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Threats target financial institutions, fintech, and cryptocurrencies

May 23, 2019 admin 0 Comments APTs, Banking apps, banking trojans, banks, bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptowallets, emotet, exploit kits, financial institutions, financials, Fintech, information stealers, Infrastructure, malware, vital, vital infrastructure

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Losing trust in financial institutions can have a disrupting effect on society. And malware authors love to target these direct sources of money. How can we protect them?

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 92

May 14, 2019 admin Airbnb, ATMs, banking, bitcoin, news, podcast, scams, Threats

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 08:41:38 +0000

Dave and Jeff take on the Airbnb bedroom filming story, ATMs helping stop Bitcoin scams, and more.

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Vital infrastructure: Threats target financial institutions, fintech, and cryptocurrencies

May 10, 2019 admin APTs, Banking apps, banking trojans, banks, bitcoin, Business, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptowallets, emotet, exploit kits, financial institutions, financials, Fintech, information stealers, Infrastructure, malware, Security world, vital

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Losing trust in financial institutions can have a disrupting effect on society. And malware authors love to target these direct sources of money. How can we protect them?

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Electrum Bitcoin wallets under siege

April 16, 2019 admin bitcoin, bitcoins, Botnet, cybercrime, ddos, Electrum, exploit kit, Exploits, RIG, RIG EK, Social engineering, vulnerabilities, wallet

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Threat actors are relentlessly phishing and attacking Electrum Bitcoin wallet users, racking up millions of dollars.

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A week in security (February 4 – 8)

February 11, 2019 admin Amazon, apple, AT&T, Australia, bitcoin, bounty hunters, cryptocurrency, cryptography, cybersecurity, Do Not Track, ebooks, Facebook, google, instagram, internet, jeff bezos, John wick, kindle, messenger, safari, secure messaging, Security world, Sprint, T-Mobile, URLs, Week in security, WhatsApp, zcash, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:05:33 +0000

A roundup of security news from February 4 – 8, including Facebook’s secure messaging integration, Google’s changes to URLs, a scam involving the Kindle store and John Wick, and more.

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Tags: amazon Apple AT&T Australia bitcoin bounty hunters cryptocurrency cryptography cybersecurity Do Not Track ebooks facebook Google Instagram internet Jeff Bezos John wick kindle messenger safari secure messaging Sprint T-Mobile URLs whatsapp Zcash zero day

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Crazy Razy, bitcoin thief

January 24, 2019 admin bitcoin, Browsers, chrome, cryptocurrencies, extensions, Firefox, news, plugins, Razy, Threats, trojans

Credit to Author: Pavel Shoshin| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:07:51 +0000

The Razy Trojan secretly installs malicious extensions for Chrome and Firefox to serve phishing links and steal cryptocurrency.

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Luas data ransom: the hacker who cried wolf?

January 11, 2019 admin bitcoin, cybercrime, data breach, hacked, hacking, haveibeenpwned, luas, ransom, ransomware

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Irish tram firm Luas were recently compromised and told to pay 1 Bitcoin, or risk user data being fired into the void. The deadline for paying the ransom has now passed: So what happens next? And is anyone out there really at risk?

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Tags: bitcoin data breach hacked hacking haveibeenpwned luas ransom ransomware

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How to hack a hardware cryptocurrency wallet

January 10, 2019 admin 35c3, bitcoin, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, cryptocurrency, cryptowallet, hardware wallets, Technology, Threats

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:56:02 +0000

Security researchers found several ways to compromise hardware cryptocurrency wallets made by Ledger and Trezor.

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Christmas tech scams roundup

December 20, 2018 admin adverts, bitcoin, cybercrime, email, Facebook, hitman, phish, privacy, SCAM, tech scams, tech support scammers, tech support scams

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:30:14 +0000

What’s under the Christmas tree? It’s worse than lumps of coal, it’s a not very festive assortment of tricks and scams designed to give you a festive season hangover.

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Tags: adverts bitcoin email facebook hitman phish scam tech scams tech support scammers tech support scams

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Sophisticated Ransomware : “Katyusha”

December 17, 2018 admin bitcoin, Cyber crime, Double pulsar, EternalBlue, Hacker, katyusha, malware, Mimikatz, Password, phishing, ransomware, Security, Security patch, spam, squiblydoo, Trojan, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:59:58 +0000

For several months, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing an increase in ransomware, we have found one more interesting ransomware which encrypts files and adds extension “.katyusha” and demands for an amount of 0.5 btc within three days and threatens to release the data to public download if the ransom is not…

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