Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2024, that’s changed, as the uses for fake IDs have become enmeshed with the internet. Want to sign up for a cryptocurrency exchange where you’ll use traditional funds to purchase and exchange digital currency? What about if you want to watch porn online in the US state of Louisiana? In short, it did.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, are a directory traversal issue and an authentication bypass vulnerability respectively.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. In order to discover potential targets and locate the information it needs to authenticate against, the script passively collects data from /.ssh/config,bash_history,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Third is the news related to 2FA Authenticator that is seen distributing malware. But in the background, 2FA Authenticator found in Google Play does nothing to improve security and instead seeks permissions from the user to install updates directly from the internet, instead of the Google Play.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. ” On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug. In an Aug.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Methodology In this report, we present an analysis of financial cyberthreats in 2023, focusing on banking Trojans and phishing pages that target online banking, shopping accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and other financial assets. Cryptocurrency phishing saw a 16% year-on-year increase in 2023, with 5.84 million in 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

A few years ago, the term cryptocurrency was only used among the tech elite and the only type available for purchase was Bitcoin. Fast forward to 2018 when the average consumer is able to invest and has a pick of over 1,800 different kinds of cryptocurrencies to choose from. dollars via crypto hacks and scams.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

The higher the global popularity of cryptocurrencies and the more new ways of storing them, the wider the arsenal of tools used by malicious actors who are after digital money. This story covers two fundamentally different methods of email attacks on the two most popular ways of storing cryptocurrency: hot and cold wallets.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? But to find that information back in 2014, he had to scan the Internet, the entire internet and that was a very noisy process.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. 9, 2024, U.S. According to an Aug.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The crypto-miner Kinsing was first spotted by security firm Aqua Security in April 2020, at the time the experts spotted threat actors scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 23, 2023

The ATMs, located in various convenience stores, function along the lines of regular banking ATMs except your dealings are all in the cryptocurrency realm. Keeping your hot wallet safe Your cryptocurrency wallet type is an article all to its own , but in most cases you’re going to have a wallet which is hot or cold.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Absent from GoDaddy’s SEC statement is another spate of attacks in November 2020, in which unknown intruders redirected email and web traffic for multiple cryptocurrency services that used GoDaddy in some capacity. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting.

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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. A copy of his complaint is here (PDF). ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

Cryptocurrency ATM maker General Bytes suffered a security breach over the weekend, the hackers stole $1.5M worth of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency ATM manufacturers General Bytes suffered a security incident that resulted in the theft of $1.5M worth of cryptocurrency. Attackers also stole funds in other cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The advertisements impersonate websites of financial organizations and cryptocurrency exchange platforms. Below are the recommendations provided by the FBI to online users: Before clicking on an advertisement, check the URL to make sure the site is authentic. Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

The variant they focused on uses a range of known exploits for vulnerabilities in web apps and databases to install cryptocurrency miners on both Windows and Linux systems. Once it has gained a foothold and the bot malware is running on a compromised system it deploys a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The favorite cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2023

million in critical infrastructure cyber projects via new program Ivanti Ships Urgent Patch for API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Defense contractor Belcan leaks admin password with a list of flaws Leaseweb is restoring ‘critical’ systems after security breach Microsoft is now a cybersecurity titan.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2020

The first public signs of the intrusion came around 3 PM EST, when the Twitter account for the cryptocurrency exchange Binance tweeted a message saying it had partnered with “CryptoForHealth” to give back 5000 bitcoin to the community, with a link where people could donate or send money.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that bZx, a crypto finance based company, was hacked recently to steal $55m worth of cryptocurrency and the company’s IT team is still wondering how the hacker made it into the Ethereum related network. Therefore, users are being urged to revoke permissions set by them to any contracts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO. Mr. Zhabykin soon moved on to bigger ventures, co-founding a cryptocurrency exchange based in Moscow’s financial center called Suex.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

The dispute between Ray’s developers and security researchers highlights hidden assumptions and teaches lessons for AI security, internet-exposed assets, and vulnerability scanning through an understanding of ShadowRay. Let’s examine these assumptions in the context of AI security, internet exposed resources, and vulnerability scanning.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. SIM swapping attacks primarily target individuals who are visibly active in the cryptocurrency space.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The development team behind the Jenkins server disclose a security breach, threat actors deployed a cryptocurrency miner on one of its servers. The development team behind the Jenkins Project disclosed a security breach after threat actors compromised one of their internal servers and installed a cryptocurrency miner.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The FBI announcement includes tips to protect people from such kind of attacks; feds recommend checking the URL obtained by scanning a QR code to make sure it is the intended site and looks authentic. Threat actors could use a malicious domain name that is similar to the intended URL but with typos or a misplaced letter.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

But it has also proven to be a profound constraint on the full blossoming of cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Smart told me about how MPC has attracted the attention of the cryptocurrency community, in particular the purveyors of crypto currency exchanges and the suppliers of digital wallets.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 19, 2023

The metaverse may ultimately become the next generation of the internet. Since the metaverse is likely to rely on cryptocurrencies, criminals can use these environments to hide their activities, which will result in problems with ransomware. This happened with other internet waves, such as e-commerce. Money laundering.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Facebook is intending to ban cryptocurrency related advertisements on its platform from November 2021, as they are leading to online scams and money loss schemes targeting to thousands of individuals using Facebook irrespective of their age.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2021

Internet crime is ever present, and with the ongoing pandemic, levels of scams and fraud were exceptionally high in 2020. “In 2020, the IC3 observed an increase in the number of BEC/EAC complaints related to the use of identity theft and funds being converted to cryptocurrency,” according to the report.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They would just keep jamming a few individuals to get [remote] access, read some onboarding documents, enroll a new 2FA [two-factor authentication method] and exfiltrate code or secrets, like a smash-and-grab,” the CXO said. “These guys were not leet , just damn persistent.” ” HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Europol investigators revealed that the cybercrime organization stole more than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency using SIM Swapping attacks. ” Crooks conducted SIM swapping attacks to steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. Use strong multi-factor authentication methods such as biometrics, physical security tokens, or standalone authentication applications to access online accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This leads us to the first section of the report, which is dedicated to looking at how malicious actors use compromised Google Cloud instances for cryptocurrency mining. Cryptocurrency mining has taken off in popularity in the last few years, for end users and threat actors alike. Compromised Google Cloud used for cryptomining.

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