Beware of malware aiming a new group of crypto investors.

Beware of malware aiming a new group of crypto investors spread through the Obsidian note app.

Krypto Kerrency, although the current investment flow is not as hot as it was many years ago, with its excellent transaction confidentiality, is still a target of theft by hackers, allowing hackers to use a variety of malware types to access their pockets and rob them.

According to a report by the Coinmarketcap website, a new malware theft campaign has been detected by a research team from Elastic Security Labs, a cyber management expert, The research team has revealed that the hackers behind the attack campaign are using social engineering to deceive victims through social media for workers like LinkedIn, claiming to be represented by fundraisers or Venture Capital to persuade them to join financial projects, and that the crooks often invite victims to talk through Telegram chat and persuade victims. Use the Obsidian Notes application to access the data on the company's database (impersonated). The hackers provide a password for entering the cloud "safe" (Vault) that claims to belong to the company that is actually under the control of the hackers.

After the victim has access to the Vault on the cloud, the Vault instructs the victim to activate the plug-in. The victim activates the plug-in as defined by the hackers. The Trojan plug-in will start immediately, leading to the Infection Chain embedding into the machine with the Vault as the carrier. The Infection Chain can run on both Windows and macOS. This will lead to the embedding of malware of the remote access type, or RAT (Remote Access Trojan) called PHANTOMPULSE

PHANTOMPULSE malware can be called very insidious because it has a decentralized C2 or Command and Control system operating on up to three Blockchain networks. The malware reads on-Chain Transaction connected to a defined wallet to connect to the hacker's system and wait for the next order.

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