Category Archives: cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019

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In the second half of 2018, the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry faced a major development: falling prices for cryptocurrencies. The impact was felt across the landscape, with rapid decline in public interest, the activity of the crypto community and traders, and in the related activity of cybercriminals. While this will certainly affect our forecasts for 2019, let’s see how the forecasts we made for this year worked out. Continue reading Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019→

USB threats from malware to miners

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In 2016, researchers from the University of Illinois left 297 unlabelled USB flash drives around the university campus to see what would happen. 98% of the dropped drives were picked up by staff and students, and at least half were plugged into a computer in order to view the content. For a hacker trying to infect a computer network, those are pretty irresistible odds. Continue reading USB threats from malware to miners→

New Mac Crypto Exchange Trojan Unleashed by The Lazarus Hacking Group

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A well-known North Korean hacking entity, calling itself Lazarus Group has continued it’s activity after hacking Sony Films several years ago and they have now unleashed their newest creation – a Lazarus Trojan for Mac OS machines. Kaspersk… Continue reading New Mac Crypto Exchange Trojan Unleashed by The Lazarus Hacking Group→

Operation AppleJeus: Lazarus hits cryptocurrency exchange with fake installer and macOS malware

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While investigating a cryptocurrency exchange attacked by Lazarus, we made an unexpected discovery. The victim had been infected with the help of a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application, which had been recommended to the company over email. Continue reading Operation AppleJeus: Lazarus hits cryptocurrency exchange with fake installer and macOS malware→

Cyber Security Roundup for July 2018

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The importance of assuring the security and testing quality of third-party provided applications is more than evident when you consider an NHS reported data breach of 150,000 patient records this month. The NHS said the breach was caused by a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for July 2018→

In cryptoland, trust can be costly

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While the legal status of cryptocurrencies and laws to regulate them continue to be hammered out, scammers are busy exploiting the digital gold rush. Besides hacking cryptocurrency exchanges, exploiting smart-contract vulnerabilities, and deploying malicious miners, cybercriminals are also resorting to more traditional social-engineering methods that can reap millions of dollars. Continue reading In cryptoland, trust can be costly→

To crypt, or to mine – that is the question

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Way back in 2013 our malware analysts spotted the first malicious samples related to the Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family. That was the starting point for this long-lived Trojan family, which is still functioning to this day. Now the criminals have decided to add a new feature to their creation – a mining capability. Continue reading To crypt, or to mine – that is the question→