cryptocurrencies

Malicious versions of the free-to-download game Super Mario 3: Mario Forever plant a miner and a stealer on gamers’ machines.

Crypto Olympics, or the full gamut of blockchain attacks: the biggest, most sophisticated, most audacious cryptocurrency heists of all time.

We explain how the advanced malware DoubleFinger downloads GreetingGhoul, a stealer that preys on cryptocurrency wallets.

Crypto mixers, nested exchanges, cash-out and other crypto-laundering methods used by ransomware operators.

Full review of a fake cryptowallet incident. It looks and feels like a Trezor wallet, but puts all your crypto-investments into the hands of criminals.

Hardware crypto wallets are effective at protecting your cryptocurrency, but they can still be stolen from. Let’s address the risks their owners need to be protected from.

How to reliably protect your cryptocurrency given the numerous fraud schemes and lack of protection through government regulation.

Scammers are pretending to offer users tens of thousands of dollars, supposedly accumulated in an account on an “automated cloud-mining platform”.

In the final part of the series, we take a look at cryptocurrency politics, the future, and the metaverse.

In 2022, cryptocurrency prices fell sharply, but malicious miners are more active than ever.

Hundreds of millions of dollars stolen: the five biggest heists in cryptocurrency history.

On this edition of the Kaspersky podcast, we discuss NFTs with Ivan Kwiatkowski in terms of what they are and if they are a scam.

In this second part of the series, we’re going to dive deep into Ethereum and its novelties: smart-contracts, DAOs and NFTs.

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about crypto on the whole, and NFTs in particular, and also why I’m not a fan of such tech, to say the least.

We review a major cryptocurrency theft using spyware inside a PDF.

How scammers swindle users out of cryptocurrency through a fake Nvidia giveaway supposedly worth 50,000 BTC.

How scammers lure YouTube users to a fake website where a purported bug lets them exchange Bitcoin at an excellent rate.

We explain how scammers steal cryptowallets through phishing.

The Lazarus group continues to prey on cryptocurrency: cybercriminals distribute DeFi wallets with built-in backdoor.

What is a seed phrase, how scammers use it to steal cryptowallets, and how to protect your MetaMask account.

How fake sellers are stealing bitcoins from buyers of sought-after mining equipment.