While cybercriminals pose a constant danger to digital assets’ security, individuals with similar computer skills but whose motives are benevolent explained to the holders of cryptocurrencies what they can do to protect oneself against cyber threats’ attacks.
On July 26, criminals employed a social engineering attack to make the users of cryptocurrencies install fake ‘conferencing software’ to steal their cryptocurrencies. Employers equally had fake recruitment services impersonating the human resource departments of genuine cryptocurrencies firms to offer phantom positions in their companies, so as to dupe applicants into providing their wallet details where they were then stripped of their money.
Ethical hackers Kirill Firsov and Marwan Hachem explained more about an operation they had into the Meetly fake conferencing application. gg and detailed what users can do to prevent themselves from losing their crypto.
Uncovering software used by hackers
Hachem, the COO of FearsOff — the cybersecurity company — said that on July 26, they came to the scene upon a panic button being pushed, by a C-suite executive of a crypto firm. None of the cybersecurity professionals stated that while they attempted to investigate the problem, they discovered how hackers worked.
Firsov, the founder and CEO of the cybersecurity firm known as FearsOff said that they had downloaded the fake software, and they had run it into an environment to see how it operated. According to the security professional, it pointed out that once the user installs the app, the data belonging to the user is transferred to the villains. He explained:
“Once the application starts, it simply transfers all the important information about the computer, all the sensitive data, all the crypto wallets, to an outside server.”
According to Firsov, these hackers are interested in whatever information that relates to crypto wallets and at the moment, they are searching for passwords, and any other code or key associated with wallets. “Passwords are stored in not only safe CDEs but also in plain text and nodes, Firsov added.
