Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

guest · Aug 17, 2021

Malicious Ads Target Cryptocurrency Users With Cinobi Banking Trojan
August 17, 2021
https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/malicious-ads-target-cryptocurrency.html

A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with cryptocurrency accounts.

The application masquerades as an animated porn game, a reward points application, or a video streaming application, Trend Micro researchers Jaromir Horejsi and Joseph C Chen said in an analysis published last week, attributing the operation to a threat actor it tracks as Water Kappa, which was previously found targeting Japanese online banking users with the Cinobi trojan by leveraging exploits in Internet Explorer browser.
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"The new malvertising campaign shows that Water Kappa is still active and continuously evolving their tools and techniques for greater financial gain — this one also aims to steal cryptocurrency," the researchers said. "In order to minimise the chances of being infected, users need to be wary of suspicious advertisements on shady websites, and as much as possible, download applications only from trusted sources."
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Trend Micro: Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

We found a new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan that delivered a malicious application. The malicious application abused sideloading vulnerabilities to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan.
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