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A newly discovered trojan, known as Alien, is attacking crypto apps on Android phones, including Coinbase, Blockchain.com, and Luno. This new malware strain is based on the notorious Cerberus trojan, which wreaked havoc in the Google Play store until the team responsible became complacent. Lack of continued distribution allowed Google Play Protect
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Cybersecurity experts at ESET published an in-depth study about a new malware named “KryptoCibule.” This exploit specifically targets Windows users with three methods of attack, including by installing a crypto mining app, directly stealing crypto wallet files, and replacing copy/pasted wallet addresses as a means to hijack individual transactions.According to
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A cybersecurity firm has unearthed a monero mining script embedded in a public instance of an Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual machine. Now the firm is raising the question: How many other community Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) are infected with the same malware? Researchers at Mitiga revealed in a blog post
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A new study indicates that hackers are actively relying on the Dogecoin (DOGE) blockchain to expand a malware payload named “Doki.”According to cybersecurity researchers at Intezer, Doki is a fully undetected backdoor that abuses the Dogecoin blockchain “in a unique way” in order to generate its C2 domain address and
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An advanced malware is utilizing messages hidden within Bitcoin‘s blockchain transactions. These messages send signals to a botnet army ready to attack at command.How exactly is this malware using Bitcoin’s blockchain and why?Glupteba, The Malware-Installing Trojan From 2011 That Uses Blockchain To Command An ArmyGlupteba, a backdoor Trojan designed to
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In a May 28 virtual roundtable before the congressional Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy, witnesses and congresspeople alike feared that they are not keeping up with criminals hacking the financial system.Criminals have better resumes than government agentsOne witness, Guillermo Christensen, a partner at law firm Ice
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The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019.The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26.The report outlined the group’s methodology. The malware attacks servers running ASP.NET applications and
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The Lazarus hacker group, which is allegedly sponsored by the North Korean government, has deployed new viruses to steal cryptocurrency.Major cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reported on Jan. 8 that Lazarus has doubled down its efforts to infect both Mac and Windows users’ computers.The group had been using a modified open-source
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New malicious crypto scheme detected: an ongoing crypto mining malware designed as a photo of Taylor Swift. This crypto mining botnet, which has infected millions of devices across the globe, is reportedly shared in a jpeg file of the award-winning singer Taylor Swift.A recent study by the UK-based cybersecurity firm
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Researchers have published a new report on what they deem to be a “relentless” crypto mining botnet that lurks behind seemingly innocuous content such as JPEG images of Taylor Swift.The botnet — best known as MyKings (alternatively as DarkCloud or Smominru) — has been active since 2016, according to
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