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...

CVE-2018-11687: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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...

PT-2018-10748

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bitcoin Red BTCR affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the distributeBTR function of a smart contract implementation. This allows the owner to increase digital assets unauthorized by providi...

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...

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...