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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is Cryptojacking? With the rise in the adoption of cryptocurrencies all around the world, the foul players on the web are also exploiting this opportunity to earn fraudulent clicks. In the past few months, we have told you about different websites and browser extensions using Coinhive miners to use your CPU power without notifying you; […]
Google is trying its best to “make Chrome secure again,” but when it comes to Play Store and protecting Android devices, the tech giant is failing miserably. Although there are a couple of Android bug bounty programmes offering a lucrative amount of money, the marketplace just can’t get rid of malware, in fact, the old ones keep coming back. BankBot […]
As surprising and unbelievable as it sounds, it is indeed true that a single user has managed to jeopardize lives of countless individuals by permanently locking down dozens of multisignature digital wallets simply by accidentally deleting the code needed to access the wallets. The wallets were hosted by Parity Technologies; the company admitted that the […]
What if your access to your whole digital currency pile is restricted due to a person’s fault? What would you do? This isn’t a hypothetical scenario for some people who are holding popular cryptocurrency Ethereum in Parity digital wallet. Parity has warned users that due to a mistake by code contributor devops199, the library needed […]
The CryptoShuffler malware has been discovered by security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are using this malware to steal cryptocurrencies from the victim’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the devices. The malware remains idly on victims’ machines, waiting for a Bitcoin transaction then substitute any string that seems like a Bitcoin […]
Popular cryptocurrency wallets are under threat currently as the notorious CryptoShuffler Trojan is stealing cryptocurrencies. According to the findings of Kaspersky Labs, which discovered the Trojan, mainstream cryptocurrencies including Dash, Monero, Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash, etc., have been targeted by attackers so far using CryptoShuffler and hackers have stolen $150,000 (£113,250) worth of Bitcoins. The […]
Hackers, website owners or even cybercriminals are finding new ways to use cryptocurrency miners to make easy money by using CPU of unsuspecting users. Last week, it was reported that two cryptocurrency mining malware apps were targeting Android users and now, for the second time in a week researchers have discovered three more malware-infected apps on Google […]
In two different incidents, security of high profile platforms was compromised. These platforms include jQuery and CoinHive. jQuery Earlier today, two hackers going by the online handle of “n3tr1x” and “str0ng” hacked and defaced the official blog (blog.jquery.com) of jQuery. The JavaScript library platform was using WordPress content management system (CMS) for its blog and looking at the […]
The US-based cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex, which happens to be the largest exchange service in the world with over a hundred types of cryptocurrencies available for trading/buying, has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. In August 2017, we reported that a security researcher managed to bypass the 2FA (two-factor authentication) process […]
Google Aims to Put an End to Secret Cryptojacking by Making In-Browser Permissions Necessary. In-browser cryptocurrency mining has become the latest obsession among website operators as it is being deemed as the perfect alternative to display ads. However, the point of debate is that these miners are being deployed without asking or informing users. On […]
Studies on the topic of in-browser miners have been going on the Chromium project’s bug tracker since mid-September when Coinhive, the first launched. To experience, there have been at least two issues from concerned Chrome users that did not like holding their resources hijacked by in-browser miners. “Here’s my current view,” Ojan Vafai, a Chrome […]
Gamers were delighted with the release of world’s second most popular video game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) released by Rockstar North. It was in every way a modder’s dream as while playing the game it allowed gamers to change the base game to a great extent. However, with the high profile and extreme […]
Over 500 million computer are mining cryptoCurrency in their browsers without users knowledge by 100 of the website by injecting mining scripts in their browsers by secretly hijacks visitors CPU’s. Crypto mining is not something like malware or any other malicious payload but its used by many top ranking websites for injecting a mining JavaScript […]
Previously it was reported that torrent search platform The Pirate Bay and other popular sites have been using visitor PCs to mine cryptocurrency and new reports have revealed that these are not the only websites that are exploiting our PCs but hundreds of websites are mining cryptocurrency without notifying the users. Bitcoin or Monero are […]