Travelex Pays $2.3M in Bitcoin to Hackers Who Hijacked Network in January

Travelex has paid out $2.3 million in Bitcoin to hackers to regain access to its global network after a malware attack at the new year knocked the global currency exchange offline and crippled its business during the month of January. The move—reported by the Wall Street Journal—may seem...

Bisq Bitcoin exchange halts trade due to critical vulnerability

By Deeba Ahmed The Bitcoin exchange further stated that users must disable the recently added alert key function... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bisq Bitcoin exchange halts trade due to critical vulnerability...

Coronavirus Bitcoin scam promises “millions” working from home

In the last week, we’ve seen multiple coronavirus scams pushed by bad actors, including RAT attacks via fake health advisories, bogus e-books working in tandem with Trojans, and lots of other phishing shenanigans. Now we have another one to add to the ever-growing list: dubious coronavirus Bitcoi...

Coronavirus extortion scam threatens to infect victim’s family

By Sudais Asif The new Coronavirus extortion scam asks for $4000 in Bitcoin or scammers will infect the victim's family with the virus. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Coronavirus extortion scam threatens to infect victim's family...

Bitcoin Core Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Bitcoin Core is an open source client for verifying the validity of blockchain transactions. A security vulnerability exists in versions of Bitcoin Core prior to 0.14 that stems from an automated system that relies solely on SPV proofs to validate transactions. An attacker could exploit the...

CVE-2017-12842

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

CVE-2017-12842

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

CVE-2017-12842

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

Design/Logic Flaw

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

CVE-2017-12842

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

CVE-2017-12842

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 is vulnerable to an SPV proof manipulation flaw. An attacker can craft an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim’s SPV wallet even if the payment never occurred, potentially misleading the wallet into accepting non-existent transactions. The attack cost is d...

CVE-2017-12842

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2017-12842: Improper Input Validation

Bitcoin Core before 0.14 allows an attacker to create an ostensibly valid SPV proof for a payment to a victim who uses an SPV wallet, even if that payment did not actually occur. Completing the attack would cost more than a million dollars, and is relevant mainly only in situations where an...

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt and Bitcoin Bitcoind are both products of the Bitcoin organization.Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt is a bitcoin client developed using QT.Bitcoin Bitcoind is an interface-less bitcoin client. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.15.1. The...

Unspecified vulnerability in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt (CNVD-2021-27992)

Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt and Bitcoin Bitcoind are both products of the Bitcoin organization.Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt is a bitcoin client developed using QT.Bitcoin Bitcoind is an interface-less bitcoin client. A security vulnerability exists in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.10.2, which can be...

Unspecified Vulnerabilities in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt

Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt and Bitcoin Bitcoind are both products of the Bitcoin organization.Bitcoin Bitcoin-qt is a bitcoin client developed using QT.Bitcoin Bitcoind is an interface-less bitcoin client. A security vulnerability exists in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.17.1, which can be...

CVE-2017-18350

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name...

CVE-2017-18350

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name...

CVE-2015-3641

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service disabled functionality such as a client application crash via an "Easy" attack...

Stack overflow

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name...