Browsing tag
Cryptocurrency may be on the verge of taking over the world economy. It has drawn much attention from people around the world owing to its private and decentralized operation. Moreover, the niche holds tremendous potential for technological advancements. While it provides significant convenience to the world community, it also opens up new ways for larcenists […]
A California-based man who has been selling drugs on the Dark Web in exchange for Bitcoins has been sentenced to ten years in prison. The verdict, announced by United States District Judge James V. Selna, also includes a fine of $15,000 which has to be paid by Reeves. Tyler Reeves, who is 29, has been […]
The Bitcoin’s price that soared to $20,000 due to the cryptocurrency craze may have come down, but the threat still lingers. Kaspersky Labs has come out with a detail report showcasing how some of the known malware of internet has evolved to target crytpocurrency users and services. The threats to cryptocurrency identified by Kaspersky researchers […]
The Blockchain technology is a proven secure system, but that doesn’t mean that engaging with cryptocurrency transaction is safe all the time. This is because of the inherent insecurity of cryptocurrency exchanges, private firms that are engaging in the business of buying and selling cryptocurrencies to real-world currencies, like the US Dollar and the Euro. […]
Bitcoins getting famous day by day, other than bitcoins there are about 710 currencies available for online trade. Here is the list of Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoins. Nowadays a lot of people started us crypto coins, no doubts Bitcoins are the trendsetters. Bitcoins value climb more than $1000 in 2017 January and now it reaches $8,900 […]
Bitcoin is a pure peer-to-peer form of electronic money that would permit the online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial organization and Bitcoin is completely cashless. These transactions are validated by network nodes and published in a public shared record called a blockchain, which ensures Bitcoin’s security. […]
For almost two years, hackers could have easily stolen your prized stash of bitcoins if you were keeping them in the popular software wallet Electrum, thanks to a critical security vulnerability that went unpatched until now. The vulnerability allowed any website (and anyone controlling the site a victim browsed, like a hacker) to steal bitcoins […]
Malware miners are in the raise starting from this year, attackers using various social engineering and more sophisticated attacks such as EternalBlue Which results in attackers getting cryptocurrency Malware, while their victim’s computer systems experience a dramatic slowdown due to the mining process. Over the last month alone, experts from Kaspersky labs have detected several […]
Bitcoin Price Climbs as High as Ever reaches $2000 without precedent for history. The cash’s value ascended as much as 2.62% amid the session according to Coindesk’s BPI. The cost has shot up by 60 percent in the course of the most recent month and that has pulled in numerous Indians to this digital money. […]
Wannacry (WannaCrypt,WanaCrypt0r 2.0,Wanna Decryptor), A Computer Malware family called Ransomware that actually target the Microsoft Windows Operating systems SMB exploit leaked by the Shadow Broker that encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrency bitcoin This Ransomware rule spreads by means of spam messages and malicious download links uniquely intended to lock the documents […]
Four Bitcoin Hot-Wallets of South Koren Bitcoin exchange Firm Yapizon Hacked and Stolen Around “3816.2028 Bitcoin” ( Nearly 5 Million USD) and its makes Massive Impact for Yapizon which is 36.594% of Total Users Founds. According to the Report from Yapizon (Transulate) This Massive Hacking Attempted at On Saturday, April 22, 2017, a hacker attack between […]
Bitcoin Value Climbs more than $1000 in 2017 for the first time in last three years. At 09:00, the BPI( Bitstamp Price Index) saw bitcoin reach $1006.32 before an expanded time of exchanging saw value surge to $1021.88 an hour later. What is Bitcoin and how it works Bitcoin is an advanced money that is […]
Bitcoin (Cryptocurrency) Mining malware is back and it is much more full of vengeance than it was before. Research by security experts at Sophos suggests that countless Seagate Central NAS devices have been identified to be carrying the cryptocurrency mining malware. The malicious software has been dubbed as Miner-C. It has been learned that the […]
Beware of Linux.Lady malware- It Converts Linux-based PCs into Crypto-Currency Miners Security firms have been on a high alert since the beginning of 2016 because of the plethora of scam campaigns and malware emerging on the face of the Internet every now and then. This report is about another such malicious malware that has been […]
Yesterday, a new ransomware called TrueCrypter was discovered by AVG malware analyst Jakub Kroustek. This ransomware encrypts your data using AES-256 encryption and then demands either .2 bitcoins or $115 USD in Amazon gift cards. When encrypting your data, TrueCrypter will append the .enc extension to all encrypted files. It is unsure if the sample that we […]
BitPay the Atlanta-based Bitcoin payment processor had been hit by a massive phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million. Verified by the documents owned by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in this massive con pulled by a hacker pretending to be BitPay CFO Bryan Krohn, sent fake emails from his account in December sanctioning the transfer […]
Back in the month of January, one of the most popular bitcoin exchange namely BitStamp was hacked which resulted in the stealing of over 19,000 bitcoins, worth about $5 million during that time. BitStamp is a European bitcoin exchange company and is officially registered in the United Kingdom. Recently a new document has been surfaced […]
Ross Ulbricht, 31, the accused brain and mastermind behind dark web marketplace Silk Road has been sentenced to life in prison on Friday. Ulbricht was sentenced in a New York City courtroom by United States District Court judge, Katherine Forrest where he was accused of running an illegal underground platform Silk Road and orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 […]
A bad news for Bitcoin fans and supporters. Some unknown hackers have target one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.net and, as a result, $5M worth of bitcoin have been stolen. The United Kingdom and Slovenia-based Bitstamp exchange has taken their website offline in order to secure the remaining Bitcoin and making sure the hackers can not access […]
An emotional appeal posted on the dark market’s official forum clearly stated that “We have been hacked” and nearly $2.4 to $2.7 million of Bitcoins have been disappeared. Bitcoin is often referred to as the digital currency or the cryptocurrency and is explained clearly here. The Defcon note reads: I must utter words all too […]
FreedomWeb is a renowned Irish concern which provides web hosting services for the purpose of Tor hidden services which reached via the Tor encrypted or anonymised network has been shut down. The reason behind the shutdown of the network is that the owner of this company Eric Eoin Marques has been arrested because of allegations of […]