cryptocurrency
Have you heard about Bitcoin multipliers?
Professedly, they are services that multiply any Bitcoin amount you send them by several times, and return to you the total amount in a mere hours. How do they do that? …
Cryptocurrency-mining script planted in apps on Google Play
Coinhive’s cryptocurrency-mining script has found its way into mobile apps offered on Google Play. Trend Micro researchers have spotted two apps that have been equipped …
Coinhive breached due to old, reused password
Coinhive has suffered another setback: their DNS records have been surreptitiously changed by attackers, allowing them to steal cryptocurrency mined via the project’s …
Hackers use organizations’ resources for stealthy cryptocurrency mining
Hackers lusting after cryptocurrency but not wanting to spend money to buy it or mine it are targeting users wallets, computers, popular Web sites and public cloud computing …
How to keep your cryptocoins safe?
Intrigued by the many possibilities of cryptocurrencies – not least by the prospect to “earn” serious money while doing nothing – you’ve decided …
Showtime’s Web sites roped visitors’ CPU into mining cryptocurrency
Here’s the latest good reason for users to block JavaScript: if you don’t, your computer’s CPU power could be used to mine cryptocurrency without your …
Hackers stole over $500,000 from Enigma cryptocurrency investors
Unknown hackers have managed to steal over $500,000 from aspiring investors in the Enigma cryptocurrency investment platform. The Enigma cryptocurrency hack The attack …
Third party trackers on web shops can identify users behind Bitcoin transactions
More and more shopping Web sites accept cryptocurrencies as a method of payment, but users should be aware that these transactions can be used to deanonymize them – even …
New Cerber ransomware variant steals Bitcoin wallets, passwords
Here’s a new reason to fear ransomware more than ever before: a new variant of Cerber has been modified to steal Bitcoin wallets and passwords before encrypting …
Dash invites researchers to hack their blockchain
Thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team for remediation. …
Hacker grabs $30 million in ether through Parity multisig wallet flaw
Another day, another cryptocurrency heist: this time, the attacker has stolen some $30 million in ether (ETH – value token of the Ethereum blockchain) from a number of …
Bondnet botnet goes after vulnerable Windows servers
A botnet consisting of some 2,000 compromised servers has been mining cryptocurrency for its master for several months now, “earning” him around $1,000 per day. …
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