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As you might know, the value of Bitcoin suddenly increased this month and that motivated hackers to target cryptocurrency exchanges and steal user funds or shut down their service so no one can withdraw their funds. But those who cannot hack or mine cryptocurrency are physically assaulting people for it. According to the Manhattan District […]
A group of three hackers have pleaded guilty to their role in developing, spreading and using Mirai malware botnet to conduct large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on some of the Internet’s most popular websites and Dyn DNS, a prominent Domain Name Servers (DNS) service provider. Pleading guilty In a proceeding that took place in US District Court for Alaska on November 28th, Paras […]
Bitfinex (the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by volume) was forced to shut down its continuous operations after experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday, December 12th. DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by flooding it with traffic from various origins. While Bitcoin’s price goes higher and higher, […]
Bitfinex, known as one of the world largest cryptocurrency exchange was forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday, December 12th. Based in Hong Kong, Bitfinex used its Twitter account to inform its customers about the situation and stated that “We are currently under heavy […]
The value of Bitcoin is increasing rapidly making it almost impossible for most of the world to invest and that is why users are trying to invest or mine other currencies including Monero digital coin which is around USD 265. Starbucks and CoinHive code On December 2nd, a Twitter user Noah Dinkin sent out a screenshot that showed […]
Who wouldn’t be willing to acquire the digital cryptocurrency which currently values at around $16,900? But some people prefer to choose the bad way. The social engineers around the world are also filled with greed – a trait found in many humans. According to phishing tracking service CheckPhish, there has been a rise in the […]
Bitcoin has turned out to be one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies in the world with over $15,000 (€13,170) current value. This is great news for those who invested in Bitcoin but even better news for hackers and other malicious elements. Old RAT new capabilities While Bitcoin’s value is up to the sky, cyber threats against its […]
In 2009, James Howells, a British IT worker bought 7,500 Bitcoin, at the time its value was around $130. Currently, 1 Bitcoin according to CoinBase is more than $15,000(€13,170) which means today Howells should have owned a whopping $121 million. But it turned out back in 2013, Howells threw the hard disk that contained the key to his digital wallet […]
Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of their efforts to steal skyrocketing cryptocurrency. NiceHash, the largest Bitcoin mining marketplace, has been hacked, which resulted in the theft of […]
Cryptocurrency marketplace NiceHash said the contents of its bitcoin wallet had been stolen in a security breach and one executive said nearly $64 million had been lost. NiceHash head of marketing Andrej P. Škraba told Reuters on Thursday that the hack was “a highly professional attack with sophisticated social engineering” and that about 4,700 bitcoin, […]
In the past few periods, we’ve seen an escalation in the volatility in the state of Bitcoin and a notable increase in the fees to process activities on the Bitcoin network. For instance, transaction fees that are accredited to the customer by the Bitcoin system have skyrocketed this year, excelling out at close to $20 […]
The cryptocurrency mining marketplace NiceHash has announced it suffered a hack attack. As a result, hackers have stolen an unknown amount of funds and emptied its entire Bitcoin wallet. In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the company said “Unfortunately, there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website. We are currently investigating the nature of the […]
The trend of generating cryptocurrency is increasing, thanks to the growing popularity and rise in the value of the Bitcoin. Some use cryptocurrency mining software while some embed mining codes on their website and take advantage of visitors’ CPU time whenever they visit the site. The Pirate Bay and CBS’s ShowTimes websites were some of the famous ones who […]
The cryptocurrency fell as greatly as 8 percent on Thursday on the Luxembourg confirmed Bitstamp exchange to hit $9,000 exactly, considering a fall of well over $2,000 in under 24 hours. It then edged back up to trade at around $9,400 in the time that followed, still down harshly 4 percent on the day.Bitcoin searches […]
$10,000. That’s the valuation achieved by Bitcoin on November 28, 2017! This is living testimony to the success and the value of cryptocurrencies. Alas! Like everything of value, cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoins, in particular, have attracted eyeballs that hide malicious intents behind them. Hackers, cybercriminals, web stalkers, and fraudsters are striving hard to wreak […]
Bitcoin price is surging, and same goes for cyberattacks against it. The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) team have announced that a hacker breached into their Github repository and changed the two existing Windows files with malicious ones. The reason for it was to trick users and steal their funds. Currently, one Bitcoin (BTC) is almost $10,000 that makes […]
If you’re a Linux user, there are good chances that you might be knowing how to use the command line interface to get the most out of your machine. There are many fun tools for Linux terminal that make working on the same even more interesting. Today, I’m going to tell you how to check […]
Another day, another cryptocurrency wallet hacked – This time; it is Blockchain Wallet CoinPouch. CoinPunch, a Plano, Texas-based company providing multi-currency crypto wallets announced on Twitter that it suffered a breach in which one of its nodes that stored Verge currency got affected and resulted in the loss of user’s funds. We discovered a hack of a @vergecurrency […]
Tether, a start-up firm known for offering dollar-backed cryptocurrency has announced that hackers have breached their security and stole a whopping $30 million worth of tokens. The breach took place on 19th November 2017 while the news of it was announced earlier today. What happened “Yesterday, we discovered that funds were improperly removed from the Tether treasury wallet through malicious action […]
It is very usual these days to find many applications having a hidden crypto-mining module. But the recent trend is more mainstream and is done via web pages. Yes, now websites have started doing crypto-mining and are done totally in the background, all thanks to Coinhive. To note, we have already reported about the beginning […]
Bitcoin surged on Monday, recovering more than $1,000 after losing almost a third of its value in less than four days as traders bought back into the volatile cryptocurrency. Bitcoin tumbled in the second half of last week, falling as low as $5,555 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange on Sunday, a slide of almost 30 […]