Thus, besides attacking industries such as healthcare, telecoms, fintech, and film and media companies, evidence suggests that the hacking collective, dubbed APT41 by the intelligence company, has infiltrated and phished a number of companies operating in the cryptocurrency industry.
In June 2018, APT41 targeted a crypto exchange with spear-phishing emails. The same month, using the same email address, APT41 sent spear-phishing emails that prompted targets to join a cryptocurrency-denominated decentralised gaming platform to game studios.
Furthermore, the hacking group deployed malicious code that uploads a monero mining bot on a target’s computer, in what is developing into a common form of cyber extortion, the online publication adds.
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