The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An active malware campaign has set its sights on Facebook and YouTube users by leveraging a new information stealer to hijack the accounts and abuse the systems' resources to mine cryptocurrency. Once infected, S1deload Stealer steals

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 22, 2025

In H2 2024, 2025% of Scattered Spiders impersonating domains targeted finance and insurance sectors, while 2530% mimicked cryptocurrency platforms, representing 5055% of their activity.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The macro might also purposely attempt to bypass endpoint security defenses. . The police also seized around 20,000 Euro (around $22,000) in cryptocurrency such as Bitcoins. . The Rubella Macro Builder is cheap, fast and easy to use, the malware it generated can evade antivirus detection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Akira also has potential ties to Conti, another ransomware group, through cryptocurrency transactions, according to Unit 42. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 research team said that Akira led the number of ransomware posts from new leak sites in 2023.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is particularly notable in the case of Lazarus APT, specifically its attacks against cryptocurrency investors in May. Our latest discovery showed that Lazarus leveraged AI-generated images to promote a fake gaming site that exploited a Chrome zero-day vulnerability to steal cryptocurrency.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

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