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Twitter scammers are jumping on Elon Musk's hosting of Saturday Night Live to push cryptocurrency scams to steal people's Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. For the past year, we have been reporting how scammers have been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars by promoting fake giveaway scams from well-known people or companies, such as Elon Musk, Tesla, and Gemini Exchange.
In a post on Thursday, the researchers picked apart the WeSteal cryptocurrency wallet-pickpocketing tool and a related remote-access trojan called WeControl, saying that it's "Shameless" the way the developers aren't even trying to hide the tools' true intent. Code samples point to WeSteal having evolved from that earlier tool.
Cryptocurrency trading platform Hotbit has shut down all services for at least a week after a cyberattack that down several of its services on Thursday evening. Hotbit assured its roughly 2 million registered users from over 210 countries that their cryptocurrency assets were "Safe and secure."
Unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are being targeted by the Prometei botnet and added to its operators' army of Monero cryptocurrency mining bots. Based on new malware samples recently found by Cybereason during recent incident responses, the botnet has also been updated to exploit Exchange Server vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in March.
As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams.
As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams.
The US government sanctioned this week twenty-eight cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with entities or individuals linked to Russian cyberattacks or election interference. The US government introduced these sanctions in an executive order by President Biden that formally announced that the Russian SVR, and its hacking division, commonly referred to as APT29, The Dukes, or Cozy Bear, were behind the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack.
"Your mobile phone still fully functions with no SIM in it." 2, The network sees the equivalent of your phones unique network identifier that is the equivalent of an Ethernet MAC address.
GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency on GitHub's servers in an automated attack. This week, according to a Dutch security engineer Justin Perdok, attackers have targeted GitHub repositories that use GitHub Actions to mine cryptocurrency.
GitHub Actions is currently being abused by attackers to mine cryptocurrency on GitHub's servers in an automated attack. This week, according to a Dutch security engineer Justin Perdok, attackers have targeted GitHub repositories that use GitHub Actions to mine cryptocurrency.