{"id":433,"date":"2024-04-12T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/russian-cybercriminals-imitate-web3-games-to-attack-macos-and-windows-users\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:33:07","slug":"russian-cybercriminals-imitate-web3-games-to-attack-macos-and-windows-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/russian-cybercriminals-imitate-web3-games-to-attack-macos-and-windows-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian cybercriminals imitate web3 games to attack macOS and Windows users."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insikt Group\u2019s cybersecurity analysts recently disclosed details about a new malware campaign designed to target both macOS and Windows users. The malware exploits the growing popularity of blockchain-based gaming in an attempt to steal sensitive information and generate financial profit.<\/p>\n<p>This operation, dubbed \u201cWeb of Deceit: The Rise of Imitation Web3 Gaming Scams and Malware Infections,\u201d is suspected to be orchestrated by Russian-speaking hackers, based on evidence found in the HTML code. To entice potential victims, the perpetrators create fake social media accounts to add credibility to their fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n<p>Once the malware is installed on a victim&#8217;s device, it deploys various types of infostealer malware, including Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), Stealc, Rhadamanthys, or RisePro, tailored to the victim&#8217;s operating system. Private data, such as the user&#8217;s operating system type, user-agent, IP address, and browser-connected crypto wallets, are extracted and sent to a pre-configured Telegram channel established by the threat actors, which operates in Russian.<\/p>\n<p>This allows the hackers to access and exploit the stolen information for their nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insikt Group\u2019s cybersecurity analysts recently disclosed details about a new malware campaign designed to target both macOS and Windows users. The malware exploits the growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-cybersecurity-and-malware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptogoldex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}