500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack

All of this goes to show the financial sector remains insecure despite all of the recently issued warnings. Criminals often use malware to attack financial institutions around the world. In most cases, these efforts are more than successful, creating a strain on the financial ecosystem. Things are getting out of hand in Poland, though, as the financial regulator allegedly infected various banks with malware. A rather disturbing development seemingly orchestrated by foreign hackers. It is not often a financial regulator infects banks with malware. It appears the Polish financial regulator....

New details have emerged regarding the illicit mining of roughly half a billion dogecoins in the winter and early spring of 2014, which mainly targeted unsuspecting homeowners and may have affected thousands of customers of Taiwan-based manufacturer Synology. Earlier this week it came to light that an as-yet unidentified hacker or hackers gained administrator access to network attached storage (NAS) servers sold by Synology. This resulted in the creation of roughly 500 million dogecoins over a several month-long period, with activity peaking in February. The malware attempt first came to....

It is not the first time UK hospitals are targeted by cyber criminals. Four different UK hospitals have been hit by a large-scale malware attack. Several thousands of files across these London hospitals are threatened by this malicious software. Barts, the largest NHS trust in England, is working on addressing the situation. Interestingly enough, it does not appear ransomware is used for this attack Moreover, there is no Bitcoin demand by the cyber criminals either. The attack against Barts health trust is rather disconcerting, as it is a major cyber attack against the UK hospital sector.....

While cryptocurrency mining malware has generally been targeted at PCs running the Windows OS, owners of Linux-based machines are now experiencing a taste of malware misery too. Computer security company Symantec has identified a new version of an old worm that has been going after Linux-based routers and set-top boxes for some time. The Darlloz worm, as it is called, has evolved to attack Linux desktops and to press them into service as unwilling cryptocurrency miners, IDG News Service reports. Darlloz is a rather unusual piece of malware, as it was originally developed to wreak havoc on....

A hacker group is trying to leverage the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine as it distributes malware that is capable of targeting bitcoin wallets. A report by Bitdefender Labs, a cybersecurity firm that focuses on the digital currency market, highlights how an alleged hacker group disguised one form of malware as another. According to the report, the perpetrators distributed software that they described as capable of disrupting the digital activities of Western governments fighting against Russia. In reality, the program secretly installs a malware package called Kelihos. This....