Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Affiliates paid fees to administrators like Ptitsyn for decryption keys, with payments routed via unique cryptocurrency wallets from 2021–2024. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

Cybercrime 114

Cybercrime Ransomware Healthcare Education 114

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy XMRig cryptocurrency miner on macOS systems. This malware relies on the i2p (Invisible Internet Project) anonymization network for communication. The experts identified three generation of malware since August 2019. ” concludes the report.

Cryptocurrency 98

Cryptocurrency Malware Software Passwords 98

Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. ” Putinkrab’s final post came on August 23, 2019. Image: Ke-la.com.

Ransomware 306

Ransomware Cybercrime Accountability Malware 306

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. Once a key was invalidated, Coinhive would simply cut out the middleman and proceed to keep 100 percent of the cryptocurrency mined by sites tied to that account from then on.

Cryptocurrency 224

Cryptocurrency Hacking Accountability Internet 224

Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns conducted by North Korea-linked APT groups against two cryptocurrency exchanges. In the second attack, threat actors stole $2.5

Cryptocurrency 125

Cryptocurrency Hacking Advertising Accountability 125

Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

Despite a very slim browser market share, Internet Explorer (IE) is still being exploited by exploit kits like the RIG exploit kit (EK). According to Malwarebytes’ Senior Director of Threat Intelligence Jérôme Segura: “RIG EK is probably one of the last exploit kits targeting Internet Explorer still around.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Social Engineering Malware 98

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. in the stolen data.

Cryptocurrency 62

Cryptocurrency Identity Theft Cybercrime Malware 62

Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. .

Cryptocurrency 101

Cryptocurrency Internet Internet Malware 101

Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Alex Holden , founder of the cybersecurity intelligence firm Hold Security, said Witte’s greatest lapse in judgment came around Christmas time in 2019, when she infected one of her own computers with the Trickbot malware — allowing it to steal and log her data within the botnet interface.

Cybercrime 357

Cybercrime Ransomware Passwords Banking 357

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. Cybercriminals used the names of well-known APT groups to intimidate victims, demanded ransoms in cryptocurrency, and carried out demonstration attacks to back up their threats.

DDOS 145

DDOS Cryptocurrency Marketing Internet 145

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data from about 60 applications, including (browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, email and FTP clients). Since April 2019, experts already detected more than 100,000 raccoon related events, with a peak in detections in July 2019.

Malware 127

Malware Cryptocurrency Advertising Hacking 127

Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. This essay previously appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy.

Cybersecurity 272

Cybersecurity Technology Government Internet 272

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

Multiple threat actors are exploiting this flaw since January, in January VMware urged customers to patch critical Log4j security vulnerabilities impacting Internet-exposed VMware Horizon servers targeted in ongoing attacks. In some cases, the attackers used exploited the RCE to install the Jin Miner cryptocurrency miner instead of NukeSped.

Cryptocurrency 145

Cryptocurrency Internet Internet Malware 145

The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

And earlier this year, three popular “ selfie beauty apps ”– Pro Selfie Beauty Camera, Selfie Beauty Camera Pro and Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 – accessible in Google Play Store were revealed to actually be tools to spread adware and spyware. This happened as most of the cryptocurrencies increased in value.

Adware 176

Adware Mobile Spyware Banking 176

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some 20 years ago, the founders of Amazon and Google essentially set the course for how the internet would come to dominate the way we live. Blockchain technology in 2019 may prove to be what the internet was in 1999. However, cryptocurrencies are only one small part of blockchain technology. I’ll keep watch.

Technology 179

Technology Cryptocurrency Internet Internet 179

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. in the stolen data.

Identity Theft 126

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Hacking Cybercrime 126

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. A noticeable development was the prominence of cryptocurrency-related phishing scams. Banking malware for PC.

Banking 139

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 139

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Security experts spotted a new botnet, tracked as KashmirBlack botnet, that likely infected hundreds of thousands of websites since November 2019. The KashmirBlack botnet has been active at least since November 2019, operators leverages dozens of known vulnerabilities in the target servers. .”

Advertising 125

Advertising Cryptocurrency Internet Internet 125

Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. The FBI received a record number of reports last year totaling 791,790, a 69% growth from 2019. billion in 2019 to $4.2 billion in 2020.

Scams 117

Scams Computers and Electronics Phishing Internet 117

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. in the stolen data.

Identity Theft 118

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Hacking Cybercrime 118

Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. The switch occurred in February when Raccoon Stealer temporarily halted its activity as one of its developers was killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Banking 120

Banking Cryptocurrency Malware Hacking 120

SecureList

MARCH 3, 2022

It is also worth noting that in 2021 the vectors of monthly fluctuations (increases and decreases) are the same as those in 2019 and, particularly, in 2018 more often than in 2020. However, compared to 2018 and 2019, the summer decrease in the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked was less pronounced in 2021.

Spyware 129

Spyware Ransomware Cryptocurrency Phishing 129

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

” The group has been active since 2019, the NetWalker ransomware has been offered with the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. in cryptocurrency obtained from ransom payments. You can also file a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.”. million ransom to recover its files.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Healthcare Cryptocurrency Government 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control (C&C) operations. Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency -mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control. ” continues Talos.

Architecture 106

Architecture Cryptocurrency Malware Advertising 106

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data from about 60 applications, including (browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, email and FTP clients). And this goes beyond usernames and passwords to information that can get them immediate financial gain like credit card information and cryptocurrency wallets.”

Cybercrime 129

Cybercrime Malware Cryptocurrency Advertising 129

Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations managing supercomputers across Europe reported their systems have been compromised to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Crooks have compromised supercomputers across Europe to deploy cryptocurrency miners, incidents have been already reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. ” reported ZDNet.

Hacking 131

Hacking Cryptocurrency Advertising Malware 131

Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The malware is an evolution of a Monero cryptocurrency miner that was first spotted by Unit 42 researchers in 2019. Disable the iptables firewall so that the malware will have full access to the internet. To avoid detection, the cryptocurrency Monero miner uses the native Linux feature LD_PRELOAD.

Malware 119

Malware Cryptocurrency Firewall Cybercrime 119

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

It is the third large French-speaking platform seized by the local police after Black Hand in 2018 and French Deep Web Market in 2019. French authorities seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, the operation is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime activity in the dark web. Pierluigi Paganini.

Cybercrime 145

Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Banking Mobile 145

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

An operation coordinated by Interpol, dubbed Goldfish Alpha, dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency network operating in Southeast Asia. Interpol announced that it has coordinated a successful international operation aimed at removing cryptocurrency miners that infected routers located in Southeast Asia. ” reported Trend Micro. .

Cryptocurrency 97

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Internet Internet 97

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of threat actors targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Do not expose your NAS to the internet, or avoid using default system port numbers 443 and 8080.

Cryptocurrency 110

Cryptocurrency Ransomware Malware Passwords 110

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems.

Cyber Attacks 94

Cyber Attacks Penetration Testing Cryptocurrency Hacking 94

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The internet was the main source of threats causing these increases. The internet, removable media and email continue to be the main sources of threats to computers in ICS environments. Threats from the internet were blocked on 18.2% which continued a downward trend that began in H2 2019. in Hong Kong (20.8%); 6 p.p.

Spyware 134

Spyware Media Internet Internet 134

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The experts reported that several IoT devices at some major manufacturers have been infected with a cryptocurrency miner in October 2019. Attackers employed downloader that runs malicious scripts associated with a cryptocurrency miner named Lemon_Duck. ” reads the report p ublished by TrapX.”First,

Manufacturing 145

Manufacturing IoT Malware Cryptocurrency 145

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. In a recent campaign, the group targeted i686 and x86_64 Linux systems and uses RCE exploits for CVE-2022-26134 (Atlassian Confluence) and CVE-2019-2725 (WebLogic) for initial access.

Cryptocurrency 103

Cryptocurrency Malware Internet Internet 103

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In addition, some scammers convince their targets into investing in fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes, a method known as pig butchering. While these scams are nothing new, their popularity has risen since the pandemic and ensuing loneliness epidemic , driven by an increasing reliance on the internet to connect. billion in 2022 to $4.6

Scams 142

Scams Media Cryptocurrency Internet 142

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And the targets in this case are widespread: banks, ATMs, cryptocurrency exchanges, online casinos, movie studios such as Sony Pictures, and theater chains such as AMC. Cyber-Enabled Heists from Banks: Attempts from 2015 through 2019 to steal more than $1.2 million from an Indonesian cryptocurrency company in September 2018; and $11.8

Hacking 109

Hacking Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics Banking 109

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Security firm of Cisco says the malware also can steal cryptocurrency, thanks to its add-on of Laplas, that has the ability to replace the crypto address on the Windows Clipboard and substitute it with the one dictated by the threat actor. As it not only encourages crime but also doesn’t guaranty a decryption key for sure.

Ransomware 102

Ransomware Malware Healthcare Cryptocurrency 102