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COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style

Cisco has been tracking a bitcoin theft campaign for over 6 months. The campaign was discovered internally and researched with the aid of an intelligence sharing partnership with Ukraine Cyberpolice. Cisco observed a massive phishing campaign hosted in Ukraine targeting the popular Bitcoin wallet site blockchain.info with a client request magnitude of over 200,000 client queries. This campaign was unique in that adversaries leveraged Google Adwords to poison user search results in order to steal users’ wallets. The revenue generated by these sorts of attacks, can then be reinvested into other cybercriminal operations.”]

Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/coinhoarder.html

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