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In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay (TPB) was running a cryptocurrency miner provided by CoinHive. The code used visitor’s CPU bandwidth to generate Monero digital coins without informing them or allowing them to Opt-In or Opt-Out. In reply, TPB claimed, “the miner is being tested for a short period (~24 hours) as a new way to generate revenue.” Another […]
For the last couple of weeks, the trend of inserting code in websites that generate cryptocurrency has been growing like never before. What might worry some is that it uses visitor’s computers to start and finish the process. Recently, Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm discovered that hackers are compromising charity, school, and file sharing websites with a […]
Pirate Bay got this the hard way when users on Reddit lately complained regarding the site’s use of such miners. The website eventually backed away from the practice, but not after giving a fair deal. “As you may have seen we are testing a Monero javascript miner,” said the site’s administrators. “This is simply a […]
CloudFlare says sites running mining code without notifying users are considered to be malware. In the last couple of weeks, researchers discovered an increasing trend in which website owners were found using cryptocurrency miners that can hijack CPUs of its visitors to generate digital currency without informing users. First, it was The Pirate Bay and later two domains owned by CBS […]
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 […]
It has only been a week since The Pirate Bay admitted to discreetly running a crypto miner to obtain CPU resources of the visitors to rake in Monero coins. Now, it seems that the trend is becoming popular since according to latest reports two of CBS Corporation’s premium cable network Showtime’s websites Showtime.com and ShowtimeAnytime.com […]
An old vulnerability in the Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) telecom network protocol was used by Positive Technologies researchers to access and steal data from a test account, which they had registered recently at Coinbase, a bitcoin exchange platform. It is thus, identified that through exploiting the SS7 flaw, an attacker could access text messages […]
In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software on users’ computer to get generate revenue. Now, something similar has happened with The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the most visited platforms for downloading pirated content. As Alexa shows TPB is among 87 most visited sites in the world while it […]
The Reserve Bank of India has cautioned people about the possible drawbacks of the popular cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin. They may seem to not like Bitcoin but this doesn’t mean the RBI bank has set aside the whole idea of digital currency alternatives. According to a the Economic Times, RBI is planning to get in […]
Hopping on the cryptocurrency train early is going to be a very rewarding move for, potentially, millions of people around the globe. Unfortunately, the unregulated currency also provides a safe haven for those who are involved in nefarious activities. This will include online drug dealers, ransomware hackers, and several others. However, there is a new […]
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 […]
Cyber security firm Trend Micro’s research team has identified that the latest breed of cryptocurrency miner operates as a fileless malware, which means the malware exists in the memory of the infected system only. Its key targets are Windows based systems, and it uses the EternalBlue exploit to gain access to the system and being […]
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 […]
Bittrex is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange known for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and digital tokens. That’s the reason it makes for a lucrative target for hackers and cyber criminals. Lately, Bittrex users are complaining about a fake website pretending to be the official site for Bittrex exchange. But in reality, it is a phishing domain not only stealing […]
The sold vulnerability facilitates Bypassing 2FA on Poloniex – The hacker sold the flaw after they waited for Poloniex’s reply for 2 months. The security researcher who bypassed the two-factor authentication on Poloniex, a digital asset exchange service based in the United States, states that he has sold the vulnerability now after giving the company 60 […]
A 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik who also happened to be the co-owner of BTC-e, one of the most popular and largest Bitcoin exchanges in Russia was arrested by Greek police in Thessaloniki city. The arrest was conducted on a warrant issued by the US law enforcement authorities suspecting him of money laundering of over $4 million via Bitcoin transactions […]
Kaspersky Lab has identified the presence of a backdoor designed primarily for attacking Windows systems. When the backdoor successfully infects the system the malware automatically enhances its process priorities and creates a connection to the C&C server using the IRC protocol. After collecting system information, it sends it to the C&C domain and exchanges pings […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]