{"id":5852,"date":"2025-10-16T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/hackers-abuse-blockchain-smart-contracts-to-spread-malware-via-infected-wordpress-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:11:46","slug":"hackers-abuse-blockchain-smart-contracts-to-spread-malware-via-infected-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/hackers-abuse-blockchain-smart-contracts-to-spread-malware-via-infected-wordpress-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Abuse Blockchain Smart Contracts to Spread Malware via Infected WordPress Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA financially motivated threat actor codenamed UNC5142 has been observed abusing blockchain smart contracts as a way to facilitate the distribution of information stealers such as Atomic (AMOS), Lumma, Rhadamanthys (aka RADTHIEF), and Vidar, targeting both Windows and Apple macOS systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and &#8216;EtherHiding,&#8217; a technique used\u00a0A financially motivated threat actor codenamed UNC5142 has been observed abusing blockchain smart contracts as a way to facilitate the distribution of information stealers such as Atomic (AMOS), Lumma, Rhadamanthys (aka RADTHIEF), and Vidar, targeting both Windows and Apple macOS systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and &#8216;EtherHiding,&#8217; a technique used\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA financially motivated threat actor codenamed UNC5142 has been observed abusing blockchain smart contracts as a way to facilitate the distribution of information stealers such as Atomic (AMOS), Lumma, Rhadamanthys (aka RADTHIEF), and Vidar, targeting both Windows and Apple macOS systems. &#8220;UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and &#8216;EtherHiding,&#8217; a technique&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/hackers-abuse-blockchain-smart-contracts-to-spread-malware-via-infected-wordpress-sites\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Abuse Blockchain Smart Contracts to Spread Malware via Infected WordPress Sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}