According to experts from Positive Technologies, the interest of hackers to crypto-currency wallets and ICO is growing. Because of this, both ordinary users and large corporations suffer equally, which can lose millions of dollars in a matter of minutes.
The report says that the number of attacks on ICO projects is increasing, during which hackers change purse addresses to their own and thus users transfer their money to scammers' accounts. From such attacks suffered ICO, conducted by startups Enigma Catalyst and CoinDash. In the first case, the damage amounted to $ 500,000, while in the second case it was $ 9 million.
Specialists, among other things, drew attention to another growing threat posed by the ICO:
'We can not exclude the activation of a new kind of cybercrime - the creation of knowingly unscrupulous block-start-ups that will justify the loss of funds by hackers.'
Another problem that hackers create is hidden mining. Attackers distribute malicious programs that extract crypto currency on the computer or device of an unsuspecting victim. In addition, hackers hack websites and install malicious code on them, which also secretly extracts the crypto currency on the computer of everyone who visits this site.
'The question of the security of Web resources has never been so acute as in the situation with the blocking projects and ICO, when unauthorized access to the management of the site and content means the loss of millions of dollars in a few minutes. Along with the growth in the number of new ICOs by the end of the year, there is expected to be an increase in attacks on the block-platform, 'noted Positive Technologies analyst Olga Zinenko.
The number of cyberncidents in the public sector is growing: the share of attacks directed at state organizations in the third quarter of 2017 was 13% and for the first time in two years exceeded the share of attacks on financial companies (7%).
Including gathering momentum and exploiting the vulnerabilities of web resources, in particular defeks sites government agencies. In August, 27 web-resources of the state bodies of Malaysia, the government portal of Pakistan and about 40 sites of Venezuela suffered from such attacks.
The July attack on the American bureau of credit histories Equifax led to one of the most large-scale data leaks, as a result of which cybercriminals received personal information from 145.5 million citizens.
Also continues to improve software, attacking ATMs and POS-terminals. In July, widespread vending machines Avanti Markets were attacked in the US: attackers were able to access customer data in some of them.
Earlier experts of the company Group-IB already noticed that hackers began to switch their attention from banks to the crypto industry, as here a successful attack brings significantly more money, and most importantly, it is easier to withdraw them into cash.
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