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...

Podcast: Why Bitcoin Miners Target Critical Infrastructure Networks

On this week’s Threatpost Podcast show, we sit down with Ronen Rabinovich from Cyberbit to discuss bitcoin mining on operational technology and critical infrastructure networks. Rabinovich talks about why the massive amount of computing power and lack of security and monitoring tools make...

PT-2020-8616 · Unknown +1 · Bitcoin Core +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.0 through 0.16.1 Bitcoin Knots versions 0.16.0 through 0.16.1 Description: The issue allows remote denial of service via a flood of multiple transaction inv messages with random hashes. This can also affect other...

BTC-e Operator, Accused of Laundering $4 Billion, to be Extradited to France

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Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The...

Sextortionists Shift Scare Tactics to Include Legit Passwords

A fresh take on the classic sextortion scam is making the rounds, with several reports confirming a new wrinkle in approach: The inclusion of a legitimate password in the email for the campaign. Multiple end users have received scam email messages from actors claiming to have taken over the...

Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords

Here's a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The message purports to have been sent from a hacker who's compromised your computer and used your webcam to record a video of you while you were watching porn. The missive threatens to release th...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert is able to block the special "final alert" which is supposed to override all other alerts because operations occur in the wrong order. This behavior occurs in the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016. This affects other uses of the...

CVE-2016-10725

In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert is able to block the special "final alert" which is supposed to override all other alerts because operations occur in the wrong order. This behavior occurs in the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016. This affects other uses of the...

Code injection

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...

CVE-2016-10724

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...

CVE-2016-10724

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...

CVE-2016-10725

In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert is able to block the special "final alert" which is supposed to override all other alerts because operations occur in the wrong order. This behavior occurs in the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016. This affects other uses of the...

CVE-2016-10725

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2016-10724

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...

CVE-2016-10725

In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert is able to block the special "final alert" which is supposed to override all other alerts because operations occur in the wrong order. This behavior occurs in the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016. This affects other uses of the...

CVE-2016-10724

CVE-2016-10724 affects Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 (and related forks such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814, plus many altcoins). The root cause is a memory-exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by the remote network alert system, enabled if an attacker can sign a mess...

CVE-2016-10725

In Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0, a non-final alert can block the final alert because operations occur in the wrong order. This affects the remote network alert system (deprecated since Q1 2016) and extends to other code paths such as Bitcoin Knots before v0.13.0.knots20160814 and many altcoins. Th...

CVE-2016-10724

Removed by vendor...

Free Thanatos Ransomware Decryption Tool Released

If your computer has been infected with Thanatos Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files—your search is over here. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a weakness in the Thanatos ransomware code that makes it possible f...