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While privacy may be the forte of cryptocurrencies like Monero [XMR] and Zcash [ZEC], sometimes things might get a little too private. Earlier this week, the Monero community woke up to the cryptoverse’s collective angst after several security flaws in the private coin came to the fore.
2019-7-6 11:30 | |
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Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed by Monero, including one that could have been exploited to steal xmr from exchanges
2019-7-6 15:57 | |
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Monero developers have revealed nine security flaws, and one of them can be exploited to steal XMR from cryptocurrency exchanges. Two critical Monero bugs discovered “By mining a specially crafted block, that still passes daemon verification an attacker can create a miner transaction that appears to the wallet to include sum of XMR picked by […] The post Scary Monero Flaw Patched to Kill Crypto Exchange Theft Threat appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-5 13:19 | |
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Privacy-focused altcoin Monero has suddenly disclosed nine security vulnerabilities — including one that could have allowed hackers to steal XMR from cryptocurrency exchanges. Until March, rogue Monero miners were hypothetically able to create “specifically-crafted” blocks to force Monero wallets into accepting fake deposits for an XMR amount chosen by the attacker.
2019-7-4 18:18 | |
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Hackers have planted cryptocurrency mining malware on the computers of the Ukrainian State Judicial Administration (SJA), secretly minting privacy-centric monero (XMR) altcoin for over six months, reports Finance Magnates on June 24, 2019.
2019-6-25 21:00 | |
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We’ve seen cryptocurrency hungry hackers hiding mining malware in Adobe Flash updates, and even in legitimate Windows updates, but now hackers are hiding it in cracked audio production software.
2019-6-20 16:42 | |
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It seems we can’t go more than a week without news of a new cryptocurrency mining malware or botnet being discovered. This time, security researchers have uncovered another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China.
2019-6-13 16:02 | |
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Security researchers have identified yet another cryptocurrency mining malware. This time it’s installing itself on enterprise application servers, and using a clever trick to remain hidden. If that wasn’t enough, the malware has already claimed its first major victim: Oracle servers.
2019-6-11 13:22 | |
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Chief Scientist at nChain, Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto and a Bitcoin SV proponent, Craig S. Wright, recently released an article in which he questions the security and privacy traits of Monero XMR.
2019-6-8 00:33 | |
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Eight different security exploits are employed by a malware dubbed BlackSquid to infect web servers and install mining software
2019-6-4 16:43 | |
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With the infamous cryptocurrency mining script Coinhive now offline, you’d be forgiven for thinking crypto-jacking was a thing of the past. Sadly though, security researchers have uncovered a new malware family that’s attacking hardware to get it to secretly mine cryptocurrency.
2019-6-4 15:50 | |
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When It Comes To Security, Bitcoin [BTC] Is as Vulnerable As Monero [XMR] Says Monero Dev In a recent talk dubbed, Monero Talk, held on YouTube by host, Douglas Tuman, Monero’s developer, Jethro Grassie spoke of both the giant crypto and Monero.
2019-6-1 20:15 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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In an exclusive report to TechCrunch, Boston-based security firm, Threat Stack, revealed the discovery of a new variation of the Shellbot malware that was capable of breaking into crypto miners’ computers and using their resources to mine cryptocurrencies.
2019-5-3 09:00 | |
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Breaking: Monero’s Transaction Count Is Currently At Its All-Time High Right Now Privacy coin Monero [XMR] — that is designed to not only provide users with a high level of security but also comes laden with a structural framework that allows it to scale-up as and when required — has just recorded its all-time high […]
2019-5-2 19:32 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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Security breaches in the cryptocurrency space have been a common phenomenon, with several attacks having occurred over the past couple of months and resulting in the loss of cryptocurrencies worth millions.
2019-4-25 17:30 | |
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Earlier today, Riccardo Spagni aka FluffyPony, the lead maintainer of Monero, spoke about the SEC’s guidance on tokens being classified as securities, in an interview with Monero Talk. Spagni particularly spoke about whether Monero can be classified as a security.
2019-4-5 23:00 | |
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Белые хакеры обнаружили баги в системах крупных стартапов. Восемь из них приходятся на блокчейн OmiseGo, остальные 12 уязвимостей найдены в Augur, Monero, ICON, Stellar, crypto. com и Robinhood. Hackers fix 20 security flaws in cryptocurrency-related platforms in 2 weeks https://t.
2019-4-1 10:49 | |
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Cryptocurrency platforms have taken to offering bounties to hackers recently, as they challenge white-hat hackers to test out their security, investigating for bugs and vulnerabilities in their system.
2019-3-29 00:09 | |
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White-hat hackers continue to rid blockchain projects of their bugs, having earned a minimum of $7,400 for fixing security flaws in popular cryptocurrency platforms like Monero and Stellar. Seven cryptocurrency-related projects dished out rewards to blockchain hackers for finding and patching 20 software bugs in the past two weeks (between March 14 and 28), according to HackerOne data reviewed by Hard Fork.
2019-3-28 20:27 | |
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Earlier this week, Binance Research released a report on the implications of the Monero hard fork, which occurred on March 9. On one hand, the research provided a detailed report on the privacy and security update that went live during the upgrade, while on the other hand, the report concentrated on ASIC miners and the […] The post Monero’s [XMR] hashrate drop by over 70% slightly increases ‘risk of a 51% attack’ appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-3-27 13:30 | |
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Japanese regulators have reportedly approved draft amendments to the country's financial instruments and payment services laws, introducing stricter regulations for margin trading of digital assets.
2019-3-21 21:27 | |
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White hat hackers have found more than 40 bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms in the past 30 days, according to an investigation by Hard Fork. There is a silver lining though: none of the vulnerabilities appear to be particularly serious at first glance.
2019-3-14 19:17 | |
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As per an all new report released by Imperva — a security research firm— crypto miners have been “exploiting hundreds of fragile Docker hosts” associated with the Monero project. As a result of this, many XMR based transactions are being obscured and all of the intrinsic data related to these tx’s is becoming nearly impossible […]
2019-3-14 18:41 | |
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Monero successfully completed a scheduled protocol upgrade (hard fork) on Mar. 9th. The upgrade includes tweaks to the PoW algorithm for better ASIC-resistance, changes to mitigate big bang attacks, and increased transaction homogeneity to further improve privacy.
2019-3-10 00:53 | |
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Security bugs can make or break any form of software or project. Cryptocurrencies are no exception in this regard. Various bugs and exploits have been discovered and addressed in recent years. The Monero developers will address another issue in a future update.
2019-3-4 12:06 | |
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Специализирующаяся на кибербезопасности компания Symantec обнаружила в Microsoft Store для Windows восемь приложений со встроенной усовершенствованной версией Coinhive, скрипта для скрытого майнинга криптовалюты Monero.
2019-2-15 19:07 | |
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Network fundamentals and cyber security reports suggest that all XMR statistics have been heavily influenced by a significant uptick in mining malware.
2019-1-22 14:01 | |
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According to a January 17, 2019, press release from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, a threat intelligence team, a Linux mining malware developed by Rocke group has advanced to uninstall cloud security products from Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud to illegally mine Monero (XMR) on compromised machines.
2019-1-19 15:00 | |
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In an apparent first, a relatively new form of malware uninstalls security programs to avoid detection and mine crypto on cloud servers.
2019-1-18 15:00 | |
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In a move to curb illegal blockchain transactions, The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a call for technical solutions that can track anonymous cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero.
2018-12-11 15:00 | |
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INTRODUCTION We want to build an exchange website known as Bittrader where many coins will be listed and the main pair will be the TRD Coin. Similar to Binance, some of the notable features of Bittrader include strong security, privacy, and untraceable features.
2018-12-11 09:03 | |
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A pre-solicitation document published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), on November 30, 2018, hints that the U. S. authorities might be on their way to deanonymize private cryptocurrency transactions.
2018-12-5 08:00 | |
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The crypto-jacking epidemic continues this week with news that 415,000 routers have been infected with crypto mining malware. The targeted routers were quietly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency without alerting users.
2018-12-5 02:50 | |
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Zcash and Monero are specifically mentioned.
2018-12-5 23:17 | |
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If you thought you were safe using privacy coins like Zcash and Monero you might want to think again. It appears that the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) is looking to develop forensic analysis techniques for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero, according to a pre-solicitation document spotted by The Block.
2018-12-4 15:19 | |
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The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has put out a pre-solicitation request for tracing private transactions and performing blockchain analytics on cryptocurrencies, such as Zcash and Monero.
2018-12-4 01:35 | |
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While the cryptocurrency community is still trying to adjust to government’s idea of regulating cryptocurrencies and monitoring blockchain based transactions, the United States Government has taken the war further by seeking to trace and monitor transactions using privacy coins.
2018-12-4 00:20 | |
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A pre-solicitation published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asks about conducting forensic analysis on privacy coins like zcash and monero.
2018-12-3 21:01 | |
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A pre-solicitation published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asks about conducting forensic analysis on privacy coins like zcash and monero.
2018-12-4 21:01 | |
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McAfee Labs has announced the discovery of WebCobra, a Russian coin mining malware which explores victim’s computing power. Security researcher Kapil Khade also found that a correlation between the prevalence of miner malware and changes in the price of Monero (XMR).
2018-11-15 23:00 | |
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Cory Johnson Discusses XRP, Ripple’s Native Crypto Asset Since Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s first blockchain-backed cryptocurrency, was deemed a non-security by U. S. regulators, discussion has raged regarding the legal status of other prominent crypto assets, such as Ripple’s XRP, Ethereum (ETH), or Monero (XMR).
2018-10-31 04:30 | |
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The recent update of the Monero blockchain seems destined to be one of the most important for the community. Not only does Beryllium Bullet -the name given to the hard fork- improve the levels of anonymity and security but it is also a powerful tool in the future adoption of XMR by optimizing its mining […] The post Monero Fees Drop to 0.
2018-10-28 23:13 | |
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Monero developers seem to be working hard to make the Bulletproof protocol really live up to its name. After the security research company QuarksLab audited the Bulletproof protocol and announced its findings, the developers rushed to solve them all.
2018-10-24 18:24 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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QuarksLab, a security research company entrusted with auditing Monero’s Bulletproof protocol, announced its findings Oct 22, 2018. Eight Critical issues, along with two medium-impact vulnerabilities, and 20 low-impact concern/vulnerabilities were found.
2018-10-23 21:59 | |
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