Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place

If cybersecurity consultants and IT admins have learned anything of the current threat environment, it's that ransomware will continue to be a pervasive and dangerous threat to individual users, enterprises and organizations at large. When they first emerged, these infections were unlike anything...

PT-2020-8672

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt versions prior to 0.17.1 Description: The issue allows injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call. Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.17.1, update to version 0.17.1 or later to resolve the iss...

MGASA-2018-0415 Updated bitcoin packages fix security vulnerability

Remote denial of service application crash exploitable by miners via duplicate input CVE-2018-17144...

Updated bitcoin packages fix security vulnerability

Remote denial of service application crash exploitable by miners via duplicate input CVE-2018-17144...

Sextortion emails: They’re probably not watching you

Back in July, Krebs on Security reported on a rather novel scam, where the threat actor would use credentials from old data dumps to suggest that they had directly hacked the victim and obtained the victim's presumably sensitive browser history. Stolen credentials aside, sex-based extortion scams...

City Pays $2K in Ransomware, Stirs ‘Never Pay’ Debate

The city of West Haven, Conn. made the hard choice to pay cyberattackers a $2,000 ransom after being hit with malware that ground their operations to a halt. West Haven said that its City Hall offices were the victim of a ransomware attack, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security determine...

bitcoin.co.id XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-689701 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bitcoin.co.id Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden...

Who Is Agent Tesla?

A powerful, easy-to-use password stealing program known as Agent Tesla has been infecting computers since 2014, but recently this malware strain has seen a surge in popularity -- attracting more than 6,300 customers who pay subscription fees to license the software. Although Agent Tesla includes ...

Apple Data Downloads, A Dating App for Trump Fans, and More Security News This Week

North Korean bitcoin theft, Fake FCC complaints, and more security news this week...

French Dark-Web Drug Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in US Prison

A dark web drugs kingpin who was arrested last year when he arrived in the United States to compete in the World Beard and Mustache Championships has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola sentenced 36-year-old French national Gal Vallerius, aka...

Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty – Could Face Up to 20 Years in Prison

An Irish national who helped run the now-defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road pleaded guilty on Friday to drug trafficking charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Gary Davis , also known as Libertas, was one of the site administrators and forum moderators for Silk Road,...

openSUSE Security Update : bitcoin (openSUSE-2018-1098)

This update for bitcoin to version 0.16.3 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-17144: Prevent remote denial of service application crash exploitable by miners via duplicate input bsc1108992. For additional changes please check the changelog. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for bitcoin (openSUSE-SU-2018:3001-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for bitcoin (important)

This update for bitcoin to version 0.16.3 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-17144: Prevent remote denial of service application crash exploitable by miners via duplicate input bsc1108992. For additional changes please check the changelog...

Hackers exploit Bitcoin bug to print 235 million Pigeoncoins

By Uzair Amir It has been confirmed by the Pigeoncoin developers that a recently discovered bug in Bitcoin’s code has now been exploited to print approx. 235m Pigeoncoins $15,458. It must be noted that Pigeoncoin is a newly launched and somewhat lesser known digital currency. The reason the...

Fortnite gamers targeted by data theft malware

The new season of the incredibly popular video game Fortnite is upon us, and so too are the scams. It’s no surprise that con artists would jump on this bandwagon, eager to peddle their fakeouts. Only this time, scammers had something a little more dangerous in mind than your typical low-level...

Dark Web Azorult Generator Offers Free Binaries to Cybercrooks

A malicious build-it-yourself platform for the Azorult info-stealing malware has debuted on the Dark Web. The online builder, which its authors have named Gazorp, allows cybercriminals to generate their very own strains of Azorult, along with the apparatus to control it. And, it’s free. “Threat...

FreeBSD : bitcoin -- Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation (40a844bf-c430-11e8-96dc-000743165db0)

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 wel...

Brave Software: Field Day With Protocol Handlers

Summary ===================== When launching a protocol such as mailto:, SEARCH:, or bitcoin:, Brave only asks to allow the protocol to be opened by an external application. You can select on whether or not to remember the decision or not and to allow or deny it. The issue is that upon selecting...

Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability

The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is usually known as the most hack-proof and secure blockchain. The DDoS vulnerability, identified as...