{"id":9104,"date":"2017-09-06T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/news-2877\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T05:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:45:02","slug":"news-2877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/news-2877\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Are Targeting Naive Bitcoin Owners With Terribly Simple Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59aef9049b691959cf0d58a3\/lede\/1504642317876-shutterstock_631076852.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> With <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/topic\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> nearing a valuation of $4,500 scammers are trying all kinds of tricks to steal people&#8217;s valuable cryptocurrencies, including just asking people to give them away.<\/p>\n<p> The cybersecurity research group MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new simple scam: an app that promises naive Bitcoin-owners to double their cryptocurrency balance if they provide their Bitcoin wallet&#8217;s private key. Of course, the private key is all one needs to take control of that wallet and steal the bitcoins. <\/p>\n<p> <b> Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/d38mqk\/how-to-build-an-ethereum-mining-rig-computer\"><b> How to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the rudimentary, almost offensive nature of this scam, &#8220;no doubt, some people will still far for it,&#8221; the researcher behind MalwareHunterTeam&#8217;s Twitter account told Motherboard in a direct message. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"bB5sRNt\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> It&#8217;s impossible to know how many people\u2014if any\u2014have fallen for this, but given how popular Bitcoin has become and how tempting this might sound for people hoping to make a quick cryptobuck, we can&#8217;t rule out that no one will fall for it. For now, most antivirus programs don&#8217;t seem to detect this app as malicious, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/en\/file\/0f5c7230d2684dbca9161b8c52d03d058691676ea4b05e0d2c12e4bdba5495c4\/analysis\/1504629890\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Virus Total<\/a>, an online malware repository that tests malicious files with several antivirus engines. In any case, according to MalwareHunterTeam, the app actually doesn&#8217;t do anything other than ask for the keys. It doesn&#8217;t infect the target with a virus nor attempts any other malicious attack.<\/p>\n<p> If you come across this malware scam, do not give up your private key. There&#8217;s a reason it&#8217;s called private. <\/p>\n<p> <b> <i> Get six of our favorite Motherboard stories every day <\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.club\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b> <i> by signing up for our newsletter<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xwwjvw\/scammers-are-targeting-naive-bitcoin-owners-with-terribly-simple-trick\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59aef9049b691959cf0d58a3\/lede\/1504642317876-shutterstock_631076852.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PSA: don\u2019t give anyone your Bitcoin private key. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[10490,4500,6272,3919,10573,13560,3764,3985,10512],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-bitcoin","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-infosec","tag-internet-insecurity","tag-malware","tag-scam","tag-scammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}