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The malicious malware is designed to find and harvest a slew of sensitive data including credentials, browser data and even cryptocurrency wallets

Cybersecurity experts warned that the group was targeting multiple International Olympic Wintersport Federations in the second half of 2017.

The discovery comes as cybercriminals increasingly tap into cryptocurrency as lures, payment options or attacks.

"It is also possible for an attacker to take control over the profile pictures the user sees, swapping them for inappropriate content," researchers said.

"With a maximum child tax credit of $1,000 per child, that is a potentially significant return on investment," researchers said.

The security researcher said Uber marked his bug report as "informative", which means it contains "useful information but did warrant an immediate action or fix".

Hackers frequently look to target and exploit curious users by tapping into trending issues, events in the news or widely publicised ones in their attacks.

Clarke is the latest in a slew of US conservative political figures and reporters targeted by the Turkish hacking group.

"Since both the Chrome and Firefox extensions mostly add themselves through forced installs, it's not always possible to avoid getting them," researchers said.

The disclosure comes several days after users who purchased products on OnePlus' website reported credit card fraud earlier this month.

The attack comes just days after the group hacked the accounts of India's top diplomat to the United Nations and World Economic Forum president.

Researchers spotted the extensions while investigating a recent suspicious spike in outbound network traffic from a customer's work station.

The latest attacks come as hackers increasingly target cryptocurrency using various nefarious methods amid the growing popularity and value of virtual currency.

The website was abruptly shut down in January 2017 leading many to believe the service was raided by law enforcement.

This isn't the first time hackers have targeted crypto-related businesses and exchanges in recent months.

"We will show you the power of the Turk!" the hackers tweeted from the compromised accounts.

"The only differences, at least at first glance, are the misspelling of Telegram," security researchers warned.

OSX MaMi is a DNS hijacker but also features a slew of other malicious capabilities, security researchers said.

The fake article appeared on the All Whites' official website claiming his resignation was effective immediately.

Researchers presented their findings at the Real World Cryptosecurity conference in Zurich.

The malicious banking malware has been spotted targeting users in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries.

"We greatly regret this error and we apologise to all Mac users," Apple said in a statement.

The group has been using this attack technique in campaigns since at least July 2016, ESET researchers said.

Researcher Arnau Code said he has already successfully tested the CoffeeMiner attack in real-life scenarios including in cafes.

"It's not clear if we're looking at an early test of an attack, or part of a 'legitimate' mining operation," researchers said.

Florida's AHCA said one of its employees fell victim to a "malicious phishing email" late last year.

Since the source code for version 2.0.8.9 of the ZeuS trojan was leaked in 2011, other threat actors have taken inspiration from the malicious code.

"When an IoT exploit becomes freely available, it hardly takes much time for threat actors to up their arsenal," NewSky Security warned.

The vulnerability shows how seemingly insignificant side-channels can exploited to infiltrate even strong smartphone security measures.

Users of the popular Chrome extension Archive Poster reported observing the change around the beginning of December.