Topic: Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts - page 33. (Read 837097 times)

Thank You Very much, its really informative for me. This is like so pointless. Who want to steal crypto money, then this is big target for malware developers.

i just scanned my slow pc with malwarebytes and got like 902 threats now its fresh and light

They're just taking opportunities given them by M$ and others (WannaCry etc...)

This is really good advice.

I personally use Comodo (NSA recommended) + Malwarebytes + Spybot
I would suggest you have a cold storage and hot storage. A cold storage is essentially an offline wallet (Ledger Nano or Trezor) and hot storage are wallets you use for liquidity (only the amount you are willing to lose). If you are storing your wallets on a machine you watch porn/torrent with..scan as often as possible.

Anti Virus + Malwarebytes + Spybot search and destroy.

Encrypted Thumbdrive with all passwords stored offline

Ledger Nano S for Bitcoin and some others

Wallet.dat files saved and backed up on encrypted drive.

Most wallets with coins kept in offline PC, except staking wallets but I ensure I back up those every 3 days with and have a very strong password and only unlocked for staking.


As others have said never click on .exe files that you do not know the source of and don't trust any link sent from an email even if sent from a friend or family.  

Will this thread be updated for every new malware found? 

I've had a bad experience about it, even my bitcointalk account was ever taken over, I often get login notifications on my altcoin storage, I think it would be safer to use 2-step verification.

I believe that Avast is highly overrated among alternative anti-viruses for a personal computer, even those antiviruses that are in the top do not today unfortunately give complete safety.

I thought Avast Anti Virus has the capability of blocking this malware? Until someone recommended to use malwarebytes.com. Has anyone tried this? As I haven't tried it yet.

Yea, be carefull what are you opening. I had problem once hardly i fixed it. This malware infections are very dangerous. Every miner should know that.

Unfortunately, even a good antivirus installed on the computer at the moment is not the maximum protection, since the money in the crypto currency is very large and it is practically impossible to track or punish the fraudster now that they are developing very serious viruses.

Good antivirus is a basis, without him I had many attempts on my computer.

yes i have personal experience with the above mention,

i am a programmer and works of the casuals as creating stubs with varies on service of the payloads

and sometimes to put the keylogger function as the stubs to deliver for public as having with less on potentials of exchange for the good money.

but still i need to sees work by the other side of computer as referring use of unit with chance of qualification.

steam is ok but prefers the bitcoin,

facebook is fine as likes of more if those with the yahoogroup milist with the active channel.

so if interested to work with the creation of service on GUI payloads with the deliverance,
please prepare with as least of $400 for exchange with the good work as contains with the keylogger

the thirst of wills to run the BObot with the real plan.

greeting from kerala,

Rago Milkesh
The Smuggler

It would be very helpful to know which coins have malware. 

This is really educational... Be cautious with everything. At all times be cautious with what kind of files you download and run into your machine. Both may include untraceable and nondetectable malware.

There's different types of malwares out there. some are responsible for executable program attack on windows. Not just windows. Hackers uses malwares also to intrude into other operating systems such as android/linux and macintosh/apple. And now hackers are just human after all they can evaluate, and fortify their malwares using encryption to cloak-up its intentions and codes.

Types of Malware:
1. Financial Malware - who attacks on most of the systems that are connected in financial firm/institution these malwares can be found commonly on banks, large businesses, online shops.
2. Ransom Malwares - it crawls into your system unnoticed and identify your very important documents location and lock them down. you cannot access your files unless you will pay the ransom in bitcoin indicated by the Ransomware.
3. Advertisement Malware - it focuses to intrude into your system to feed its resources and to make it a fullblown advertisement PC.. you will notice that because both your desktop and browsers has alot of appearance of unwanted advertisement and programs that is uncommon for you to see.
4. Phishing Malware - it is the same as Financial malware though this one is cannot be noticed quickly if you are too fast just looking at the logo or message on the screen without lookin at the actual URL in the address bar of your browser. It clones legit websites that you commonly use like Yahoo, bank website and so on.. just to deceive you and to let you login your username and password. once you are done login with that fake website then your inputted login and password will be sent into the hacker who made the Phishing site. not just username it can also get your Credit Card details if you are not careful. Even paypal has a phishing site made by hackers and also they send fake email messages that your account is suspended just to let you login in hurry.
5. Rootkit - it is part of the malwares and it is the main. If you are successful eliminating all 1 to 4 within your anti-virus but not this one still your computer not safe because this rootkits is the platform who initiate connection between the hacker and your computer to deploy malwares.


Hope this information will be enough to explain to you.. Have a nice day ^^.

everywhere I set up two-factor authentication. all passwords on a flash drive and on paper. no remote access software. cleaning the cookies after using the exchange.
I thought that this was enough ....
read the topic and realized that this little ((

3 ETH is not much, I'll tell you honestly. There are viruses now that wait when you have on your wallet the amount of money they need, and only then they steal it. Already more than once faced with such and such information.

Hi I run the lastest verion of linux mint and I have recently started to store some keys (encrypted with password) of various cryptos with small amount of funds on them on my linux system that I also surf with. Eventually those keys will just be stored on paper and offline system but for now I have them on my online system.

What can I do to protect myself from linux malware getting copies of my keys (and possibly bruteforcing the password) or other nasty tricks they can pull of.

I am thinking of getting an usb stick with a live linux enviroment. That way every time I boot from it's a blanc copy.

So as long as I downloaded the iso from a trusted source and check the hashes I should be safe.

I already boot in to tails OS once in a while but they the Electrum wallet build in and I want wallets for more then just bitcoin.

So any tips and tricks in keeping my keys safe? Should I start running additional software on my linux system next to iptables firewall?

I am pretty new to linux too so I don't know how vulnerable my system is from outside interference.  I have my system set to install security updates. But imagine somebody getting acces to a popular linux distory and infecting and pushing out an update. That would be a disaster.

I like to boot .iso files from my usb drive with easy2boot on it, and hopefully there will be a system where easy2boot can calculate the hash of the .iso file so I can always check that hash vs what I have written down on a piece of paper before I load the .iso

The chain of safety in my eyes goes like this.

paper wallet/offline storage > offline linux system > trusted hardware wallet > linux live CD enviroment > online linux system. 

Feel free to correct me. Being your own bank is not easy! This new digital gold is every hackers dream. You can go to jail for 10 years and dream about that one private key that you have in memory and come out of jail a billionare (if the chain still exist and your coin still has value). 

Yes, I agree you need to be careful,I have a friend 3 of ether were stolen during the transfer.