{"id":139573,"date":"2022-05-18T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/microsoft-warns-of-cryware-info-stealing-malware-targeting-crypto-wallets"},"modified":"2022-05-18T21:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:02:38","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-cryware-info-stealing-malware-targeting-crypto-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/microsoft-warns-of-cryware-info-stealing-malware-targeting-crypto-wallets","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns of \u201cCryware\u201d Info-Stealing Malware Targeting Crypto Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-warns-of-cryware-info-stealing-malware-targeting-crypto-wallets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft warns of \u201ccryware\u201d malware that steals information and exfiltrate data directly from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft is warning of an emerging threat targeting internet-connected cryptocurrency wallets, signaling a departure in the use of digital coins in cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant dubbed the new threat \u201ccryware,\u201d with the attacks resulting in the irreversible theft of virtual currencies by means of fraudulent transfers to an adversary-controlled wallet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCryware are information stealers that collect and exfiltrate data directly from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/h\/hot-wallet.asp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hot wallets<\/a>,\u201d Berman Enconado and Laurie Kirk of the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/in-hot-pursuit-of-cryware-defending-hot-wallets-from-attacks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a new report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft warns of \u201ccryware\u201d malware that steals information and exfiltrate data directly from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets. Microsoft is warning of an emerging threat targeting internet-connected cryptocurrency wallets, signaling a departure in the use of digital coins in cyberattacks. The tech giant dubbed the new threat \u201ccryware,\u201d with the attacks resulting in the irreversible theft of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}