Topic: Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts - page 4. (Read 843901 times)

I vehemently agree with you. Security breach has always been a worrisome issue in the cryptocurrency space. I remember the hack of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, that left the exchange with a loss of over 7,000 btc which is quite substantial and i don't think the exchange would have spent that much if they invested in robust security measures. MPCX really needs to learn from the mistakes of others and secure her platform maximally.

IBM has been in business for a long time and possesses the several IT solutions, I firmly believe that IBM would be making a substantial impact in the MPCX project and that would cut across diverse ramifications for the success of the project.

They've been several number of hacks in recent times that keeps me wondering on the potency of security systems on various exchange platform. I do hope that this partnership with IBM would give MPCX the needed potency to fight every intruder into the digital asset management platform which is still in motion.

This is a good one, the importance of platform security cannot be overemphasized. If every platform has to sign a partnership agreement to secure their platforms from hackers and cyber attacks, it would be awesome. We really need to do something about this security issue.

That's true. I believe partnerships like such are very important for projects to do well. I read that IBM promises to provide MPCX with technology support and consultations to ensure stable performance & exceptional level of platform security.

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One really need to be careful where he visits on the Internet like you said. A friend of mine lost tons of dollars very recently from his blockchain wallet. Hackers penetrated his defences and made away with over $2,000 dollars worth of btc.
2FA didn't help him here.
In my opinion, the site where your fund is kept matters a lot, especially if security measures are not taken into special consideration. Sometimes for those of us that trade on cryptocurrencies, we take unnecessary risk without being certain of their security measures.
I will always go with MPCX Platform with their recent partnership with IBM to ensure that digital assets are well-secured among others.

 If the virus has a dynamic code + auto-update, then the ability to find it is reduced to 0. The only way to protect yourself - download data only from trusted sources.

Trojans can still get to your android device via the Telegram application, because everyone has auto-loading of video, audio and documents in the default settings. My android tablet thus became infected with several different Trojans. Therefore, in the settings, disable autoloading of video, audio, photos, this will partially protect your phone.

One has to be very careful here, it is even very possible to get your phone infected for days without you getting to know.

Ways to know that your mobile device infected.
You will realise that your device might suddenly begin to slow down tremendously, many malicious apps asking you to claim items you won will be popping from nowhere, app will keep crashing unexpectedly. Then funny and very strange sounds will begin to emanate from the said phone.

Here are some ways by which hackers could get your device infected

A) compromised apps: one very common way to get your device infected is downloading an application that was specifically designed for the said purpose (infecting your device), these hackers usually repackage and rebrand these applications, making it look like it is the original, once you download and install on your device, that's it, your device will be infected with whichever malware that was  
set up on it.

How to prevent it
Never download applications from random sources, always use a link from the official website of platforms that own the application. That way, you are guaranteed of downloading the real application.

B) Malvertising: this is another very common method used by hackers to steal personal information of users, it's done by making certain ads pop on the interface of targeted websites while surfing, the moment users mistakingly click on them, his/her device automatically get infected with the virus.

How to prevent it
Always avoid clicking on random ads, alternatively you can download ad blockers to help block off suck ads from popping while surfing the internet.

2FA does the magic for me, just that most times after battling with those malwares I end up losing very vital files, that will go a long way in hurting me to bits. So the best option still remains to stay safe, watch on links you click and the places you go on the internet

Yeah, one comes across these malware's easily on Telegram and other similar platform, just be careful and look well before clicking on any link thrown at you on those platform. Most times they are out to cause harm

These malware's are very common on Telegram Telegram especially, just last week I fell for one and got every file on my phone wiped off, it was a very painful experience for me. I learnt my lesson though, it's just sad I had to learn the hard way. This post has gone a step further in preventing more people from falling.

this is really not a good thing, this forum is meant to offer help and provide solutions to any issues or problems that anyone might be facing in the crypto currency community. now some people have decided to be manipulative and cause more harm by creating more problems and infecting peoples computers with malwares that seem to be a help to download wallet links. thanks for bringing this up. we all need to be more careful and do things with extra care especially now that there are too many bad people.

The number of cases of cyber crime by using malware cannot be tolerated. A solution is needed to handle the case.
Malware is a term used for malicious software designed to damage or carry out unwanted actions on a computer system or what we call viruses.
Computer viruses often spread through e-mail message attachments or instant messages. Therefore, you may not open e-mail attachments unless you know who sent the message or unless you were expecting e-mail attachments. Viruses can masquerade as attachments to funny pictures, greeting cards, or audio and video files. Viruses can hide in pirated software or other files that you download.

Well.
But you can have solution.
For all web account,especially like binance and bitmex, and paypal account, you need to be enable 2FA verify.
So hacker cant access easily to your account.
 

Sometimes I wonder why humans are so malicious? I have taken note of this cited examples above but please do well to update us on any further threats available on this forum.. So we all can stay safe..

Yeah, I think so, too.
So we need to be careful virus.
Virus will catch our chrome cookie, so they can have our account info.
As that account, they attack master's laptop or use it for attacking other site as fake identity.

It's better to keep from attacking bad viruses, because they steal data or something valuable that is on the computer or site that we have. They are very sophisticated.
Various ways that are often used are they come in when we are browsing on the internet, and infect computers for the purpose they want. Therefore computers must be observed frequently to ensure that no viruses enter. Besides using anti-virus that is quite reliable.

I am happy that there are good people, who on seeing this tries to alert people why nowadays, it is very difficult to combat this programs a simple page can damage your computer, thank you, I will check my computer