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DeceptiveDevelopment: Attack on software developers
March 22, 2025
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With the "DeceptiveDevelopment" campaign, cybercriminals are specifically targeting software developers looking for jobs. Victims download malware onto their computers along with a test to prove their skills. The criminals aim to obtain login credentials and steal cryptocurrency. ESET researchers have identified a new cyberthreat: In the "DeceptiveDevelopment" campaign, cybercriminals are luring freelance software developers from the cryptocurrency scene into a trap with fake job offers. The goal is to steal cryptocurrency and login credentials. The attacks target Windows, Linux, and macOS users in all regions of the world and use platforms such as LinkedIn, Upwork,...

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Hackers increasingly target Bitcoin wallets
25 January 2025
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Cryptocurrencies are becoming increasingly popular. This has not escaped cybercriminals either. Crypto drainers have been in circulation for about three years, with criminals using a variety of methods to steal bitcoins from their victims' wallets. This malware will probably continue to increase in the future. In December, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin broke the $100.000 mark for the first time, underlining the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies. But this popularity also attracts cybercriminals: Current figures from Kaspersky show a significant increase of 135 percent compared to 2022 in threads on the dark web in which...

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Cryptocurrencies: Hackers use blockchain protocols
August 27, 2024
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Cryptocurrencies: Hackers use blockchain protocols

A leading security solutions provider has discovered a new cryptocurrency scam. Cybercriminals are abusing legitimate blockchain protocols to initiate money transfers from victims' wallets to their own. With a trading volume of over $1,8 trillion, 350 million exchanges and a total value locked (TVL) of over $4 billion, the Uniswap protocol, which launched in 2018, is the largest and most popular decentralized exchange for exchanging cryptocurrency tokens on Ethereum (fifth largest application) and other popular blockchains such as Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism. Safe.Global is similar to…

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New malware variant for macOS devices
31 December 2023
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Jamf's Threat Labs team has identified a new malware variant that targets macOS devices. The malware, called ObjCShellz, is attributed to the financially motivated hacker group BlueNoroff APT from North Korea. The malware differs from previous BlueNoroff attacks in several ways, but follows the group's trend of using simple remote shell functions. These latest attacks are part of the RustBucket campaign, in which BlueNoroff masquerades as an investor or headhunter and often uses domains that impersonate legitimate cryptocurrency companies to infiltrate networks. An analysis by Kaspersky has shown that in many cases the Internet addresses...

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2021: Targeting cryptocurrencies
31 December 2020
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Kaspersky publishes its forecasts for financial cybercrime in 2021: cryptocurrencies in their sights, server-side web skimming and increasing blackmail attempts. The Kaspersky experts present their forecasts on the development of financially motivated cyberattacks in 2021: While many cyber criminals continue to expand their Bitcoin raids, others are likely to make their ransom demands in alternative cryptocurrencies for security reasons and only exchange the sums for Bitcoins later. In addition, blackmail attempts via DDoS attacks and ransomware will continue to increase, with ransomware attackers likely to concentrate more on advanced tactics. They are likely to use the previously extorted money to buy information about vulnerabilities in order to carry out their attacks ...

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Cryptocurrency industry on fire
September 7, 2020
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F-Secure reports: North Korean hackers launch global attack campaign on the cryptocurrency industry. Although the professional attackers covered their tracks, F-Secure was able to reconstruct a global attack by the so-called Lazarus Group. The cybersecurity specialists at F-Secure have published a report in which they link details of a targeted attack on a company in the cryptocurrency industry with the Lazarus Group. The group of hackers, which is believed to have close ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is known for its highly professional approach, which pursues purely financial interests. In the report, F-Secure comes from the combination of ...

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