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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.
ClickLock: the Mac malware that locks up your screen until you type your password
A new macOS stealer, tracked by Group-IB, freezes everything on the screen except a password box. It has already hit around 100 machines in 33 countries.
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.
The Boy Who Topped the Leaderboard: How 'Tylerb' Became a Cooperating Witness
Tyler Buchanan, the Scottish core of Scattered Spider's 2022 phishing spree, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court. His path there ran through a blowtorch, a Barcelona departure gate, and a Telegram scoreboard.