Collaborate Disseminate
Willie Sutton, the criminal who became legendary for stealing from banks during a forty year career, was once asked, “Why do you keep robbing banks?”
His answer? “Because that’s where the money is.”
However, today there’s a better target for robb… Continue reading Trezor crypto wallets under attack in SMS phishing campaign
There’s monkey business involving cryptocurrency thieves and MailChimp, a stalker exploits his ex-partner’s CCTV cameras, and what are the naughty words Amazon doesn’t want its staff using?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition o… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #269: Trezor Deep Throat, a CCTV stalker, and Amazon’s list of banned words
Owners of physical Trezor cryptocurrency wallets should be on their guard after an email was sent out by thieves attempting to dupe them into downloading new software to their devices. Continue reading Trezor wallets hacked? Don’t be duped by phishing attack email
Phillipe Christodoulou got ripped off to the tune of over a million dollars: An iPhone app stole 17.1 bitcoins.
The post Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Continue reading Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL
The details of Ledger hardware wallet customers provide a golden opportunity for criminals to scam the unwary.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hacker publishes stolen email and mailing addresses of 270,000 Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users
A piece of wiper malware is making the rounds erasing people’s important files, with its authors demanding a modest ransom to restore the data. However, the ransomware campaign is a lie, and the operators have no intention of decrypting the data…. Continue reading Beware of GermanWiper – the ransomware that is not ransomware
Are you using Komodo’s Agama Wallet to store your KMD and BTC cryptocurrencies?
Were your funds also unauthorisedly transferred overnight to a new address?
If yes, don’t worry, it’s probably safe, and if you are lucky, you will get your funds back.
… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Firm Itself Hacked Its Customers to Protect Their Funds From Hackers
A mystery payload sneaked into a hugely popular JavaScript library was part of a plot to ransack Bitcoins from BitPay’s Copay mobile cryptocoin wallet, it has been alleged. Continue reading JavaScript library used for sneak attack on Copay Bitcoin wallet
A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps.
… Continue reading Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins
Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D team at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, who previously demonstrated various methods to steal data from an air-gapped computer, has now published new research named “BeatCoin.”
BeatCoin is not a new hacking techn… Continue reading How to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys (Cold Storage) from Air-Gapped PCs