Atrax Kit Boasts Tor Connectivity, Bitcoin Extraction

Yet another commercial crimekit has been spotted making the rounds on the underground malware forums that uses the anonymity network Tor to stealthily communicate with its command and control servers. While it isn’t the first of its kind to use Tor, the kit, nicknamed Atrax, is cheap and comes wi...

Danish Bitcoin exchange BIPS hacked and 1,295 Bitcoins worth $1 Million Stolen

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The Silk Road Founder financially linked to Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

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US police department pays $750 Ransom to retrieve their files from CryptoLocker Malware

The CryptoLocker Malware continues to spread, infected more than 12,000 U.S computers in one week and threatening millions of computers in the UK. Just last week, The UK National Crime Agency urge people afflicted by CryptoLocker not to pay ransom, not least because there is no guarantee that the...

Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations

The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...

How to protect your computer from CryptoLocker ransomware malware ?

CryptoLocker is an especially insidious form of Ransomeware malware that was first detected in the wild in September 2013, restricts access to infected computers and requires victims to pay a ransom in order to regain full access. What makes CryptoLocker so bad is the way it encrypts the user dat...

CryptoLocker Spam Campaign Targets Millions in UK

Tens of millions of online banking customers in the U.K. are the targets of a dangerous spam campaign enticing users to open an attachment containing the CryptoLocker ransomware. The U.K.’s National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit posted an advisory late last week warning people to be...

Warning: 10 Million UK Users targeted with Cryptolocker Ransomware spam email campaign

The UK's National Crime Agency has given out an urgent national alert that a mass spamming event targeting 10 million UK based email users with a piece of malware called CryptoLocker that encrypts your files and then demands a ransom money to restore access. The agency has said that the people wh...

Bitcash.cz Bitcoin Exchange hacked; Money from 4000 Bitcoin wallets Stolen

Another Bitcoin Exchange hacked! Bitcash. CZ based out of the Czech Republic has been hacked and Money from 4000 Bitcoin wallets have been Stolen, value of over 2 million Czech Koruna i.e. Approx $100,000. Bitcash.cz is currently down with a maintenance message that on the evening of November 11,...

Bitcash.cz Bitcoin Exchange hacked; Money from 4000 Bitcoin wallets Stolen

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Bitcoin Selfish Miners

While researchers and academics are just at the beginning of the process of trying to judge the value of a recent paper on a vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol, some are arguing that there is a smaller point that’s being missed in all of the back and forth: There is a problem with the...

Bitcoin Researcher Says It's 'Folly' to Ignore New Attack

The author of a paper that describes a new attack on the Bitcoin protocol says that criticisms of the paper are misguided and that there are serious problems with Bitcoin that need to be addressed. Ermin Gun Sirer, a professor at Cornell, published the paper earlier this week along with his...

millions stolen in Bitcoin heist

More trouble for Bitcoin this week after an Australian wallet service admitted that attackers broke into their systems and made off with more than $1.2 million worth of the the digital crypto-currency. The theft comes on the coat-tails of a contentious research paper claiming that a...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Bug Bounties, Bitcoin and the Apple Report

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the major stories from the last couple of weeks, including the changes to the Microsoft bug bounty program, the new Internet bug bounty, the Apple transparency report and a new paper on a weakness in Bitcoin. Download: digitalunderground133.mp3...

Questions Arise About Bitcoin Security Paper

In the wake of the publication of a new academic paper that says there is a fundamental flaw in the Bitcoin protocol that could allow a small cartel of participants to become powerful enough that it could take over the mining process and gather a disproportionate amount of the value in the system...

US-CERT Warns of More CryptoLocker Ransomware Infections

CryptoLocker is a devious evolution of now-familiar ransomware schemes in which the malware encrypts files it finds on a number of network resources and demands a ransom for the decryption key. US-CERT issued an advisory today warning businesses and consumers of the risks presented by CryptoLocke...

CryptoLocker developer launches Decryption Service website; 10 Bitcoins for Decryption Keys

A long-running ransomware known as CryptoLocker is continuing to lock victims out of their files and demand payment to restore access. The malware targets computers running Microsoft Windows and has already affected users across multiple regions. CryptoLocker encrypts files on an infected system...

CryptoLocker developer launches Decryption Service website; 10 Bitcoins for Decryption Keys

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Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim

When you're online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...

Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim

When you’re online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...