Tag: Cryptocurrency

RedLine Stealer is a trending Infostealer and was first observed in March 2020. Sold as a MaaS, and often distributed via malicious email attachments.

Pegasus is a highly sophisticated spyware which targets Android and iOS mobile devices, developed by the Israeli NSO group.

NSRMiner is a cryptominer that surfaced around November 2018, and was mainly spread in Asia, specifically Vietnam, China, Japan and Ecuador.

Floating Point Group (FPG), an institutional trading desk specializing in cryptocurrencies, has suffered a significant cyber attack.

Cryptojackers are known to exploit network vulnerabilities and steal computer resources as a way to mine for cryptocurrencies.

Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner have been charged with hacking the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011.

The developers of Atomic Wallet are currently investigating a significant theft of cryptocurrency from users' wallets, with over $35 million.

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.