CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2021
Crooks made more than $560K with a simple clipboard hijacker

Avast researchers analyzed the activity of a simple cryptocurrency malware dubbed HackBoss that allowed its operators to earn over $560K. While the value of major cryptocurrencies continues to increase, cybercriminals and malware authors focus their efforts on cryptocurrency miners and malicious code that could empty the wallets of the victims. The antivirus company Avast analyzed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2018
A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers monitors 2.3 Million Bitcoin addresses

A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers discovered this week by BleepingComputer monitors for more than 2.3 million addresses. Almost any people that have to send cryptocurrency coins use to copy the recipient wallet address into memory from one application and use it to make the transaction. Crooks’ interest in cryptocurrency continues to grow and new malware was specifically […]