Syscoin Hacked, Malware Inserted into GitHub Account
Syscoin Compromised
According to the project’s development team, a hacker replaced the official Windows client with another version containing malware. Users of the software alerted the development team to the presence of the malware in the Windows client when the program started showing up on their computers as malicious.
The tainted Windows client introduced by the hacker contained a malware called Arkei Stealer (Trojan:Win32/Feury.B!cl) — a trojan known for stealing wallet keys and passwords. The project team published a security notice on GitHub, which states:
Upon investigation, the Syscoin developers found that a malicious, unsigned copy of the Windows Syscoin 3.0.4.1 installer was made available via the Syscoin Github release page on June 9th, 2018 due to a compromised GitHub account. This installer contained malicious code. (Trojan:Win32/Feury.B!cl).
The virustotal scan of the malicious file named “re.exe” that is saved to the local temp folder (C:UsersuserAppDataLocalTemp) upon running the fake installer: https://www. …
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