Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If you’re a user of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, it’s time to be on your guard against phishing attacks. Gemini is now offering security advice and tips to guard against phishing attacks for anyone contained in the data. Breaches in cryptocurrency land are always a major issue.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. Parth Patel is an entrepreneur who is trying to build a startup in the cryptocurrency space. I had to go through and decline like 100-plus notifications.”

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 27, 2024

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has explained how its Twitter account was compromised - despite it having sensible security precautions in place, such as strong passwords and multi-factor authentication. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, has stolen around $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Phishing attacks are nothing new, but scammers are getting savvier with their tactics. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Here are four new phishing trends keeping businesses on their toes. Spear phishing. Phishing via texting.

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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. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Cybercriminals are targeting Coinbase platform users with phishing campaings in an attempt to steal their account credentials and drain their cryptocurrency wallets, Bitdefender Antispam Lab has learned. According to our latest telemetry, the phishing campaign was noticed since mid-February, targeting over 25,000 users.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link added to the target’s calendar at Calendly , a popular application for scheduling appointments and meetings. The attackers impersonate established cryptocurrency investors and ask to schedule a video conference call.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 21, 2023

Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. [.]

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

Researchers from RiskIQ have discovered a new phishing kit dubbed LogoKit that dynamically compose phishing content. Researchers from RiskIQ discovered a new phishing kit that outstands for its ability to dynamically create phishing messages to target specific users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Phishing).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. ” A phishing message targeting FTX users that went out en masse today.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. In a filing with the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 28, 2021

The victim is typically sent to a phishing page where accounts, payment details, identities, or other things can be stolen. We first observed the technique used on gamers back in 2014, and it eventually branched out into bank phishing. No company worth bothering with will ever ask for your password so don’t give them out.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. 2, and Aug.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. PayPal phishing sites are a dime a dozen due to the number of people and companies using it as another form of payment method. This was evident after Akamai found an attacker had planted a phishing kit on its WordPress honeypot.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

Also, we have previously reported on cryptocurrency-focused BlueNoroff attacks. It appears that BlueNoroff shifted focus from hitting banks and SWIFT-connected servers to solely cryptocurrency businesses as the main source of the group’s illegal income. Malware infection. Archive file and its contents.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

What does phishing mean? What’s phishing? Phishing is a simple and popular way for hackers trick and hook you. Spear phishing is a special type. Why is there a ‘p’ in phishing? A bit like ‘hodl’ (hold) to cryptocurrency investors. For example, what is ransomware and how does it work? Or zero trust?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that hide the code to hijack cryptocurrency wallets. Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that contain the code to steal sensitive information and hijack cryptocurrency wallets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . This is a real email!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

On Thursday, US authorities arrested two crooks charging them with stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency from at least 10 victims using SIM swapping. American law enforcement has declared war to sim swapping scammers and announced the arrest of two individuals for stealing $550,000 in Cryptocurrency. In May, the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2023

An advisory from the company states that a "highly sophisticated" SIM swapping attack targeted one of Kroll's employees, resulting in unauthorized access to personal information related to bankruptcy claimants associated with cryptocurrency firms FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

Well, there’s a “potential vulnerability” which allowed spambots to post phishing links to other users. There’s no further information on how this occurred, but situations like this can happen if a channel’s administrator gets phished. Sadly, spamming phish links is not supposed to be one of them.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bryan hijacked social media and bitcoin accounts using a mix of voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks and “ SIM swapping ,” a form of fraud that involves bribing or tricking employees at mobile phone companies. Milleson , 21 of Timonium, Md. and 19-year-old Kingston, Pa. resident Kyell A.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Although googleapis.com is a legitimate service provided by Google, it’s being abused by all sorts of cybercriminals for phishing, tech support scams, and in this case fingerprinting. Simply changing the password is not always enough. Change your password on Facebook if you’re already logged in: Click your profile picture.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

The attack spotted by the researchers used phishing messages posing as Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The content of the messages attempted to trick the recipients into opening a password-protected RAR archive. Once the archive is opened, the infection chain starts leading to the deployment of the JinxLoader payload.

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Anton on Security

JULY 7, 2022

this is another gem for me as your security posture may still be solely focused on “critical” assets and data loss, and hence miss the theft of cloud services that you pay for] “In 2022, actors have attempted to commit cloud network resources to mine cryptocurrencies that require network bandwidth. ” [A.C.?—?this

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

GokuMarket, a cryptocurrency exchange, was recently acquired by Canada-based crypto exchange ByteX. Additionally, the team discovered that the database held 35 accounts with full-admin access, including private Telegram channel IDs, exchange platform secret tokens, passwords, and other extremely sensitive information.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

A new macOS malware—called MacStealer—that is capable of stealing various files, cryptocurrency wallets, and details stored in specific browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Brave, was discovered by security researchers from Uptycs, a cybersecurity company specializing in cloud security. Users of macOS Catalina (10.5)

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

On April 3 of this year, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced that APT43 was in-volved in cryptocurrency theft and digital currency laundering. Additionally, a new spying team named Archipelago, a subset of APT43, has emerged and is using phishing tactics to tar-get potential victims.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Microsoft researchers warn of the rising threat of cryware targeting non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Microsoft warns of the rise of cryware, malicious software used to steal info an dfunds from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Password and info stealers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2021

According to a data breach notification letter filed with US state attorney general offices, the attackers with the knowledge of their username and password and phone number associated with the account, were able to steal funds bypassing the SMS-based authentication. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cryptocurrency). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2022

million accounts by trying reused passwords Intercepting 2FA: Over 1200 man-in-the-middle phishing toolkits detected Card skimmers strike Sotheby’s in Brightcove supply chain attack Careful!

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