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Popular Chinese Bitcoin Trading Exchange Denies Hacking Rumors And Blames Customer For Poor Security. Phishing scams against digital currency platforms are nothing new, but if rumors are to be believed, the Chinese Bitcoin exchange OKEx became a victim of a hack attack at the end of August. According to a user, on August 28 he noticed […]
North Korean State-Sponsored Hackers Attacked Four Virtual Currency Exchanges in Seoul- Report Reveals. North Korea is being held responsible for conducting cyber-attacks against South Korean virtual currency exchanges. According to a report from Yonhap news agency, police carried out a comprehensive investigation and concluded that North Korea is directly responsible for cyber attacks on dozens […]
Spam Campaigns Using Trickbot Banking Trojan on the Rise Targeting Cryptocurrencies and Non-traditional currencies. A campaign involving Trickbot banking Trojan has been identified by Forcepoint Security Labs that is targeting cryptocurrencies. This Trojan is known for targeting financial institutions and its malware strain was firstly identified in fall 2016. According to security experts, the malware […]
On August 20th, Enigma, a decentralized marketplace and cryptocurrency investment platform was hacked by an unknown hacker. As a result, $500,000 in Ethereum was stolen. The hack attack occurred when the company was gearing up for crypto token sale. The attack was quite sophisticated since the hacker took over Enigma’s website, admin passwords, email newsletter and Slack account. The hacker […]
Introducing The Coco Framework A growing number of companies are showing interest in block chains, but the underlying software does not meet key business requirements such as performance, confidentiality, governance and required processing power. However, Microsoft wants to help solve these problems and make it easier for companies to build their networks using any distributed […]
Veritaseum Ethereum platform confirmed today that a hacker was able to steal millions of $ 8.4 from the ICO Ethereum (Coin Initial Offers) platform. The anonymous hacker was able to steal true chips during the ICO. Because the ICO was running and the chips were in demand, the hacker immediately sold to other buyers. “ICOs […]
Another day another Ethereum related breach – This time its Veritaseum platform, whose Initial Coin Offering (ICO) suffered a data breach in which around US$8.4 million worth of Ethereum have been stolen on Sunday. In an analysis report published by Veritaseum’s founder Reggie Middleton, the hackers conducted a “very sophisticated” hack attack on the platform and stole US$8.4M worth […]
Veritaseum has confirmed today that a hacker stole $8.4 million from the platform’s ICO on Sunday, July 23. This is the second ICO hack in the last week and the fourth hack of an Ethereum platform this month. An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is similar to a classic IPO (Initial Public Offering), but instead of […]
If you have stored funds at Parity Technologies, a smart contract coding firm, multi-signature wallet then it is the right time to move them to normal wallets. Parity has issued security alert of “critical” nature to make customers aware of an exploitable vulnerability in its multi-signature wallet software. Reportedly, the vulnerability has been identified in […]
CoinDash Website has been hacked by unknown hackers during our Token Sale event which leads to $7 million worth of Ethereum was stolen in about half an hour. Few Days Before World’s Fourth Largest Cryptocurrency “Bithumb” Hacked and Many Number of User Accounts Compromised. CoinDash held its Token Sale event, in which investors were meant to be able […]
CoinDash (ISO), an Israeli cryptocurrency social trading start-up has announced that it has suffered a massive security breach in which the company’s crowdfunding page was hacked during Token Sale event earlier today — As a result, unknown hackers stole Ethereum worth $7 million. [irp posts=”54981″ name=”Hackers Steal Billions in S.Korean Won by Hacking 4th Largest Bitcoin Exchange”] The […]
One of the biggest exchanges and cryptocurrencies Ether Bitcoin worlds, Bithumb has recently been violated, resulting in a loss of Over $1 Million Worth Bitcoin and Ether Stolen after a number of user accounts have been compromised. Bithumb is the largest South Korean exchange cryptocurrencies with 20% of global trade, and about 10% of world […]
According to local media reports and confirmed in an official blog post, an unidentified hacker(s) managed to steal an unknown (or probably undisclosed) amount of cryptocurrency from Bithumb. It is the world’s fourth largest cryptocurrency exchange. Bitcoin and Ethereum are main currencies found on the platform. The worst affected are people based in South Korea which makes […]
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on which users can trade the Ether cryptocurrency, while the Ethereum Project is the governing body that manages the platform. The Ethereum forum is where most Ether […]