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Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:32:07 +0000
If someone offers cryptocurrency for nothing, remember the only free cheese is in a mousetrap. Here’s what’s really going on.
Read MoreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:25:26 +0000
KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader whose friend recently received a remarkably customized extortion letter via snail mail that threatened to tell the recipient’s wife about his supposed extramarital affairs unless he paid $3,600 in bitcoin. The friend said he had nothing to hide and suspects this is part of a random but well-crafted campaign to prey on men who may have a guilty conscience.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:11:16 +0000
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| We take a look at a prolific campaign that is focused on the distribution of coin miners via drive-by download attacks. We started to notice larger-than-usual payloads from the RIG exploit kit around November 2017, a trend that has continued more recently via a campaign dubbed Ngay. Categories: Tags: bitcoinBytecoincryptocurrencycryptominerscryptominingdrive-by downloadsDrive-by miningElectroneumexploit kitsmalvertisingmoneroNgayRIG EK |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:55:14 +0000
Critics of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin have long argued that the core utility of these payment systems lies in facilitating illicit commerce, such as buying drugs or stolen credit cards and identities. But recent spikes in the price of Bitcoin — and the fees associated with moving funds into and out of it — have conspired to make Bitcoin a less useful and desirable payment method for many crooks engaged in these activities.
Read MoreCredit to Author: pavelnikiforov| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:00:39 +0000
What miners and Web miners are, why you need to protect yourself, and how Kaspersky Lab products can assist
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:50:40 +0000
Cryptominers running in a browser without an organization’s consent are parasitic and should be considered malware<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=44653&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/LspUwUi25_k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:53:19 +0000
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| The digital world of Bitcoin is ablaze with profit, speculation, and potential riches for all – unfortunately, scammers are in on the action and will stop at nothing to relieve the unwary of their digital fortunes. From the oldest tricks in the book to all new types of scams, it seems everyone is turning their attention to Bitcoin. What are the threats, and what can you do about it to stay safe? Categories: Tags: bitcoinBitCoin Scambtccoincryptocurrencyfakefaucetminerminersminingphishphishingscamsupport scammer |
The post There’s a hole in my bucket: Bitcoin scams aim to exploit volatile market appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).
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