Circle of the fraud: more information about Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign

FortiGuard Labs continues to investigate a series of attacks on Bitcoin users. In our first blog, we provided a deep analysis of malicious samples from the Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign. In this second part, we recreate the full path of a multistage complex attack, shed some light on some other activities of these criminal actors, and reveal their possible identities.

Failed attempt

Bitcointalk.org is a popular place to trade for bitcoins. In 2015 there was a simple and straightforward attack on its users. Somebody registered a…

Article Link: https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/12/22/circle-of-the-fraud-more-information-about-bitcoin-orcus-rat-campaign