CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In December 2021, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered the intense activities being conducted by Glupteba Botnet on the internet and filed a lawsuit in a district court of New York. Google won the lawsuit against two Russian nationals who were found guilty in operating the said botnet network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

We already know that North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is fulfilling his nuclear ambitions by stealing currency from banks, stealing cryptocurrency from individual accounts, and raiding crypto exchanges to steal currency. But now have spread malware in disguise of a PDF file to employees in reputable positions at Coinbase.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

Cryptocurrencies are still the main means of payment, but due to the higher customer-binding, and vetting process by the merchant, escrows are seldom employed. All interaction is digital -- messaging systems and cryptocurrencies again, product moves only through dead drops.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As per the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) of Google, the criminals are using such compromised devices to mine cryptocurrency, steal credentials from victims, and use them as proxies to hide their attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

US Treasury has endorsed the news and tagged it as one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time. Gamers on Axie can earn cryptocurrency for playing and winning games and selling their avatars. Highly placed sources say that the steal of funds was made to find the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong UN.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. The GTM tag management system allows developers to inject JavaScript and HTML content within their apps for tracking and analytics purposes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The funding project aims to be transparent, any donors can track how that money is being used by the foundation, the Tor Project will tag any bug tickets that utilize the money of the fund with the “BugSmashFund” tag. “Want to contribute anonymously, with cryptocurrency , or by mail? Here’s how.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Switching back to the Netherlands I got to “enjoy” sites with explicit content, scam sites where celebrities encourage investing in cryptocurrencies, and websites offering browser push notifications. Unfortunately when I set my VPN to pretend I was located in Germany, the script identified it as an anonymous proxy and stopped there.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2022

The hijackers compromise the account, switch the picture to Elon, and then start spamming cryptocurrency links. To enter: Follow me & @GrumpyKatzNFT Like & RT Tag 3 friends. Followers of the actor were initially a bit surprised by the sudden interest in all things cryptocurrency. Getting up to some monkey business.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

Every Year only those who pass out with flying colors are moved to Universities where they are trained in related fields such as computer science and military warfare and after that they are tagged as a member of elite army comprising 7000 individuals (for now) who are well versed in spreading digital chaos and confusion on the World Wide Web.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

” The droppers are designed to target include 231 banking and cryptocurrency wallet apps from entities in Italy, the U.K., “Android offers a way to tag the content of the window as secure, by using the “FLAG_SECURE” , which prevents it “from appearing in screenshots or from being viewed on non-secure displays”.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The report was published by Google's Cybersecurity Action Team and is based on observations from its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and other internal teams. 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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

The site the imitation linked to has already been shut down but was something to do with cryptocurrency. Because of his account having been originally verified as himself , we now have a situation where a fake New York Times account says this: The profile is tagged as potentially being a legacy verified account or subscribed to Twitter Blue.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

As the price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin pushes record highs, there’s been a corresponding resurgence in cryptomining malware. The data was leaked in an October data breach, which Nitro confirmed, and was bundled for auction with a high price tag. Skyrocketing Bitcoin prices prompt resurgence in mining malware.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Unlike other botnets, Gluteba leverages cryptocurrency blockchains as a command-and-control mechanism in an attempt to make it more resilient to takeover. This week, Google announced it has won a nearly year-long legal battle against the Glupteba botnet.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

Since cryptocurrencies were, are and will continue to be impactful technologies, surely NFTs are a topic worth exploring. NFTs use the same blockchain ledger technology to verify uniqueness that cryptocurrencies rely on to prove ownership. “What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Perhaps NFTs are a bubble positioned to pop.

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SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2022

VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies. sources: the DLL version is tagged as “heads/3.7-dirty” dirty” [1] (instead of “tags/v3.7.4” adsoftpic[.]com. azcloudazure[.]com. azureservicesapi[.]com.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For others, it means cryptocurrency. Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2022

They’re tagged as a mixture of phishing, tech support, and fake invoices. Pretty much everything after September is a Canon printer scam—from bogus tech support and remote mobile/desktop connections to people being signed up to cryptocurrency and references to ransomware. It turns out that you actually can (to a degree).

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

For the Lazarus threat actor, financial gain is one of the prime motivations, with a particular emphasis on the cryptocurrency business. This application contains a legitimate program called DeFi Wallet that saves and manages a cryptocurrency wallet, but also implants a malicious file when executed. the others.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2022, the same threat actor started spoofing various important entities in South Korea, including KRNIC (Korea Internet Information Center), Korean security vendors such as Ahnlab, cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, and others. The theme of the file is related to cryptocurrency investments. Figure 4: Email sent to the victim.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yet Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are mere pieces of the puzzle. In essence, paths in Wildland are like tags, which allow you to organize, sort, search through, etc., LW: There has been endless discussions about the potential for cryptocurrencies to materially disrupt legacy fiat currencies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The campaign tag “ The spyware also automatically signs up victims for premium service subscriptions for various advertisements, the malware is able to automate the necessary interaction with the premium offer’s webpage, including intercepting the SMS containing the confirmation code. The C&C URL 6.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Also, cryptocurrencies allow these attackers to collect their ransoms with almost anonymity. In September there was another campaign that used emails to deliver Trickbot, an effort that Microsoft linked to an emerging and financially motivated cybercriminal gang that the software giant has tagged as DEV-0193. Trickbot Attacks.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It targets the Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the form of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). cp -rf /root/Desktop/tools/html-templates/* /var/www/html/ls /var/www/html/ Modify the index.html file and paste the below code under the HTML <body> tag. <script>

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Primarily, that includes any social media and email accounts, as well as associated financial instruments such as bank accounts and any cryptocurrencies. Nixon said many companies will likely balk at the price tag associated with equipping each employee with a physical security key.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We’ve previously seen and reported to our Threat Intelligence Report customers that a very similar technique was used when the Lazarus group attacked cryptocurrency businesses with an evolved downloader malware. Debugging log of cryptocurrency business case. More details are provided in the Attribution section.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

And I’m not talking about services that can quote remove your buddy’s Instagram photos where you are tagged doing something Not Safe For Work. For that you're going to need cryptocurrency. Here's when you buy some cryptocurrency and set up a wallet. This is cryptocurrency laundering. They're known as tumblers.

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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. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging. These may be emails sent to millions of potential victims or targeted emails sent to a specific person in a particular organization.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

Tags on an ad offering a job amid the crisis See translation how to earn money amid crisis make some cash during pandemic make money during coronavirus coronavirus updates pandemic jobs jobs amid crisis Some jobseekers lost all hope to find steady, legitimate employment and began to search on dark web forums, spawning a surge of resumes there.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. We previously observed the Lazarus group utilizing this cluster when attacking cryptocurrency businesses and a mobile game company. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. NukeSped), a family belonging to the Lazarus group.

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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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