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MetaMask and Phantom are warning of a new 'Demonic' vulnerability that could expose a crypto wallet's secret recovery phrase, allowing attackers to steal NFTs and cryptocurrency stored within it. Anyone who gains access to a wallet's recovery phrase can import the wallet onto their own devices, allowing them to steal all the cryptocurrency and NFTS stored within it.
In a recent report, Confiant notes that the malicious cryptocurrency apps are identical to the real ones but they come with a backdoor that can steal the users' security phrase for accessing the digital assets. Confiant analysts reversed engineer the apps to figure out how SeaFlower authors had planted the backdoors and found similar code in all of them.
A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that mimics official cryptocurrency wallet websites intending to distribute backdoored apps that drain victims' funds. "As of today, the main current objective of SeaFlower is to modify Web3 wallets with backdoor code that ultimately exfiltrates the seed phrase," Confiant's Taha Karim said in a technical deep-dive of the campaign.
The ERMAC Android banking trojan has released version 2.0, increasing the number of applications targeted from 378 to 467, covering a much wider range of apps to steal account credentials and crypto wallets. The first malware campaign utilizing the new ERMAC 2.0 malware is a fake Bolt Food application targeting the Polish market.
Microsoft is warning of an emerging threat targeting internet-connected cryptocurrency wallets, signaling a departure in the use of digital coins in cyberattacks. "Cryware are information stealers that collect and exfiltrate data directly from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets," Berman Enconado and Laurie Kirk of the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team said in a new report.
A new RedLine malware distribution campaign promotes fake Binance NFT mystery box bots on YouTube to lure people into infecting themselves with the information-stealing malware from GitHub repositories. Binance mystery boxes are sets of random non-fungible token items that people buy, hoping they'll receive a unique or rare item at a bargain price.
A flaw detected in the browser version of the Ever Surf cryptocurrency wallet could have given hackers who exploited it full control over a targeted user's wallet, say threat hunters at Check Point Research. "Despite the fact that Surf uses reliable cryptographic libraries for the key derivation and the encryption, the sensitive data in the web version of Surf doesn't appear to have adequate protection."
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-fixed security flaw in the Rarible non-fungible token marketplace that, if successfully exploited, could have led to account takeover and theft of cryptocurrency assets. Rarible, an NFT marketplace that enables users to create, buy, and sell digital NFT art like photographs, games, and memes, has over 2.1 million active users.
Trezor recently published a warning against a new phishing campaign targeting its users. Figure A. Once in possession of a list of email addresses belonging only to real Trezor customers, the attackers moved to the next step.
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.