Trojans

The post Former Huobi Employees Implant Trojans in Wallets, Face 3Y Imprisonment appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Chinese police revealed that four former Huobi employees implanted Trojans in wallets and stole user mnemonics and private keys. Later they destroyed the server and database and agreed to use these private keys to illegally obtain users’ virtual currency two years later. They obtained more than 27,000 mnemonics and more than 10,000 private keys and successfully converted more than 19,000 digital wallet…

Hackers continue to inject malware through various means into computer systems of unwary individuals and organizations to mine cryptocurrencies. It seems a cryptocurrency mining malware has infected thousands of enterprise systems, based on the discovery of malware analysts from cloud security company Red Canary. The cryptocurrency mining malware is said to be operated by a group tracked under the codename of Blue Mockingbird. The activities of the Blue Mockingbird group seem to have started since December last year, based on Red Canary's…