Tag: Cryptocurrency

Darkgate is a multifunction malware active since December 2017 which combines ransomware, credential stealing, and RAT and cryptomining abilities.

A financially motivated threat actor is actively targeting unprotected Apache NiFi instances to secretly install cryptocurrency mining software.

In the past month, several Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have fallen victim to hacking incidents due to a sophisticated phishing attack.

A financially motivated threat actor from Indonesia known as GUI-vil has been identified using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.

Google advertisements have been used to distribute malware, including the LOBSHOT malware, which has remained undetected for months.

The IRS plans to send four cybercrime investigators to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany this summer to combat crimes involving cryptocurrency.

The US Department of Justice has indicted Huihui Wu and Hung Man Cheng for their role in converting stolen cryptocurrency into hard currency and goods.

The North Korean threat actor Lazarus Group, is shifting its focus from targeting only cryptocurrency businesses to a wider range of industries.

The FTX cryptocurrency exchange, which declared bankruptcy last year, has been shown to have had some of the poorest cybersecurity practices imaginable.

A supply chain attack targeting .NET developers has been detailed, exposing the inner workings of the cryptocurrency stealer malware.