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6 stories taggedcryptocurrency theft.
Fake Job Interviews Are Draining Bank Accounts. Here Is How the Scam Works.
Criminals posing as recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed are tricking jobseekers into downloading malware disguised as interview software. One person lost £18,000 in cryptocurrency overnight.
WordlistLoader Hides Malware Inside Plain English Word Lists
A new delivery tool for a fast-growing password thief disguises harmful code as ordinary text, making it harder for security software to spot the infection before it takes hold.
A Coldcard Firmware Bug From 2021 May Have Cost Bitcoin Holders $70 Million
Researchers say a four-year-old flaw in a popular hardware wallet let one attacker sweep nearly 1,200 addresses in under an hour.
Adform ad platform hijacked to swap crypto wallet addresses on visitor clipboards
A tampered script served through the Danish ad-tech firm's network quietly replaced Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses with attacker-controlled ones, redirecting payments from anyone who copied a wallet on an affected site.
Ostium loses $23.75 million after attackers feed the platform fake prices
The decentralised trading platform paused all activity within an hour, but not before a manipulated price feed drained its liquidity vault.
Silent Swap: Unsigned Installers Drop Fake Chromium Extensions That Hijack Crypto Transactions
McAfee Labs documents a clipper campaign using .NET and Golang loaders to sideload a malicious browser extension that rewrites wallet addresses at send time.