A newly discovered campaign pushing malicious open source software packages is designed to steal mnemonic phrases used to recover lost or destroyed crypto wallets, according to a report by ReversingLabs.
Tag: Cryptocurrency
BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency
A report from the firm Recorded Future finds that billions in gains from cryptocurrency heists fund close to half of North Korea’s military budget.
Episode 237: Jacked on the Beanstalk – DeFi’s Security Debt Runs Wide, Deep
The hack of Beanstalk is just the latest major compromise of a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. In this podcast, Jennifer Fernick of NCC Group joins me to talk about why DeFi’s security woes are much bigger than Beanstalk.
Report: Small, Stealthy Groups Behind Worst Cybercrimes
A small group of cybercriminals are responsible for the most damaging cyberattacks–often with the help of state sponsorship. Still, low-level criminal activity on the dark web still poses the most widespread and immediate security threat, with cryptocurrency mining, ransomware and malware all on the rise, a recent report has found.
North Korea’s Lazarus Tied to Cryptojacking Campaign Targeting MacOS
North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus is believed to be behind a recent crypto jacking attack on several banks with an unexpected twist–the use of a Trojan that tricked a company employee into downloading malware, according to Kaspersky Lab.
