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Short Bytes: Phineas Phisher, the hacker who attacked the Hacking Team, has donated about $11,000 in bitcoin to Rojava to help fight ISIS. Phisher says that he stole the money from a bank and calls Rojava’s efforts as “one of the most inspiring revolutionary projects in the world.” The hacker who claimed to hack the Hacking Team and […]
€10K in Bitcoin Given to Rojava-based Kurdish anticapitalist group by same Hacker who compromised Hacking Team and Gamma Group Do you remember Algerian hacker Hamza Bendelladj who was arrested in Malaysia for hacking into banks and donating a large amount of money to Palestinian charities? Well, he’s in prison now but there’s another good hacker […]
Phineas Fisher donates 25 Bitcoin to Syria’s Rojava region.Phineas Fisher, also known as Hack Back, the hacker who breached Hacking Team last summer, revealed on Reddit yesterday that he hacked a bank and donated the money to the Rojava autonomous Syrian province, made up mainly of Syrian and Turkish citizens of Kurdish descent. The hacker […]
Blast from the Past Haunts LinkedIn – A Hacker Leaks Details of LinkedIn users Online YET AGAIN! Social media platforms are becoming excessively and increasingly vulnerable to data leaks, hacks, and scams. Every other day we read about some or the other social networking website getting exploited, compromised, scammed or hacked resulting in exposure of profiles, email […]
Australian computer scientist claims he is the elusive Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The hunt for creator of world’s most popular cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin seems to have finally come to an end. Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright has publicly identified himself as “Satoshi Nakamoto,” founder of Bitcoin. Wright has told three media organizations — the BBC, […]
Security Researchers Discover a Potentially Dangerous Cross-Platform PWOBot Malware Family- PWOBot Now this can be termed as devastating news for computer users around the world. Palo Alto Networks has discovered a family of malware that is capable of attacking a variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. The malware is written in Python, […]
An online wallet service for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies CoinWallet was forced to shut down their operations by May 1, 2016, after an ugly data breach incident that transpired on April 6, 2016. This is the Fourth Bitcoin platform in the past month to get knocked out by a cyber-attack in a row, and the […]
Bitcoin’s Secure Wallet Service Coinkite Inc. Closing Down due to never-ending DDoS Attacks and Governmental Nagging Bitcoin exchanges around the world face cyber attacks every now and then, some owners give up while some fight back. In the case of Bitcoin startup Coinkite Inc., it is now officially announced that its secure wallet service, which […]
BitQuick announces huge downtime after attempted cyber-heist. Bitcoin trading platform BitQuick announced on Thursday, March 17, that it would be shutting down its service for the next two to four weeks to investigate a cyber-attack that took place on Monday, March 14. BitQuick staff said that, during the incident, the attacker managed to break through their […]
In 2014, Redmond reckoned Bitcoin was the future. It once also said that about Zune. Back in November 2014 Microsoft announced that it had struck a deal with an outfit called Bitpay that would let it accept Bitcoin in the Windows Store. “For us, this is about giving people options and helping them do more on […]
Researcher-devised exploit threatens Bitcoin wallets and other high-value assets. Researchers have devised an attack on Android and iOS devices that successfully steals cryptographic keys used to protect Bitcoin wallets, Apple Pay accounts, and other high-value assets. The exploit is what cryptographers call a non-invasive side-channel attack. It works against theElliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm, a crypto […]
“Active attacker community” often emptied accounts minutes after they went live. Hackers have siphoned about $103,000 out of Bitcoin accounts that were protected with an alternative security measure, according to research that tracked six years’ worth of transactions. Account-holders used easy-to-remember passwords to protect their accounts instead of the long cryptographic keys normally required. The heists were […]
Hospital staff severely impeded in their day-to-day work. The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, a 430+ beds hospital in the middle of Los Angeles, has been hit by a cyber-attack and its systems are now being held hostage by hackers that are demanding a ransom. The incident took place at the start of February but was kept […]
The European Commission (EC) has decided to end anonymous virtual currency Bitcoin trading to track money-laundering that “helps terrorist group funding”. The EC published its Action Plan (PDF) yesterday, to intensify the fight against terrorism financing because as per the commission’s analysis criminals quickly find out newer strategies and techniques to move money through undetectable ways. […]
The Internet’s largest torrents platform Kickass faced major outage due to a series of powerful DDoS attacks by unknown hackers Kickass Torrents is the biggest torrent portal on the Internet. It is also listed in Alexa’s top 100 sites and therefore, it is often the target of DDoSing groups and cyber criminals from around the […]
Bitcoin-for-DDoS extortion scheme has a new victim and its none other than the BTCC — However, the hacker was unfortunate this time as the company was capable financially and had implemented advanced DDoSprotection measures beforehand. On 31st December, the first of the series of DDoS attacks on BTCC, a renowned Bitcoin trader company, took place, […]
EVEN AS HIS face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody. The 44-year-old Australian, Skyping into the D Hotel ballroom’s screen, wore the bitcoin enthusiast’s equivalent of camouflage: a black blazer and […]
People who download stuff from torrents and other cracked software providing websites have a very bad news because a user recently downloaded a pirated copy of one of the newly launched games “Fallout 4” and lost about 5 bitcoins through a malware-packed in the setup files of the game. A user of Reddit “Op arkanoah” posted […]
A hacking group (Armada Collective) which was previously held responsible for launching DDoS attacks on ProtonMail is back and this time targeting Greek banks and using the old DDoS-for-Bitcoin extortion scheme. In the ProtonMail case, the company paid ransom to the group but Greek banks contacted law enforcement authorities instead. The attacks started on 26th […]
Wallets are becoming more integrated with other things. Soon, we might all use our phones as a way to pay for things. However, the ultimate way to ensure that you don’t forget your wallet at home is to embed it into your skin. That’s exactly what Patric Lanhed is doing, having placed a tiny computer […]
Short Bytes: FBI has advised ransomware victims to pay the ransom and retrieve their data as there is not much the top law enforcement agency of the USA can do in this matter. It is pretty difficult to decrypt the ransomware so users are at the hacker’s mercy. Getting hacked is so common these days […]