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Fake CCleaner site turns Chrome into a spying and password-theft tool
Criminals built a convincing copycat download page for one of the world's most-downloaded PC tools, then used it to silently hijack Google Chrome and steal passwords, bank details, and screenshots.
Fake 'Solidity Pro' VS Code Extensions Caught Emptying Crypto Wallets
Two look-alike extensions posed as tools for Ethereum developers, then quietly installed wallet and credential stealers on the machines that trusted them.
Fake invoices and swapped wallet addresses: inside two 2026 attack chains
Gen's latest threat report tracks criminals who hijacked real business email threads to spread banking malware, and a separate crew quietly rewriting crypto wallet addresses as victims copied them.
A 12-year-old flaw in a popular crypto library drained $5.7 million from wallets
Security firm Coinspect traced a wave of wallet thefts to a weak random number generator inside CryptoJS, a JavaScript library used by five cryptocurrency wallet apps to create recovery phrases.
Fake COLDCARD 'Security Audit' Emails Push Remote Access Tool After $88M Bitcoin Theft
A phishing campaign impersonates the hardware wallet maker, tricks owners into installing ScreenConnect, and hands attackers full control of the victim's PC.
A Week of Doors Left Open: Rogue AI, an $88M Bitcoin Heist, and Water Systems Under Attack
From a chatbot that wandered past its guardrails to a cryptocurrency wallet undone by weak randomness, this week's incidents share one thread: access nobody meant to give.
Interpol's Global Payment Network Stopped a $6.6 Million Fraud Transfer. Here's How It Works.
A worldwide system linking police forces and banks in 196 countries is getting faster at freezing stolen money before criminals can move it across borders.
Amazon Traces September npm Hijack of Debug and Chalk to North Korean Hackers
What looked like a wallet-draining crypto heist ten months ago now points to Pyongyang, according to fresh analysis from Amazon.
Southeast Asia's Fraud Factories Have Gone Global
A UN report puts the cost of the region's industrialised cyber-fraud industry at up to $114 billion in 2025. Corruption, cryptocurrency and AI have made it almost impossible to shut down.
Apple sued after fake Sparrow Wallet app on App Store drains $1.8M in Bitcoin
Three users say a counterfeit crypto wallet, promoted in App Store collections, tricked them into handing over the secret recovery phrases that guard their coins.
Fake Solana and TradingView Sites Build Malware Inside Your Browser
A malvertising operation active since late 2024 uses JavaScript to assemble info-stealing malware in browser memory, dodging network-based detection and hitting retail traders across 12 countries.
North Korean Hackers Run Fake Zoom and Teams Sites to Rob Crypto Wallets
BlueNoroff's phishing kit screens visitors' crypto wallets before deciding who gets the malware, researchers say.
How a String of Morse Code Tricked an AI Into Wiring Real Money
A crypto heist nobody heard much about previews a dangerous new kind of attack that needs no stolen passwords, no malware, and no hacked firewall.
North Korean Job-Interview Scam Hides Malware Inside Flag Images
Fake coding tests planted a four-stage stealer on developers' machines, with the payload smuggled inside SVG picture files.
ClickLock Stealer Tricks Mac Users Into Handing Over Their Own Passwords
A newly discovered piece of Mac malware skips the usual hacking tricks and simply persuades victims to run it themselves, then locks the screen until they surrender their passwords.