USA seizes virtual currencies valued at $24 Million in major internet fraud investigation
The US Department of Justice has this week announced that it has seized virtual currency worth an estimated $24 million
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Bitcoin
Over $150M taken in KuCoin Crypto Exchange Hack
Over $150 million of KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange’s funds have been compromised in a security breach. KuCoin said in a statement that it
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Twitter gets hacked – powerful Twitter users are targeted by Bitcoin scammers
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked in an apparent Bitcoin scam. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos,
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InnfiRAT a new threat to Bitcoin and Crypto Wallets
InnfiRAT is a .NET-based remote access trojan primarily targeting cryptocurrency wallet data and related financial information. Zscaler ThreatLabZ team came
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Ransomware Emails Target Website Owners
We have been alerted to the following e-mail that is been sent to website owners requesting payment in Bitcoin. This
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Hackers Steal Bitcoins Worth $41m From Binance Exchange
Hackers have stolen $41m (£31m) worth of Bitcoin. The Binance exchange, which stores Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies for members, said
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China Wants To Ban Bitcoin Mining
According to the South China Morning Post the top economic planning body has proposed new rules that would see the
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Third-party JavaScript Abused To Steal Money From Cryptocurrency Exchange Users
Researchers at cyber security company ESET discovered that a website analytics platform was compromised in early November. Attackers were able to modify a JavaScript plugin used by websites to track visitor statistics. Although
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Growth In Cryptocurrency Scams
Numerous cryptocurrency scams have emerged since the rising price of some currencies, notably Bitcoin and Ethereum, made them highly lucrative.
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Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 Released
CVE-2018-17144 is a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, it includes
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