Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Several users of the Trust Wallet Chrome extension report having their cryptocurrency wallets drained after installing a compromised extension update released on December 24, prompting an urgent response from the company and warnings to affected users. Simultaneously, BleepingComputer observed a phishing domain launched by hackers. [...]

Several users of the Trust Wallet Chrome extension report having their cryptocurrency wallets drained after installing a compromised extension update released on December 24, prompting an urgent response from the company and warnings to affected users. Simultaneously, BleepingComputer observed a phishing domain launched by hackers. [...]

Value of Bitcoin Rocketed Following Fake Post Claiming Spot Bitcoin ETFs ApprovedThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it is probing the "compromise" of its X - formerly known as Twitter - social media accounts after a hacker broadcast a fake post claiming the agency had approved spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which sent the value of bitcoin rocketing.

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam

A hacking group tracked as 'Pink Drainer' is impersonating journalists in phishing attacks to compromise Discord and Twitter accounts for cryptocurrency-stealing attacks. [...]

Gamers looking for cheats on YouTube are being targeted with links to malicious password-protected archive files designed to install the RedLine Stealer malware and crypto miners on compromised machines

Hackers reportedly stole over $257,000 in Ethereum and thirty-two NFTs after the Yuga Lab's Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside Metaverse Discord servers were compromised to post a phishing scam. [...]

The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance (DeFi) wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems