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Lazarus - also known as APT38, BlueNoroff, and Stardust Chollima - is casting a wide net with this campaign, with targets including cryptocurrency exchanges, decentralized finance protocols, pay-to-earn cryptocurrency video games, and crypto-coin trading companies. The TraderTraitor apps come with a range of names, such as DAFOM, which purports to be a cryptocurrency portfolio app; TokenAIS and CryptAIS, for building AI-based trading portfolios for cryptocurrencies; and Esilet, for live cryptocurrency prices.
A new wave of cryptocurrency systems dubbed De-Fi, short for decentralised finance, has arisen to fill that transactional void. Instead of depositing your funds with a licensed and regulated bank, and then trading with those funds by choosing from a carefully curated list of transaction types, De-Fi systems let you invest your money with them, in return for access to a "Smart contract" system that allows you trade automatically with other users of the system in a way to suit yourself.
CISA, the FBI, and the US Treasury Department warned today that the North Korean Lazarus hacking group is targeting organizations in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries with trojanized cryptocurrency applications. The attackers use social engineering to trick employees of cryptocurrency companies into downloading and running malicious Windows and macOS cryptocurrency apps.
Hackers are increasingly targeting DeFi cryptocurrency platforms, with Q1 2022 data showing that more platforms are being targeted than ever before. The new report comes from Chainalysis, which is seeing a massive rise in successful cyberattacks against cryptocurrency platforms, with attacks primarily focusing on DeFi platforms.
You may recall the late cryptocurrency trading hamster, Mr Goxx, who went viral during his brief and colourful life as a rodentine coinhodler. Sadly, given how this particular story ends, US cryptocurrency developer Virgil Griffith has provided another episode in the never-a-dull-moment world of cryptocurrencies.
Cado Security says it has discovered a strain of malware specifically designed to run in AWS Lambda serverless environments and mine cryptocurrency. While the security firm has only seen the malware running in AWS Lambda, it can be made to run in other Linux-flavored environments, Cado Security CTO and co-founder Chris Doman told The Register this week.
"Just a few hours of compromise could result in profits for the perpetrators. That's why we're seeing a continuous fight for cloud CPU resources. It's akin to a real-life capture-the-flag, with the victim's cloud infrastructure the battleground," said Stephen Hilt, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro. Threat actors are increasingly scanning for and exploiting these exposed instances, as well as brute-forcing SecureShell credentials, in order to compromise cloud assets for cryptocurrency mining, the report reveals.
We're told the fraudster accessed some 319 Mailchimp accounts, and exfiltrated "Audience data" from 102 of them. According to Smyth, Mailchimp's security engineers became aware of the break-in on March 26 after a cybercriminal gained accessed to a tool that the Mailchimp customer-facing teams use for customer support and account administration.
A compromised Trezor hardware wallet mailing list was used to send fake data breach notifications to steal cryptocurrency wallets and the assets stored within them. Trezor is a hardware cryptocurrency wallet that allows you to store your crypto assets offline, rather than using cloud-based wallets or wallets stored on your PC that are more vulnerable to theft.
An unidentified threat actor has been observed employing a "Complex and powerful" malware loader with the ultimate objective of deploying cryptocurrency miners on compromised systems and potentially facilitating the theft of Discord tokens. "The evidence found on victim networks appears to indicate that the goal of the attacker was to install cryptocurrency mining software on victim machines," researchers from the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom Software, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.