launched an IPO, India has reversed a ban on cryptocurrencies, and ransomware groups continue to demand payment in anonymity-based cryptocurrency.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

And yet, it’s become such a hot trend that scammers have taken notice and are attempting to lure current and prospective traders onto NFT-themed phishing and fraud websites. We saw this with the early success of the darknet market Silk Road, which accounted for a huge part of the early crypto economy.”. “We billion in 2020. “We

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

million phishing ads for violation of its policies. “In all, we introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018 to address abuses in areas including third-party tech support, ticket resellers, cryptocurrency and local services such as garage door repairmen, bail bonds and addiction treatment facilities.” million phishing ads. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. In 2017, when cryptocurrencies were gaining momentum, their record-breaking capitalization and a spike in Bitcoin’s exchange rate led to dozens of attacks on cryptocurrency services.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The other indictment named Russians affiliated with a skilled hacking group known as “Triton” or “Trisis,” which infected a Saudi oil refinery with destructive malware in 2017, and then attempted to do the same to U.S. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.” ransomware in May 2017, and carried out extortion and attempted extortion from 2017 through 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ He predominately used ‘phishing’ email scams to obtain the financial data of tens of thousands of customers. The police also seized around £1.6

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. Traditionally, the study covers the common phishing threats encountered by users, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2019

Threat actors are carrying out spear-phishing attacks against election officials, in some cases, they are using stolen credentials purchased on the dark web. The Russian meddling to influence Ukraine’s elections is well under way,” Petro Poroshenko told foreign diplomats. ” reported Reuters. ” reported Reuters.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. How did the contagion stop?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. IMG file hosted on a Dropbox account under their control. Threat actors are hiding the malware inside an. ” concludes Cofense.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To infiltrate critical infrastructure networks hackers will continue to use phishing as one of their main tools, but the focus of attacks might shift to vulnerable network equipment connecting the network to the Internet. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. Attacks on Crypto.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If your site experiences a URL redirect — which accounts for 17% of all malware infections — you might see a brief decrease in traffic as your visitors land on another site. Perhaps this low cost is why DDoS accounted for 35% of all cyberattacks in 2017 and continues to be a favorite tactic among cybercriminals. Ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

This year in particular NASA has experienced an uptick in cyber threats: phishing attempts have doubled and malware attacks have increased exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant move to telework for much of the NASA workforce. Further, improper use continued to be the top attack vector type in 2020.".

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, website attacks increased 14 percent in Q1 2018 compared to Q4 2017 as cybercriminals set their sights on independent websites and small businesses. Website attacks increased 14 percent from Q4 2017 to Q1 2018 , confirming that a cyberattack could happen at any time. There’s no such thing as too small to hack.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. This way, with attackers switching to distributing malicious files via phishing emails, it has become more difficult to track the version of the user’s software, or how far the attack went.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. The negative side effect of such active rate limiting is that it creates an incentive for bad actors to create fake accounts and use compromised user computers to diversify their pool of IPs. active blackmarket.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Q2 2021, corporate accounts continued to be one of the most tempting targets for cybercriminals. A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. Quarterly highlights.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. The negative side effect of such active rate limiting is that it creates an incentive for bad actors to create fake accounts and use compromised user computers to diversify their pool of IPs. active blackmarket.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

While investigating an infection of a cryptocurrency company in Southeast Asia, we found Gopuram coexisting on target computers with AppleJeus , a backdoor attributed to the Lazarus. The threat actor specifically targeted cryptocurrency companies. We observed that they have a specific interest in cryptocurrency companies.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This included all contacts, sent and received messages with attached files, names of chats/channels, name and phone number of the account owner – the target’s entire correspondence. We recently detected a phishing campaign targeting cargo shipping companies that drops LokiBot. The end result is the DarkGate loader.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. It stole credentials for various financial systems including online banking applications and cryptocurrency wallets in Brazil. This malware was first spotted in 2017.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Key Mystic Stealer functions include its ability to extract data from web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to Proofpoint the group is targeting cryptocurrencies since at least 2017. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week confirmed that in June 2022 the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group and APT38 stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Blockchain company Harmony Horizon Bridge.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Enterprise ransomware accounts for 81% of total infections, and by market segment, 62% are small to medium-sized businesses ( Symantec ). Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the devices of 79,315 users. 40% users of Kaspersky solutions in the EU encountered at least one phishing attack. 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked by Kaspersky solutions in the EU. Exploit.MSOffice.CVE-2017-11882.gen.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Phishing and Social Engineering. RAM scraper.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Since blockchain’s arrival, cryptocurrency has framed the technology as permissionless, or a public blockchain. The razzmatazz of cryptocurrency hasn’t helped blockchain’s adoption as a technology beyond finance. The Intersection of Cryptocurrency and Cybersecurity. Cryptocurrency Risks for Coins. Block Armour.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In another, they were able to compromise a WebLogic server through an exploit for the CVE-2017-10271 vulnerability, which ultimately allowed them to run a script. VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. The information could later be used to steal both funds from victims’ accounts and their identities.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. The most preferred method of ransom payment is cryptocurrency because it is hard to track. The example – NotPetya cyberattack against Ukraine in 2017. But how does ransomware work?

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