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Cyber-thieves from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago continue to cash out, this time transferring the equivalent of $4. 1 million in bitcoin to an unknown wallet address. Crypto tracking tool Whale Alert reports that hackers moved 416 bitcoin (BTC) on June 11.
2020-6-12 10:22 | |
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Another $800,000 worth of bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago has been moved to an unknown wallet. Whale Alert reports that hackers transferred 77. 64 bitcoin (BTC) on Tuesday, which amounts to $797,000 at the time the alert was issued.
2020-6-3 16:45 | |
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Cyber criminals keep moving Bitcoin they stole from hacking the major crypto exchange Bitfinex four years ago. Slightly under $1 mln was wired this time
2020-6-2 11:37 | |
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Hackers who stole $78 mln in Ether from the South Korea-based Upbit exchange have emerged again, this time transferring $1.2 mln in crypto - 5,798 ETH
2020-5-6 13:49 | |
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When cryptocurrencies were soaring in value in late 2017 to early 2018, crypto-jacking was all the rage with opportunistic hackers. Thankfully, it’s not been quite as popular in recent times, and recent findings might make it even less so.
2019-8-8 13:20 | |
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For quite some time now, there have been persistent rumors regarding Tor being deanonymized. Although it is a known fact the NSA is capable of doing so, albeit it remains to be seen if they will explore that option.
2019-7-21 05:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) up 2. 8 percent Hackers strike Bitpoint, user funds stolen Bitpoint is the latest Japanese exchange to lose customer funds through a hack. In an announcement, the exchange said it lost $32 million worth of Bitcoin, Litecoin and other coins stored in their hot wallet.
2019-7-12 21:00 | |
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Lake City, a small town in northern Florida, paid almost $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems. This is the second time in two weeks a Florida town has been a victim of a ransomware attack, bringing the total ransomware payment in the state to over $1 million.
2019-6-29 09:59 | |
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Binance Coin (BNB) under pressure, down 4. 2 percent Changpeng Zhao calls for caution After suffering an “expensive hack,” Changpeng Zhao considers exchange security as inviolable. Already fixed, Firefox could turned out to be a weak link from where hackers would have exploited Coinbase, causing loss of funds.
2019-6-27 20:00 | |
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The leaders of Lake City, a city of less than 70,000 people, located in central north Florida’s Columbia County, have paid the sum of 42 bitcoin (about $523k at press time ) to the hackers who orchestrated the catastrophic ransomware attack that totally crippled the area’s online processes two weeks ago, according to a ZDNetRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-27 05:00 | |
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Riviera Beach, a tiny city of roughly 35,000 people located just north of West Palm Beach in Miami, Florida, has been crippled by a deadly ransomware attack and the leaders of the city have agreed to cough out a whopping 65 bitcoin (over $650,000 at press time) to regain their files, according to a NewRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-23 21:00 | |
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With the use of AI growing in almost all areas of business and industry, we have a new problem to worry about – the “hijacking” of artificial intelligence. Hackers use the same techniques and systems that help us, to compromise our data, our security, and our lifestyle.
2019-6-22 17:00 | |
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Mozilla has patched its Firefox browser for a second time in response to a spearphishing campaign targeting employees of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, ZDNet reports. According to ZDNet, hackers have been attempting to phish Coinbase staff with emails containing links to malicious websites.
2019-6-21 15:08 | |
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Bitcoin‘s hash rate is skyrocketing, setting a new all-time-high and flying in the face of Facebook’s ambitious Libra cryptocurrency — a remarkably healthy sign for the world’s most popular blockchain.
2019-6-20 17:15 | |
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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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North Korean hackers have made a phishing attempt on users of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. News correspondents in Korea broke this development on May 29, 2019, detailing the ploy to steal Upbit users’ information.
2019-6-1 00:54 | |
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Hackers from North Korea are making headlines again, this time for going after the funds of users of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit. The hackers allegedly sent a phishing email to UpBit users earlier this week.
2019-5-31 11:29 | |
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Coinspeaker Perfect Online Privacy in 3 Simple StepsCrypto exchanges get hacked. Data vaults get breached. It’s just a matter of time when cryptos of those disregarding principles of online privacy will belong to hackers.
2019-5-30 14:56 | |
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By CCN: Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume, suffered a massive blow on May 7 when hackers ran away with 7,000 bitcoins. At the time, the total haul was valued at roughly $40 million.
2019-5-26 22:30 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Avoid Hacking Your Funds With Binance Less than a month ago the largest cryptocurrency exchange was the object of a hacking of seven thousand bitcoins, which at the time of the computer crime, amounted to almost $ 40 million dollars.
2019-5-22 21:21 | |
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A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact.
2019-5-19 18:00 | |
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The recent hack of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, highlights the need for heightened security in the crypto space. In what Wired reported as “a ‘large-scale security breach,’ hackers stole not only 7,000 bitcoin—equivalent to over $40 million ($56 million at the time of this writing, just one week later)—but also some user two-factor […] The post Three ways to prevent exchange hacks—how 3FA can foil cryptocurrency exchange robberies appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-5-16 17:22 | |
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There are lots of buzzwords out there — so many that it’s pretty easy to make up new ones and get others to start using them. Next time you’re introducing yourself to someone, just say you work as a Responsive Synergy Disruptor, and see their jaws drop in awe.
2019-5-13 15:13 | |
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It’s time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Here’s what happened. 1. Binance says it will resume deposits and withdrawals on its platform on Tuesday.
2019-5-13 10:58 | |
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Bitcoin continues to defy the odds, the critics, and the hackers, as the crypto world turns its attention to Consensus 2019 in New York. Despite a tumultuous week or two, the OG crypto looks more bullish than it has for a long time.
2019-5-11 20:02 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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In case you missed it, Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges on the planet was hacked this week to the tune of 7,000 Bitcoin, or over $41 million at the time of writing. In response to the hack, a suggestion to roll back the Bitcoin blockchain to “revenge” hackers and dissuade future attempts at.
2019-5-9 00:00 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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By CCN: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao discussed the idea of potentially reorganizing the Bitcoin blockchain. In this vision, the 7,000 BTC recently stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange would be redistributed to miners in the form of fees.
2019-5-8 18:51 | |
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Binance suffered what it’s calling a “large scale security breach” yesterday evening. The hackers were able to transfer 7,000 Bitcoin (over $40 million at the time of writing) in one transaction from the company’s hot wallet.
2019-5-8 11:17 | |
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Good morning. It’s Monday, so you know what that means. It’s time for Moonday Mornings, our wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. 1. Bitcoin extortionists have been wiping GitHub repositories and holding the data to ransom, Bleeping Computer reports.
2019-5-6 11:32 | |
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Hackers have been plaguing the cryptocurrency world for quite some time, often going through phishing schemes or similar scams. Cryptojacking, for example, is a process that involves hacking into a computer to mine Bitcoin without the user even knowing.
2019-4-30 19:59 | |
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Earlier this month, hackers accessed the emails of numerous Microsoft Outlook users after snatching the credentials of one of the company’s customer support reps. But now it turns out the hackers were also able to steal users’ cryptocurrency.
2019-4-30 11:44 | |
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Hackers convinced Twitter to give them control of the account for Sweden’s ruling political party – then used it to change the country’s official currency to Bitcoin. Swedish Government: ‘Time To Buy’ Bitcoin Speaking in an interview with local news outlet Trijo, one of the five hackers involved in the stunt this week said he did it because he thought socialism “was wrong.
2019-4-17 15:00 | |
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Swedes on Monday woke up to the news that the Twitter account of the country’s largest political party and the party currently holding the premiership, the Social Democrats, had been taken over by a hacker who used the short-lived opportunity to publish fake bitcoin news, according to Sveriges Television AB.
2019-4-15 15:36 | |
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Security breaches to online cryptocurrency exchange platforms is not new. Infact, many hackers specifically devote their time, energy and resources in targeting exchange with big assets to attack and this act calls for improved awareness and cryptographic innovations that would protect blockchain platforms from such malicious attacks. As encrypted as the blockchain system is, it […]
2019-4-5 01:05 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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It’s another week which means it’s time for another wrap up of the weekend’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Let’s get to it. 1. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been hacked for the third time in two years, reports ZDNet.
2019-4-1 10:51 | |
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It would appear the cryptocurrency exchange industry is far from drama-free at this time. Although there are numerous companies operating without problems, the same cannot be said for Bithumb. Once South Korea’s largest exchange, it has now become a seemingly prone target for hackers and criminals.
2019-3-30 15:55 | |
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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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TAGZ is Australia’s first fully licensed and regulated Dual Gateway Exchange based in Australia and registered with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Our focus is to protect our users by actively monitoring trading activity on our platform and saying goodbye to flash crashes, pump & dumps, spoofing, fake volume aswell as securing against possible data security breaches.
2019-3-28 10:35 | |
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The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.
2019-3-27 22:58 | |
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There have been several hackers that stole users’ spare computing power to mine virtual currencies. Other attackers targeted large websites and injected crypto mining software to steal users’ computing power when they were visiting the site.
2019-3-20 20:01 | |
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This is the third time hackers have transferred user funds from Cryptopia, analytical platform Elementus takes part in the investigation
2019-3-27 12:55 | |
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Bitfinex has recovered 27. 7 bitcoin stolen by hackers in August 2016, the company said on Monday. The coins, worth around $106,000 at the time of writing, represent only a small fraction of the total BTC stolen.
2019-2-25 21:00 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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On January 26, 2019, clients of peer-to-peer bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins were the targets of a phishing scam which resulted in the theft of a handful of bitcoins.
2019-1-31 18:40 | |
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Vecap is an ambitious and very simple project that ensures the security of a smart home network thanks to innovative blockchain technologies and smart contracts. Every action carried out on the Vecap platform will be recorded in an immutable and virtually invulnerable database – in order to crack it, the hacker would need to get administrator access to 51% of individual devices, which becomes absolutely impossible as the project spreads around the world.
2019-1-18 23:33 | |
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Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."
A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.
Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.