CVE-2018-17144

Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service application crash exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash...

PT-2018-13924

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.x through 0.14.2 Bitcoin Core versions 0.15.x through 0.15.1 Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.x through 0.16.2 Bitcoin Knots versions 0.14.x through 0.16.2 Description: The issue allows a remote denial of service, which c...

Greece U-Turns — Now Approves Mr. Bitcoin's Extradition To Russia

Greece just took another U-turn. Mr. Bitcoin a.k.a. Alexander Vinnik is not going to France nor to the United States; instead, he is now possibly going to his homeland Russia. The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece on Friday has overruled previous decisions and approved to extradite the...

bitcoin -- Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation

Bitcoin Core reports: CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. It was originally reported to several developers working on Bitcoin Core, as well...

Canadian town forced to pay Bitcoin after nasty ransomware attack

By Uzair Amir The town of Midland, Ontario, Canada, has decided to pay cybercriminals after its servers were targeted and infected with a nasty ransomware on Saturday, September 1, at approximately 2 a.m. The total amount of ransom payment has not been disclosed but the demand from cybercriminals...

Datasploit - An OSINT Framework To Perform Various Recon Techniques On Companies, People, Phone Number, Bitcoin Addresses, Etc., Aggregate All The Raw Data, And Give Data In Multiple Formats

Overview of the tool: Performs OSINT on a domain/email/username/phone and find out information from different sources. Correlate and collaborate the results, show them in a consolidated manner. Tries to find out credentials, api-keys, tokens, subdomains, domain history, legacy portals, etc. relat...

August 30, 2018—KB4343891 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Alleged SIM Swapper Arrested in California

Authorities in Santa Clara, Calif. have arrested and charged a 19-year-old area man on suspicion hijacking mobile phone numbers as part of a scheme to steal large sums of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The arrest is the third known law enforcement action this month targeting "SIM swappers,"...

FTC Issues Alert on Bitcoin Blackmail Scams

The Federal Trade Commission has released an alert on Bitcoin blackmail scams. In these schemes, scammers threaten victims with public disclosure of their "secret" unless they send a payment in Bitcoin. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to refer to the FTC Alert and a related FBI press...

Bitcoin Red Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Bitcoin Red BTCR is an Ether-based digital currency. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'distributeBTR' function in BTCR's smart contract implementation. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to increase the balance of their own account...

Integer overflow

An integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation for Bitcoin Red BTCR, an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows the owner to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a large address array, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the...

CVE-2018-11687

An integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation for Bitcoin Red BTCR, an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows the owner to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a large address array, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the...

CVE-2018-11687

An integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation for Bitcoin Red BTCR, an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows the owner to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a large address array, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2018-11687

An integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation for Bitcoin Red BTCR, an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows the owner to accomplish an unauthorized increase of digital assets by providing a large address array, as exploited in the wild in May 2018, aka the...

PGA Golf Championship hit with Bitcoin ransomware

By Waqas Hackers Demand Ransom to Unlock Hijacked Files of Upcoming PGA Golf Championship. Hackers seem to have a penchant for targeting high-profile events. After successfully attempting to make American presidential elections questionable, now cybercriminals have their eyes set on key PGA...

This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...

Cyber Criminals selling Bitcoin ATM Malware on Dark Web

By Uzair Amir Trend Micro researchers have discovered a malware listing on Dark Web marketplace that lets attackers steal from Bitcoin ATMs. They can easily rake in cryptocurrency worth 6,750 in Euros, Pounds or Dollars by attacking the ATMs. The listing was perhaps created on June 25, 2018. It i...

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County...

Ethernet place the JSON-RPC Interface to a variety of stolen currency technique big secret-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In 2010, Laszlo the use of 10,000 bitcoin to buy a $ 25 pizza is considered bitcoin in the real world in the first transaction. In 2017, the block chain technology as the digital currency's price soared and standing on the air above. Who could have imagined that in 2010 that two pieces of pizza,...

SamSam Ransomware Attacks Extorted Nearly $6 Million

Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revealed that the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from its victims since December 2015, when the cyber gang behind the ransomware started...