Hackers Reroute ISP Traffic to Steal $83k in Bitcoins
Hackers have managed to reroute raw internet traffic from numerous internet service providers (ISPs) in an attempt to steal bitcoins. Dell SecureWorks says it has identified a total of 19 ISPs affected. Data used by Amazon, DigitalOcean and OVH was compromised in the attack. Each incident lasted just 30 seconds, but the hacker managed to carry out the attack 22 times over the course of four months. The ultimate goal was to seize control of bitcoin miners, organised in mining pools. Stealing up to $9,000 a day. The attacks appear to have been successful. Dell SecureWorks reports that up to....
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The popularity of Bitcoin is attracting all kind of attention. Unfortunately, that also means hackers and internet criminals start targeting Bitcoin users. A phishing campaign spanning over 100 fake domain names is threatening users all over the world. The objective is simple: steal bitcoins and obtain blockchain wallet credentials. It is not the first time Bitcoin users notice copycat websites trying to steal their login credentials. Blockchain.info, one of the traditional web wallet services, has dealt with copycat sites before. Bitstamp, one of the largest European Bitcoin exchanges,....
Confiant, an advertising security agency, has found a cluster of malicious activity involving distributed wallet apps, allowing hackers to steal private seeds and acquire the funds of users via backdoored imposter wallets. The apps are distributed via cloning of legitimate sites, giving the appearance that the user is downloading an original app.
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Hackers are becoming more and more creative when engineering attacks to take advantage of cryptocurrency users. Confiant, a company that is dedicated to examining the quality....
On May 9, an international group of hackers launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on two of the largest financial institutions in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police confirmed that they have received reports from the Bank of China and the Bank of East Asia claiming that the hackers demanded payments in bitcoin. "The two institutions later received emails demanding payments in bitcoins, or there would be another round of attacks," a spokesman said. According to The Standard Hong Kong, the hackers overwhelmed the websites of the two banks with traffic from multiple sources, causing....
Hackers, for the most part, usually target institutional crypto investors and exchanges. But since the adoption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin became more mainstream, these hackers started targeting small individual investors. Related Reading | Hackers Are Now Trying To Steal Crypto Via Malicious NFTs They hack random people through SIM swaps or switching a phone number from […]
A group of hackers have taken advantage of typing mistakes in order to introduce malware to Android phones and Windows-based PCs. Using a technique called typosquatting, which consists of registering domains that are dramatically near to the ones of official brands of organizations, hackers are getting data and private keys from unsuspected users, according to a report issued by Cyble. Typing a Web Domain Incorrectly Might Be Dangerous for Your Wallet Hackers have set up a net of malware-infected domains that take advantage of the typing inaccuracies of users when getting to a determined....