Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to …
Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability
The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software …
SamSam Ransomware Attacks Extorted Nearly $6 Million
Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revealed that …
CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service
Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and …
Coinhoarder Hackers Abused Google AdWords & Earned More than $50 Million via Bitcoin Phishing Campaign
Ukraine Cyberpolice and Researchers from Cisco Talos uncovered a Bitcoin Phishing campaign that uses Google AdWords to find their victim. …
Ethereum vs Bitcoin: Can the Ethereum Take the Throne?
Bitcoin has always been the leading cryptocurrency running the show for quite some time now until in the year 2014 …
North Korean Hacking Group “Lazarus” Targeting Banks & Bitcoin Users Via Sophisticated Malware
A New Malware campaign dubbed HaoBao distributing by North Korean Hacking Group “Lazarus” that specifically targets cryptocurrency and financial organizations via …
Hackers Exploiting ‘Bitmessage’ Zero-Day to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys
Bitmessage developers have warned of a critical ‘remotely executable’ zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage application that was being exploited in …
Russian Scientists arrested for using Secret Nuclear Weapons Lab Supercomputer to Mine Bitcoin
Russian Scientists arrested for using All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics supercomputers to mine bitcoins secretly. The institute was located …
New Spritecoin Ransomware Steals Browser Passwords & Asks Monero Instead of Bitcoin to Decrypt the Files
A New Spritecoin Ransomware Discovered which is Demanding the Monero Crypto Currency to Decrypt the victim’s files instead of traditional …