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It's interesting seeing all these novel ways of stealing cryptocurrency. So far we have seen Twitter scams where people impersonate high profile accounts in the hope people will think it's a real cryptocurrency giveaway and actually send funds to various wallets.

Then there is the cryptominer/cryptojacking technique where the unused CPU power of personal computers is used to mine various cryptocurrency (often stealthily run in the background and the user is unaware they are mining cryptocurrency).

Then there was that recent story of the so called 'cryptocurrency bandit' who scraped wallet addresses and then broke into the wallets which were encrypted with a weak password.

If anyone on here knows of other novel techniques (aside from what I mentioned and the SIM-swapping method); then I would love to hear the methods.




People have programs that scan github uploads for AWS, etc credentials accidentally uploaded by victim and spawn images that mind crypto for the attacker’s.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder_shows_g...


Wow. I’m always amazed at the lengths people will go to to abuse anything and everything.


You forgot about cracking ipmi hashes, this has been an incredibly popular way to steal wallets off servers.




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