The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Over time, Bitcoin has become the most widely used cryptocurrency in the world. Backup, backup, backup. To guard against data loss, it’s crucial to regularly create backups of your Bitcoin wallet. Wallet backups provide a safety net in the event that your device breaks down, is misplaced, or is stolen.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

As the report starkly states: "The three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilitiesacross every single industry." Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. Threat actors aren't brute-forcing their way inthey're logging in through the front door.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. Digital wallet phish attempts are rampant on social media, and we expect this to rise. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

The group’s affiliates gain access to victims using phishing campaigns to steal credentials and exploiting unpatched software vulnerabilities. Encryption is executed using gaze.exe , which disables security tools, deletes backups, and encrypts files with AES-256 before dropping a ransom note.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 8, 2022

Ledger is one of the biggest hardware cryptocurrency wallets around and scammers have noticed. Phishing mails are in circulation, hoping to snag Ledger users with a sneaky request for passphrases. Ledger has confirmed this is a phishing attempt: Hi! What is a Ledger recovery phrase? How to foil the phishers.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 13, 2025

Cryptocurrency isnt just a buzzword anymore. By December 2024, the number of global cryptocurrency owners reached approximately 659 million, marking a 13% increase from January 2024. Phishing attacks are a known threat, where someone might trick you into giving away personal details or private keys.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Restoration is offered in exchange for a ransom, usually in cryptocurrencies.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2022

Reports indicate a big run on phishing and scams. Where scams sometimes diverge from real fundraising sites is in requesting payment via cryptocurrency. While cryptocurrency is being used for some forms of genuine donation, it’s a bear-pit out there, and this should be a red flag. Cryptocurrency scamming is rampant.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 19, 2025

The attackers claim they deleted data, exfiltrated internal documents, and destroyed backups to inflict maximum disruption. On June 18th, the same group drained and "burned" more than $90 million in cryptocurrency from Nobitex, Iran's la rgest crypto exchange.

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SecureList

APRIL 25, 2025

Specifically, they can modify cryptocurrency wallet addresses during transfer attempts, replace links in browsers, send arbitrary text messages and intercept replies, and steal login credentials for messaging and social media apps. If errors occur, it uses durl2 and durl3 as backup links. Neither payload is encrypted. services class.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Affiliates are the actors who distribute the ransomware through phishing emails, exploit kits, or compromised websites, while access brokers sell access to compromised networks. Bad actors usually demand payment in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Monero, which are difficult to trace and keep their identities anonymous.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2024

That's a high-level generalisation, of course, but whether it's exploiting software vulnerabilities, downloading exposed database backups or phishing admin credentials and then grabbing the data, it's all in the same realm of taking something that isn't theirs. And sometimes, they contact me.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The similarities in code, class name, and registry key strings, led the experts into assessing with high confidence that the MortalKombat ransomware belongs to the Xorist family The malware campaign is targeting individuals, small businesses, and large organizations with the end goal of stealing or demanding ransom payments in cryptocurrency.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 27, 2023

This malware can infiltrate your smartphone through various means, such as malicious apps, infected websites, or phishing emails. If you don’t have a backup, you may lose important files, personal photos, or sensitive documents forever. Understand common phishing techniques and learn how to identify suspicious emails or messages.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These assaults specifically focus on compromising data repositories, backup systems, and vital records that are essential for recovery without capitulating to the attackers’ demands, thus increasing the likelihood of organisations acquiescing. Turn off services sc.exe – Stop backup software from creating recoverable copies.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Depending on the flow of infection, targets can expect to find a demand for payment to unlock encrypted files or sneaky malware looking to grab cryptocurrency details from system clipboard functions. The email is cryptocurrency themed, and claims that a payment of yours has “timed out” and will need resending.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

. “This advisory highlights TTPs and IOCs DPRK cyber actors used to gain access to and conduct ransomware attacks against Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations and other critical infrastructure sector entities, as well as DPRK cyber actors’ use of cryptocurrency to demand ransoms.” Obfuscate Identity.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2024

The attacker then demands a ransom payment, typically in cryptocurrency, in exchange for providing a decryption key or unlocking the system. Data Backups protect against ransomware attacks by allowing restoration of encrypted files, eliminating the need to pay the ransom for decryption.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As the initial vector of their attacks, OldGremlin use spear phishing emails, to which the group adopted creative approach. In other instances, the gang exploited the COVID-19 theme and anti-government rallies in Belarus in their phishing emails. Up-to-date phishing. 1 Phishing email sent on behalf of a Belarusian plant.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Technological tactics.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay. Impersonators are known to use phishing , Business Email Compromise (BEC) and domain spoofing to lure victims, and they’re always looking for new ways to innovate.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Though we may be stuck with endless COVID-19 scams and a gradual visible rise in all manner of cryptocurrency hijinks, the old school attacks are as perilous as ever; CISA, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, have released their 2021 report detailing the increasing globalised threat of the ransomware menace.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 30, 2023

million dollars-worth of illicit cryptocurrency profits. Qakbot is mostly spread through phishing campaigns that include malicious documents as attachments or links to download malicious files. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 8, 2021

The Russian-linked ransomware group encrypted entire networks in the Kaseya supply chain and demanded $70 million in cryptocurrency to deliver a universal decryptor key. It automates the installation of software and security updates and manages backups and other vital tasks.”. It stops if the victim is from a friendly country.

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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. Unfortunately, contemporary events seem to confirm this.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If the compromise is only a minor inconvenience to the victim, and in the absence of a working backup, the victim may choose just to re-image the system. Mining cryptocurrencies requires large amounts of computing power to solve the cryptographic challenges necessary to acquire new cryptocurrency tokens.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

France and Germany will block Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency. Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens. MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

It has been sold on underground hacker forums for stealing browser data, user credentials, and cryptocurrency information. LokiBot LokiBot is a Trojan malware for stealing sensitive information, including user credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other credentials. physically disconnected) backups of data. Enforce MFA.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In March, Proofpoint published a blog post about a new spear-phishing campaign related to the war in Ukraine, tentatively attributed to the Russian-speaking actor UNC1151 (aka TA445 and Ghostwriter). Based on our telemetry, the actor initiated the attack by sending a spear-phishing email containing a macro-embedded Word document.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

This leads to a situation where employees are even more likely to fall victim to phishing attacks or malicious websites that lure employees with relevant COVID-19 headlines or subject lines. The ransomware then demands a sum of money in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency to unlock the data to regain access.

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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. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021.

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Spinone

AUGUST 13, 2019

To be able to access them, you need a digital key, which you will get after you pay a ransom, usually in cryptocurrency. Google Drive Can Become a “Ricocheted Victim” of Ransomware T hrough the Backup & Sync Tool Backup & Sync is a free synchronization tool from Google. Educate yourself and your employees.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the meantime, we can look at alternative measures that make it harder for ransomware attackers to realise their profit, for example ensuring that existing financial regulations are being applied to cryptocurrency exchanges, crypto kiosks, and over-the-counter (OTC) trading “desks”.

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