cryptocurrency

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed at least $200 million in a year

European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2019
Malware campaign uses multiple propagation methods, including EternalBlue

Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign that is targeting Asian entities using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2019
Hackers stole $19 Million from Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange

A new cyber heist made the headlines, the victim is Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange and hackers stole $19 Million. Hackers have stolen nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange. The news was first reported by the Primitive Ventures’ Dovey Wan, hackers compromised a number of Bithumb’s hot […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2019
Lazarus APT continues to target cryptocurrency businesses with Mac malware

North Korea-linked Lazarus group made the headlines again, it has been leveraging PowerShell to target both Windows and macOS machines. The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group made has been leveraging PowerShell to target both Windows and macOS machines in a new wave of attacks. The discovery was made by experts at Kaspersky Lab, the campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2019
MetaMask app on Google Play was a Clipboard Hijacker

Security researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered the first Android cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker impersonating MetaMask on the official Google Play store. The rogue MetaMask app is a Clipboard Hikacker that monitors a device’s clipboard for Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses and replaces them with addresses of wallets under the control of the attacker. Using this trick the attackers can transfers funds […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2019
QuadrigaCX exchange lost access to $145 Million funds after founder dies

QuadrigaCX Bitcoin exchange announced to have lost USD 145 million worth of cryptocurrency because the only person with access to its cold storage has died. QuadrigaCX, the major Bitcoin exchange in Canada announced to have lost CAD 190 million (USD 145 million) worth of cryptocurrency because the only person with access to its cold (offline) […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2019
CookieMiner Mac Malware steals browser cookies and sensitive Data

Palo Alto Networks discovered a piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that is targeting browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites.. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed CookieMiner that steals browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites along with other sensitive data. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2019
Experts show that is easy to hack Hardware-based Cryptocurrency Wallets

A team of researchers demonstrated that cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to several type of attacks. During the 35c3 conference held in Leipzig, Germany, the researchers Dmitry Nedospasov, Thomas Roth, ad Josh Datko demonstrated that cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to several type of attacks. The group of researchers presented called “wattet.fail” firmware, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2018
Mac users using Exodus cryptocurrency wallet targeted by a small spam campaign

Security researchers at F-Secure have recently uncovered a small spam campaign aimed at delivering spyware to Mac users that use Exodus wallet. Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The campaign leverages Exodus-themed phishing messages using an attachment named “Exodus-MacOS-1.64.1-update.zip.”  The messages were […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2018
Group-IB experts record a massive surge of user data leaks form cryptocurrency exchanges

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. Security experts from Group-IB, an international company specializing in preventing cyberattacks and developing information security solutions, has investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. Within a year, the number […]