Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were used to promote NFT and other crypto scams. The YouTube account was used to transmit an older Elon Musk clip that attempts to trick users into visiting cryptocurrency scam sites.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

In this post, we'll look at a campaign, that targeted multiple 3D or digital artists using NFT, with malware named RedLine. As a side-note; NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital tokens tied to assets that can be bought, sold and traded. Analysis : analysis of the attack and the malware used.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2023

There’s a big push in rogue advert land at the moment, with multiple forms of bogus websites being used as bait to rob people of their logins and funds. This story first came to light a few days ago, with news of a well known cryptocurrency fan "NFT God" being caught out by a bogus video recording tool.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 23, 2022

It’s such a common practice that you even see digital advertising used to track appearing in video games. NFT NYC describes itself as “the leading annual non-fungible token event” The 2022 meet-up is the fourth such event to take place. Bluetooth beacons work in tandem with geofenced billboards to send you offers.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

As the price of cryptocurrency surges, and the popularity of non-fungible token (NFT) and decentralized finance (DeFi) businesses continues to swell, the Lazarus group’s targeting of the financial industry keeps evolving. The malware operator exclusively used compromised web servers located in South Korea for this attack.

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Errata Security

MARCH 26, 2021

I'm going to use 4 sample tokens that have been sold for outrageous prices as examples. #1 An NFT token has a unique number, analogous to: your social security number (SSN#) your credit card number the VIN# on your car the serial number on a dollar bill etc. and how do the NFTs link to it? Does it give copyrights? on the web?),

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Fraudsters also use residential proxies, which are infected domestic devices, to access targeted websites indirectly and avoid tracking. One residential proxy service popular among Chinese fraudsters is “911,” which is built using software distributed under the guise of a free VPN service.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

With children now back at school, it’s time to think about social media, and their use of it. Social networks are absolutely in the business of providing services for free, and then using analytics to drive advertising on their sites. Back in the olden days, most of us were online using a pseudonym.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Our research led us to the discovery of command-and-control (C2) domains even before they were used in active attacks by the threat actor.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

NFT-mania, pronounced nifty , is upon us with little time to prepare. From news of a collage selling for almost $70 million at Christie’s auction house to a portrayal of Janet Yellen and Morpheus rapping about cryptocurrency on SNL , the current craze is all about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). How do NFTs work?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2021

I'm going to use 4 sample tokens that have been sold for outrageous prices as examples. #1 An NFT token has a unique number, analogous to: your social security number (SSN#). and how do the NFTs link to it? Our four examples of NFT mentioned above show four different answers to this question. Does it give copyrights?

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

The amount of cryptocurrency-related phishing grew significantly in 2022, and with an endless array of new coins, NFT and other DeFi projects, scammers are continuously duping users. Individuals who use these products voluntarily made their data available to us through Kaspersky Security Network. In 2022, 36.3%

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

It emerged alongside the explosion of Web3/NFT/cryptocurrency popularity, and ensures scammers get a slice of the money pie. Confusingly, the term has multiple uses jostling for attention. An Apple Airdrop is where Bluetooth is used to send files to other people. Airdrop phishing is a really popular tactic at the moment.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That original report characterized the illicit uses of cryptocurrency into three broad categories of criminality: . The Colonial Pipeline ransomware and the use by indicted GRU agents of bitcoin, the theft of $600 Million by Lazarus Group hackers in March 2022 are all used to update the original report. .

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NopSec

DECEMBER 27, 2022

and Solana, securing smart contract powered NFT and DeFi applications such as Maker and OpenSea, and developing financial primitives for Layer 1 blockchain ecosystems.” ERC-20 tokens are digital assets designed, issued, and used just like Bitcoins, except they run solely on the Ethereum blockchain. Problem solved. This is a win-win!

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The "executives" claimed to have wonderful ape-related NFT projects waiting in the wings. This may well turn out to be a case of Amazon seeing how well we’ve trained players to follow the trail of digital breadcrumbs. Sadly, it was all a large ape-shaped lie. Will they gravitate towards ads while not being able to see them?

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NopSec

MARCH 29, 2023

The attacks range from phishing campaigns scamming prominent crypto personalities of their NFT (Non-fungible tokens) stashes to attackers exploiting crypto protocols and encryption algorithms to extract tokens out of various crypto ecosystems. These are then used to masquerade as the user and perform transactions on their behalf.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just as the use of the word Crypto is confusing here -- is it cryptography or is it cryptocurrency? Here, to the use of the word router here is also not part of your internet gateway but simply a route to get from one currency, say Bitcoin, to another. Vamosi: There are a lot of new words and terms being used here.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This is further evidence that the same botnets are often used for mining and DDoS. The attackers used a TCP data flood: they established a TCP connection to the victim’s server, then flooded it with random heavy TCP packets. In some cases, DNS amplification was also used. beta9 to 2.14.1,

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