Cryptocurrency
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July 9, 2024 08:00
How do cryptocurrency drainer phishing scams work?
In recent months, a surge in cryptodrainer phishing attacks has been observed, targeting cryptocurrency holders with sophisticated schemes aimed at tricking them into divulging their valuable credentials.
October 13, 2020 10:59
Lemon Duck brings cryptocurrency miners back into the spotlight
By Vanja Svajcer, with contributions from Caitlin Huey. * We are used to ransomware attacks and big-game hunting making headlines, but there are still methods adversaries use to monetize their efforts in less intrusive ways. * Cisco Talos recently recorded increased activity
December 18, 2018 11:33
Connecting the dots between recently active cryptominers
Post authored by David Liebenberg and Andrew Williams. Executive Summary Through Cisco Talos' investigation of illicit cryptocurrency mining campaigns in the past year, we began to notice that many of these campaigns shared remarkably similar TTPs, which we at first mistak
August 30, 2018 11:26
Rocke: The Champion of Monero Miners
This post was authored by David Liebenberg. Summary Cryptocurrency miners are becoming an increasingly significant part of the threat landscape. These malicious miners steal CPU cycles from compromised devices to mine cryptocurrencies and bring in income for the threat actor.
July 19, 2018 14:09
Blocking Cryptocurrency Mining Using Cisco Security Products
Cisco Talos is releasing a whitepaper addressing Cryptocurrency mining and all the ways to block it using Cisco Security products. The value of cryptocurrencies has fluctuated wildly, but the value is still high enough to garner a lot of attention, both legitimate and malicious.
January 31, 2018 10:58
Ransom Where? Malicious Cryptocurrency Miners Takeover, Generating Millions
his post was authored by Nick Biasini, Edmund Brumaghin, Warren Mercer and Josh Reynolds with contributions from Azim Khodijbaev and David Liebenberg. Executive Summary The threat landscape is constantly changing; over the last few years malware threat vectors, methods and pay
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