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Hackers are stealing crypto from one another over Telegram

posted onApril 19, 2021
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Hackers are operating a scam via messaging application Telegram in a bid to swindle fellow cybercriminals, researchers have discovered.

According to security company Avast, hackers are using the encrypted messaging platform to distribute HackBoss malware and have so far stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from victims.

The malware is disguised as software for brute-forcing passwords for banking, dating and social media accounts. Once the wannabe hacker runs the program, crypto-stealing malware is intalled on their device. HackBoss is also said to be relatively persistent, given that it comes with a registry key to run it at startup, as well as a scheduled task that runs the payload every minute.

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