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Hacker Noon is publishing article annotations onto its new blockchain to save costs and storage space.
2020-1-23 18:00 | |
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Criminals who distributed the Sodinokibi ransomware threat earned a huge payday from victims who paid the requested Bitcoin ransom. According to researchers at McAfee, who tracked down several posts published on underground forums, one particular distributor made the equivalent of $287,499 in Bitcoin in just 72 hours.
2019-10-14 17:00 | |
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The West Virginia Secretary of State disclosed the attempted hack occurred during the 2018 election cycle.
2019-10-9 18:00 | |
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A privileged United Nations report confirms what everybody was suspecting so far: North Korea has been funding their nuclear program through orchestrated cyber-attacks from hacker groups set up and funded by the government.
2019-8-6 17:00 | |
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Eliyahu Gigi, a notorious Israeli hacker who allegedly stole NIS 6. 1 million ($1. 7 million) in bitcoin (BTC) ether (ETH) and other altcoins from foreign citizens through illegal means, has been indicted by Israeli authorities, reports local news source Globes on July 18, 2019.
2019-7-19 01:00 | |
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Binance hackers are moving stolen funds from the recent Binance hack. Two transactions coming from one of the hacker’s wallet were tracked on July 8, 2019. The transactions had a combined value of over $8 million – nearly 10 percent of the digital loot.
2019-7-10 23:00 | |
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Last year Hacker Noon reported, “In 2017, sales of virtual goods raked in more than $80 billion of total gaming industry revenue of $103 billion. ” And some of these virtual goods have sold for a pretty penny.
2019-6-28 17:13 | |
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Hackers have hijacked the official Twitter handle of Tesco, a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with over 3,400 stores scattered across the globe. The bad actors tried to orchestrate a bitcoin (BTC) giveaway scam with the account without much success, according to a BleepingComputer report from June 25, 2019.
2019-6-27 13:00 | |
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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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Cryptopia Hacker Still Moving Stolen Funds Around Recently, Cryptopia hit the news officially announcing that it had chosen Grant Thornton as official liquidators to begin its liquidation process. This was as a result of the hacks suffered by the New Zealand crypto currency exchange, causing it to lose at least $16 million. About a week […]
2019-5-22 18:44 | |
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Hackers Are Making A Big Profit Off The Crypto Industry, Fixing Bugs In Popular Platforms Hackers have been paid over $32,000 for their exposure of vulnerabilities in crypto platforms since March 28th.
2019-5-21 22:15 | |
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Recently, a poster on Hacker News seemingly took the position that blockchain: “is the world’s worst database, created entirely to maintain the reputation of venture capital firms.” A recent article on CoinDesk countered, arguing that: “blockchains are useful for storing shared state, particularly when that shared state represent valuable data that users want to export/import […]
2019-5-19 01:55 | |
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A group of six hackers by the name “The Community” are to be sentenced to more than 20 years each in prison for stealing more than $2. 4 million worth of cryptocurrencies using multiple SIM swap attacks, Independent IE reported May 13, 2019.
2019-5-14 05:00 | |
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By CCN: Binance has posted an update about the security breach which cost the exchange around $40 million worth of bitcoins. Binance CEO Throws Dirty Words Like “Reorg” The message is a personal message from CEO Changpeng Zhao, who makes a few confessions during the post.
2019-5-10 16:36 | |
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The TRON Foundation has announced that a critical vulnerability was found by a white hat hacker, which could have… The post Researchers Find Critical Vulnerability in TRON Which Could Crash Its $1.
2019-5-7 18:48 | |
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While cyber attacks link cryptojacking and fingerprinting have become known to the masses, software supply chain attacks are also fast gaining momentum. In the latest, Barium, the mysterious Chinese-speaking cyberpunks orchestrating such attacks are advancing with each passing day, according to a Wired report on May 3, 2019.
2019-5-6 21:00 | |
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Analysts Flip Bullish En-Masse Predicting Bitcoin’s Price to Jump Above $7,000 BTC/USD Analysts Flip Bullish En-Masse Predicting Bitcoin's Price to Jump Above $7,000 BTC/USD Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data Evaluating the US’ […]
2019-5-5 01:11 | |
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There are at least 732 weak private keys on the Ethereum blockchain alone which are being exploited by a “blockchain bandit”, who has amassed almost 45,000 ETH at this point. Learn more in our interview with security researchers who found him
2019-4-28 13:43 | |
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By CCN: Years ago, a thief had a simple idea: figure out a way to guess Ethereum private keys and write software to sweep the crypto funds from the blockchain. Guessing the 72-character private key is no small feat – your odds are about 1 in 115 quattuorvigintillion.
2019-4-23 20:30 | |
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Guessing a private key is meant to be statistically improbable, but a report has found that one hacker has managed to do just this and steal 45,000 ETH from multiple accounts
2019-4-23 15:56 | |
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According to an article published by Wired on April 18, 2019, a mystery hacker group for the last month has been divulging Iran’s top-level hackers’ secret data, tools, and personal identities onto a public Telegram channel.
2019-4-23 17:00 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency related crimes are something heard about in a very scarce quantity. But this week, TheNextWeb uncovered the sentencing of a 37-year-old man from in the United States under charges of fraud and cybercrime, for which he was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Where this relates to Bitcoin is […]
2019-4-10 21:32 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry has been likened to the Wild West, when bandits robbed banks, taverns, and coaches for gold,… The post Study Shows One Hacker Group Is Responsible For More Than Half of Crypto Hacks Since 2017 — Who Are They? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-28 19:41 | |
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In this edition of The Daily we cover a planned U. S. regulated cryptocurrency exchange from Riot Blockchain, the arrest of a hacker in Japan who allegedly stole 15 million yen of monacoin, and a couple of new investors in Coinflex.
2019-3-17 15:01 | |
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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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A former “ethical hacker” with a number of high-profile institutions plans to host a blockchain security demonstration live at South By South West (SXSW) 2019. According to a press release, Rob Pope, currently of Dogtown Media and formerly a security specialist with HSBC and Barclays, will present on the weaknesses of various encrypted systems associated.
2019-3-14 02:00 | |
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It would seem that there are a number of unresolved issues with Trezor’s wallets as Ledger has revealed in a post dated March 11, 2019, which outlines five major vulnerabilities in their competitor’s product.
2019-3-13 20:00 | |
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An unidentified hacker on February 22, 2019, made away with 2. 09 million EOS worth about $7. 7 million after a new active EOS Block Producer failed to update the mainnet account blacklist – typically, a decentralized platform should not be vulnerable to a single point of failure – but EOS seems to be wired in aRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-1 14:00 | |
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Cybersecurity firm JASK Inc. published a study on February 5, 2019, detailing the wave of cryptojacking attacks in November 2018 that mined privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) on target user’s computer system.
2019-2-7 21:00 | |
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While U. S. investors are waiting for a bitcoin ETF to be approved, American financial regulators are looking to make the market more transparent. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking a service that will identify the owners of wallet addresses for multiple cryptocurrencies.
2019-2-4 02:15 | |
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According to a Wall Street Journal report on January 28, 2019, Chainalysis, a New York-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) firm has revealed that two expert hacker groups may be responsible for at least $1 billion in cryptocurrency exchange heists so far.
2019-1-30 02:00 | |
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Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, recently created a report on the cryptocurrency scams that are in the marketplace. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on this report, which indicated that there are two hacker groups that are believed to have stolen $1 billion in cryptocurrency.
2019-1-29 23:40 | |
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A report outlined by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis reveals that two hacker groups account have reportedly stolen $1 billion in cryptocurrency
2019-1-28 20:30 | |
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It’s Monday Morning, you should know how this works by now. Dive in for a wrap up of the weekend’s blockchain and cryptocurrency news. 1. Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading website, Localbitcoins.
2019-1-28 12:35 | |
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Mastercard filed the most global blockchain patents out of all US firms in 2017, a new report has found. The news comes in the same week that EU regulators fined the card provider $650M for restricting competition.
2019-1-26 20:57 | |
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Blockchains are everywhere, we get it. But did you know blockchain is now powering a little toy train? Dutch hacker/dad Roeland P Lanparty has turned his son’s LEGO Duplo toy into a literal STEEM train.
2019-1-24 18:09 | |
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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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Ethereum Classic has issued an important update on the events of last week. Over the past several days, the project has gradually admitted that recent suspicious blockchain activity was indeed caused by a malicious attacker.
2019-1-16 23:55 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, a video gamer streaming on Twitch has received crypto donations totaling over $70,000 and a hacker believed to be behind the 51 percent attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain has reportedly returned $100,000 in ETC coins.
2019-1-14 14:15 | |
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The hacker or organization responsible for the 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic blockchain returned 100k USD worth in tokens. According to an article published in the official blog of the cryptocurrency Exchange Gate.
2019-1-13 09:16 | |
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Cybercriminal group “The Dark Overlord” has threatened to publicly release confidential files related to the 9/11 attacks if their ransom demands are not met, reports Motherboard on January 1, 2019. 9/11 Secrets up for Sale The hacker group tweeted on December 31, 2018, about their successful breach of the confidential database of law firms handling cases related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2019-1-3 00:00 | |
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A hacker group called The Dark Overlord threatened to release insurance files related to the 9/11 attacks on New Year’s Eve. The group noted that they had received the files after breaching the security of a law firm handling cases related to the Twin Tower terrorist attack.
2019-1-2 15:29 | |
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The Australian government has passed a controversial anti-encryption bill that allows law authorities to forcefully access sensitive consumer data encrypted by popularly-used technology companies and social applications, reported The Hacker News on December 10, 2018.
2018-12-11 20:00 | |
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A hacker with access to a popular open-source Javascript Library has sneaked malicious code that steals Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Funds stored in BitPay Copay wallets. According to ZDNet’s article published on November 26, 2018, the Copay team mentioned that all version between 5.
2018-11-28 12:00 | |
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SIM swap hacks are becoming very common in the cryptocurrency space. In a recent case, a hacker was able to steal cryptocurrency worth $1 million from a San Francisco-based victim. The 21-year-old hacker also hacked into the phones of numerous Silicon Valley executives.
2018-11-22 19:29 | |
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In a method known as “SIM swapping,” 21-year-old hacker Nicholas Truglia stole $1 million from a San Francisco executive and hacked the phones of a number of other Silicon Valley and blockchain executives.
2018-11-22 16:00 | |
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The recent victim to a cryptojacking attack is U. S. -based non-profit organization Make-A-Wish Foundation’s website. Since March 2018, the hacker has been taking advantage of the Drupal vulnerability to mine Monero cryptocurrency, as per research findings from an independent research lab.
2018-11-21 12:00 | |
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2018-10-25 04:33 | |
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Global losses from hacker attacks in 2018 amounted to $1. 8 billion, which exceeds the amount of losses for the period from 2011 to 2017. A sizeable share of victims are investors and users in the field of cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology, the commercial value of which will increase to almost $180 billion by 2025.
2018-10-18 23:00 | |
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