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Worlds Fourth Largest Cryptocurrency called “Bithumb ” hacked by unknown hackers and stolen around 31,800 Bithumb users account details which are 3% of the platform’s entire userbase. Many Bithumb users data such as an e-mail address, mobile phone numbers and other Personal information has been leaked by this breach. Few Weeks before Biggest Bitcoin Wallet […]
According to local media reports and confirmed in an official blog post, an unidentified hacker(s) managed to steal an unknown (or probably undisclosed) amount of cryptocurrency from Bithumb. It is the world’s fourth largest cryptocurrency exchange. Bitcoin and Ethereum are main currencies found on the platform. The worst affected are people based in South Korea which makes […]
Update1: The heading of this article was updated due to confusion among readers that stolen currency was in USD – The stolen money was in South Korean Won not in USD. Bithumb, one of the largest Bitcoin and Ether exchange platforms, has been hacked resulting in a loss of billions of South Korean Won with […]
With the exponential rise in the price of bitcoin, this cryptocurrency is generating tons of interest among people. By now, many people have heard of bitcoin and it’s gaining acceptance. So, in that line, here are some interesting bitcoin facts that you must know. Give them a read and share it with your friends and […]
After the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the favorite target of cyber criminals is cryptocurrency exchanges. In the latest, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform BTC-E.com suffered a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks disrupting its service and forcing the platform to go offline. The attacks started on 5th June when a Tweet came […]
It seems that WannaCry had a predecessor that apparently carried out attacks which involved mining the cryptocurrency Monero using the same vulnerability found in Windows’ Sever Message Block (SMB) protocol. Adylkuzz – another NSA enabled malware: According to the researchers, the crypto miners malware uses the same tool, EternalBlue, to exploit the same vulnerability in Microsoft […]
Yapizon, a South Korean Bitcoin exchange suffered a massive data breach earlier this week when hackers stole 3816.2028 Bitcoin (US$5 million) which is 37% of user funds. According to the official statement from the exchange in the Korean language, the attack took place on Saturday, April 22, 2017, when a hacker compromised four of the […]
A famous Dark Web vendor known by their handle of “DoubleFlag” is selling databases of eleven Bitcoin forums on a popular dark web marketplace. The databases were stolen between 2011 to 2017 from widely visited forums providing information about Bitcoin mining and trading. The combined number of data stolen from these forums is more than […]
Cyren, an Internet security firm, has discovered a new malware that can steal bitcoin and passwords from cryptocurrency wallets on computers. The company wrote on its blog that the malware is primarily targeting banking customers and the campaign is quite huge. The US and Singapore-based users are mainly targeted by this campaign. The malware is […]
Blockchain, the technology underlying the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is modeled to revolutionize as per the nature of commercial transactions. Bitcoin is a non-governmental and peer-to-peer currency, and it is the first currency of its nature. Bitcoin is famously known as a virtual currency, and its maker is trying to make it equivalent to the currencies issued […]
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 […]
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on which users can trade the Ether cryptocurrency, while the Ethereum Project is the governing body that manages the platform. The Ethereum forum is where most Ether […]
Zcash, a cryptocurrency that debuted on 28th October 2016, is believed to be more anonymous than the overhyped Bitcoin. This new virtual currency has attracted the attention of investors, academics as well as hackers since the latter have managed to use this new currency for their malicious purposes. Reportedly, hackers are installing software on Windows-based computers […]
An unknown hacker has stolen at least $300,000 in Augur and Ether cryptocurrency from Bo Shen, the founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, and one of the early adopters of many of today’s cryptocurrencies. Shen is what cryptocurrency experts call a “whale,” meaning a person or organization that holds so much of a cryptocurrency’s […]
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 […]
A hacker is selling hacked database of BitcoinTalk.org, a Bitcoin forum that was hacked in May 2015 but its database was leaked a couple of days ago. You may have heard of the phrase ”It’s raining cats and dogs” but in the world of cyber security, it’s raining data! Yes, a couple of hours ago HackRead […]
BTC-E Bitcoin Exchange and the popular forum BitcoinTalk has become victims of security breaches. The news was made public by the famous data breach notification site LeakedSource in which it was also revealed that the breaches occurred in 2014 and 2015. The news bit has come as a shock to many because it is a general […]
Trojan targets CMS platforms running on Linux servers. What initially looked like a string of Drupal sites infected with ransomware (that didn’t work properly) now looks like a professional cybercrime operation that relies on a self-propagating Linux trojan to create a botnet with various capabilities. Last May, in a Softpedia exclusive, Stu Gorton, CEO and Co-Founder […]
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 […]
Good news for The Pirate Bay fans — Though The Pirate Bay’s .SE domain is now a thing of past, the .org domain is up and running! Days after losing its .SE domain name The Pirate Bay is back with a new domain name and this time they have decided to go .org. Yes, ThePirateBay.se is now […]
Adware installers are out of control and with little or no law regulating them, the crap they push onto their victims is getting worse and worse. Yesterday, while looking through a few adware installers I noticed a new offer called VNLGP Miner. Once I saw the word miner, I knew that this would install some sort of […]