Kaspersky responded in a statement, maintaining its independence and claiming that the warning is politically motivated. BSI fears that Kaspersky could be coerced by the Russian government to hack IT systems abroad - or that agents could be using the software to launch cyberattacks without Kaspersky’s knowledge. On March 15, 2020, the BSI German cyber security agency issued a hacking warning against Kaspersky, a Russian antivirus software. MP4 Repair: How to Fix Corrupted Video Files in 2019.Best Choice Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery.How to Create a Strong Password in 2023: Secure Password Generator & 6 Tips for Strong Passwords.

How to Securely Store Passwords in 2023: Best Secure Password Storage.Best Password Manager for Small Business.How to Access the Deep Web and the Dark Net.Online Storage or Online Backup: What's The Difference?.Time Machine vs Arq vs Duplicati vs Cloudberry Backup.'A mistake likely made by all victims of this malware was to download and run Tor Browser from a third party resource,' Kamluk added.Īnd despite being 'fundamentally simple,' the attack 'harbors more danger than would seem,' according to Kamluk. This isn't only because of the theft involved, but because the malware is passive and hard to detect via heuristics, he explained. One way to avoid this coin-stealing campaign is to download installers from the official Tor Project, which are digitally signed and free of malware. FTX cryptovillain Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials.Got Conti? Here's the ransomware cure to avoid paying up.Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies.Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine.'There may be other campaigns, abusing different software and using other means of malware delivery as well as other types of wallets.'

'We believe that the actual theft is bigger because this research is focused on Tor Browser abuse,' Kamluk said. The bulk of this amount ($381,237) was in Bitcoin, followed by Litecoin ($10,544), Ethereum ($4,853) and Dogecoin ($517). So to calculate the total losses, the threat hunters collected 'hundreds' of the malware samples, unpacked them from Enigma, extracted the crypto-wallet replacement addresses and then calculated the total inputs to these wallets.īased on this, the security shop estimates the crooks stole at least $400,000. Additionally, the malware is protected with the Enigma packer v4.0, which makes analysis more complicated.

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