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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