{"id":43431,"date":"2021-10-15T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32729\/Malware-Botnet-Gang-Steals-Millions-With-Simple-Trick.html"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:01:46","slug":"malware-botnet-gang-steals-millions-with-simple-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/malware-botnet-gang-steals-millions-with-simple-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware Botnet Gang Steals Millions With Simple Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/c46186e5ea2ef1651c7ad218d89b762571422198\/2021\/10\/15\/ebba8479-c60e-4724-8f98-4647217826af\/shutterstock-1253457799.jpg?width=770&amp;height=578&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The long-running botnet known as MyKings is still in business and has raked in at least $24.7 million by using its network of compromised computers to mine for cryptocurrencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MyKings, also known as Smominru and Hexmen, is the world&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/a-decade-of-malware-top-botnets-of-the-2010s\/\">largest botnet dedicated to mining cryptocurrencies<\/a> by free-riding off its victims desktop and server CPUs. It&#8217;s a lucrative business that gained attention in 2017 after infecting more than half a million Windows computers to mine about $2.3 million of Monero in a month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"> <span class=\"int\">ZDNet Recommends<\/span> <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Security firm Avast <a href=\"https:\/\/decoded.avast.io\/janrubin\/the-king-is-dead-long-live-mykings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">has now confirmed<\/a> its operators have acquired at least $24.7 million in various cryptocurrencies that have been transferred to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/this-new-ransomware-encrypts-your-data-and-makes-some-nasty-threats-too\/\"><strong>This new ransomware encrypts your data and makes some nasty threats, too<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It contends, however, that the group made most of this through its &#8216;clipboard stealer module&#8217;. When it detects that someone has copied a cryptocurrency wallet address (for example to make a payment) this module then swaps in a different cryptocurrency address controlled by the gang.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Avast claims to have blocked the MyKings clipboard stealer from 144,000 computers since the beginning of 2020: the clipboard stealer module has existed since 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security firm Sophos&#8217;s research found that the clipboard stealer, a trojan, monitors PCs for the use of various coin wallet formats. It works because people often use the copy\/paste function to insert relatively long wallet IDs when accessing an account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top placeholder\"> <\/section>\n<p>&#8220;This method relies on the practice that most (if not all) people don&#8217;t type in the long wallet IDs rather store it somewhere and use the clipboard to copy it when they need it,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/medialibrary\/PDFs\/technical-papers\/sophoslabs-uncut-mykings-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Sophos notes in a report<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thus, when they would initiate a payment to a wallet, and copy the address to the clipboard, the Trojan quickly replaces it with the criminals&#8217; own wallet, and the payment is diverted to their account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Sophos also noted that the coin addresses it identified &#8220;hadn&#8217;t received more than a few dollars&#8221;, suggesting coin stealing was a minor part of the MyKings business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crypto-mining side of the business was doing well in 2019, with Sophos estimating it made about $10,000 a month in October 2019. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Avast now argues that that MyKings is making a lot more money from the clipboard trojan after expanding on the 49 coin addresses identified in Sophos&#8217; research to more than 1,300 coin addresses. Avast suggests the role of the clipboard stealer might be much larger than Sophos discovered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/this-is-how-formula-1-teams-fight-off-cyberattacks\/\"><strong>This is how Formula 1 teams fight off cyberattacks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This malware counts on the fact that users do not expect to paste values different from the one that they copied,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/decoded.avast.io\/janrubin\/the-king-is-dead-long-live-mykings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Avast researchers explain in a report<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is easy to notice when someone forgets to copy and paste something completely different (e.g. a text instead of an account number), but it takes special attention to notice the change of a long string of random numbers and letters to a very similar looking string, such as cryptowallet addresses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This process of swapping is done using functions OpenClipboard, EmptyClipboard, SetClipboardData and CloseClipboard. 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