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Romanian Websites Use CoinHive Scripts to Illegally Mine Monero

January 20, 2018 by Akshay Makadiya at Altcoins, Mining, News, Tech

According to the Romanian National Computer Security Incident Response Team (CERT-RO), about 150 Romain domains run the cryptojacking malware CoinHive Script. CoinHive is known to have affected millions of computers around the world to mine the privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero. Cryptojacking: Critical Global Issue CoinHive is a tool which hijacks computers...

More than $400,000 of Stellar Lumen Stolen By Hackers

January 19, 2018 by Andrew Weilbacher at Altcoins, News

In what was the latest hack in the cryptocurrency world, there was over $400,000 stolen in the form of the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency after a cyber-attack on BlackWallet – a popular provider of digital wallets. Ongoing Investigation The group who carried out this attack has not been identified as of...

US Treasury Secretary: The Dollar Could Be Converted Into “Digital Dollar”

January 16, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Regulation, Tech

The United States, through its Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, has declared that they are closely watching the digital currency ecosystem and could turn the US dollar into a cryptocurrency in the distant future. Crypto Dollar According to Express, Steve Mnuchin has said that in line with the recent popularity of...

UW System School infected with Bitcoin Mining Scripts

January 15, 2018 by Akshay Makadiya at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Mining, News, Tech

The University of Wisconsin System discovered three of its servers mining Bitcoin. The UW Madison news section reported, illegal crypto miners exploited three servers at UW-Madison, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior by installing Bitcoin mining malware via the Oracle WebLogic software vulnerability. The UW System schools infected server were put offline to...

Indiana Hospital Hacked, Held Ransom for Bitcoin

January 15, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, News, Tech

Hancock Regional Hospital, just east of Indiana, has become the latest victim of a Bitcoin cyber-attack. New Attack Variants in the Digital Era According to local reporters in the county, Hancock Regional Hospital was a victim of a computer systems hack on January 12, 2018. The unknown party of attackers...

North Korean hackers mining Monero to overcome UN sanctions

January 11, 2018 by Akshay Makadiya at Altcoins, Mining, News

Chris Doman, a cybersecurity researcher at AlienVault, U.S.-based security firm, has discovered a malware that mines cryptocurrencies using foreign computers while the earnings deposit to a North Korean university’s wallet in Pyongyang. Malware links to North Korea As North Korea faces tougher United Nation sanctions, it is looking for alternative...

MyEtherWallet Refutes Hacking Rumors

January 10, 2018 by Nigel Dollentas at Ethereum, News

MyEtherWallet recently refuted rumors that the popular online Ethereum wallet service was hacked, allegations made by developers from Blue, the “only ERC20 token built from the ground up to facilitate payments and transfers without sacrificing your security.” The tweets have been taken down, but a screenshot of the tweets have...

Reddit Email Vulnerability results in Bitcoin Cash Embezzlement

January 10, 2018 by Akshay Makadiya at Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, Tech

The investigation of stolen Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from the hot wallets of community members of r/btc, a Reddit group that advocates bitcoin rival bitcoin cash, has concluded. The progress made in the inspection revealed that the hack was accomplished using the Tippr bot. The hacker used the defenseless third-party email...

Meltdown, Spectre, and Electrum: New Exploits everyone in Crypto should Care about

January 9, 2018 by Christoph Bergmann at Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, Tech

First Meltdown and Spectre, then a bug in the popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum; if you don’t take care for your software, you are in danger of losing coins. We explain, what the newly discovered bugs mean for a crypto user and some minimal measures with which you can protect yourself....

eBay Vendor sells Tampered Ledger Hardware Wallet, $33,000 worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen

January 8, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Tech

On January 6, 2017, a Reddit user posted an image to the bitcoin subforum containing a scratch-off card titled “Ledger recovery sheet” claiming that it was responsible for the loss of £25,000 ($33,860) worth of digital currency. According to another Reddit thread, where the image originally came from, the sheet...

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