Hackers Are Scanning Computers Worldwide For Opened Upward Bitcoin As Well As Ethereum Wallets...

Security researcher Didier Stevens setup a trap, or inwards digital safety price - a "honeypot".  Think of it equally digital sting operation, where individual puts a server online opened upwardly to laid on - but aught of value is actually there, it's solely at that topographic point to tape the attacks equally they happen.

The logs of these honeypots revealed hackers running scrips aimed at detecting files that comprise cryptocurrency wallets.

The filenames included:

wallet - Copy.dat
wallet.dat
wallet.dat.1
wallet.dat.zip
wallet.tar
wallet.tar.gz
wallet.zip
wallet_backup.dat
wallet_backup.dat.1
wallet_backup.dat.zip
wallet_backup.zip

Didier said he's seen activity similar this since 2013 - but never at such high volume.

The same is straightaway happening to Ethereum since it's taken a rigid concur equally the #2 cryptocurrency. Threat hunter Dimitrios Slamaris gear upwardly a honeypot too faked having simply about Ethereum inwards his wallet.

The hacker checked what software he was running, how much ethereum he had inwards the wallet, thence issued a eth_sendTransaction ascendancy inwards an get to pocket gas from the previously received account.

It appears the hacker has had simply about modest success too, "The goal describe of piece of job organisation human relationship has well-nigh 8 Ethers..." Dimitrios tweeted on November 8th.

Since then, there's been a few to a greater extent than transactions coming in, equally good equally a transfer going out to the ShapeShift exchange.

A expect at the wallet activity of the hacker.

The lessons to possess got from this are: Your wallet shouldn't survive named "wallet", too fifty-fifty better, your wallet shouldn't survive on a calculator that's online, or at the least, behind a rigid firewall.

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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk