- Cyberark finds the website that promotes pirate software that distributes malware
- One of the malware variants was a cryptojker that runs more than 700,000 wallets
- One of the wallets had 600 sun
Cybersecurity researchers have recently discovered Massjacker, a new variant of malware with the aim of stealing cryptocurrencies replacing cryptocurrency addresses in people’s clipboard.
Cybark’s team said recently found a website: Pesktop[dot]com, who claims to offer all kinds of pirated software, but in reality, it is distributing different versions of malware, including Massjacker.
It was not said how malware was posing, but when the victims install Massjacker, it works in the background, monitoring the computer clipboard. When a person copy a cryptocurrency address, he will take note and replace it with an address that belongs to the attacker. In that way, when the victim hits the direction, he is hitting a different one from the one they copied, and is sending money to the attackers instead of those who would like to send it.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
The cryptocurrency addresses are impossible to memorize by memory, since they are a chain of more than 20 seemingly random characters, so most people would keep them stored somewhere, and simply copy and paste when they would like to send funds. Cybercriminals see this as an opportunity to steal money, and with regard to Massjacker, it seems to be working.
Cyberark says that Massjacker manages more than 770,000 unique encryption directions. While most of them were empty, 423 had $ 95,300 in them, at the time the report had been written. “Add the money that was previously carried out in those wallets but that had already been transferred brought the total to around $ 336,700,” the researchers concluded.
However, that does not mean that all that money comes from Massjacker. In fact, Cyberark believes that the opposite could be true, and that most of the funds come from “other malicious activities.” That said, the cryptocurrency worth approximately $ 87,000 (600 sun) was sitting in a single wallet that had 350 transactions.
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