Cryptocurrency

US Returns $154 Million in Bitcoins Stolen by Sony Employee The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack. “According to the government’s Read more…

QNAP Warns Users of Bitcoin Miner Targeting their NAS Devices QNAP warned customers today of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS (network-attached storage) devices with cryptomining malware, urging them to take measures to protect them immediately The cryptominer deployed in this campaign on compromised devices will create a new process named [oom_reaper] Read more…

Twitter Bots Pose as Support Staff to Steal your Cryptocurrency Scammers monitor every tweet containing requests for support on MetaMask, TrustWallet, and other popular crypto wallets, and respond to them with scam links in just seconds. To conduct these targeted phishing attacks, scammers abuse Twitter APIs that allow them to monitor Read more…

Malicious KMSPico Installers Steal Your Cryptocurrency Wallets Threat actors are distributing altered KMSpico installers to infect Windows devices with malware that steals cryptocurrency wallets. This activity has been spotted by researchers at Red Canary, who warn that pirating software to save on licensing costs isn’t worth the risk. KMSPico is Read more…

Discord Malware Campaign Targets Crypto and NFT Communities A new malware campaign on Discord uses the Babadeda crypter to hide malware that targets the crypto, NFT, and DeFi communities. Babadeda is a crypter used to encrypt and obfuscate malicious payloads in what appear to be harmless application installers or programs. Read more…

Victims of $2 Billion BitConnect Fraud to Get back $57 million U.S. law enforcement authorities will start liquidating roughly $57 million worth of cryptocurrency seized from the now-defunct BitConnect crypto exchange to provide some restitution to defrauded investors. The amount pales compared to the $2 billion that BitConnect admins swindled from American Read more…

These are the Cryptomixers Hackers Use to Clean their Ransoms Cryptomixers have always been at the epicenter of cybercrime activity, allowing hackers to “clean” cryptocurrency stolen from victims and making it hard for law enforcement to track them. When threat actors steal cryptocurrency or receive it as a ransom payment, Read more…

US Sanctions Chatex Cryptoexchange Used by Ransomware Gangs The US Treasury Department announced today sanctions against the Chatex cryptocurrency exchange for helping ransomware gangs evade sanctions and facilitating ransom transactions. The Treasury also sanctioned the Russian-linked Suex crypto exchange in September for helping at least eight ransomware groups, with over 40% of Read more…

Crypto Investors Lose $500,000 to Google Ads Pushing Fake Wallets ​Threat actors are using advertisements in Google Search to promote fake cryptocurrency wallets and DEX platforms to steal user’s cryptocurrency. These advertisements promote sites that install fake Phantom and MetaMask wallets used for Solana and Ethereum, and fake decentralized exchange Read more…