Dutch Police arrested TorRAT Malware Gang for stealing over Million Dollar

The TorRAT malware was first appeared in 2012 as spying tool only. But from August 2012, Bitcoin Mining feature was added and it became a powerful hacking tool that was commonly associated with attacks on Financial institutions. ab This year TorRat Malware targeted two out of three major Banks in...

FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins worth $28.5 Million From Silk Road Bust

The world’s favorite crypto-currency has made rounds in the headlines this week. The FBI had managed to seize 144,000 Bitcoins worth some $28.5 million at current exchange rates from Silk Road's founder, that's the largest ever seizure of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is an open-source,...

Ransomware Now Accepting Bitcoin

A family of ransomware known as CryptoLocker has added the popular digital currency Bitcoin to the list of payment methods it accepts in exchange for the private key that will decrypt the files encrypted by the malware. According to a blogpost penned by AlienVault researcher Alberto Ortega, Bitco...

World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack

In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...

Seized $3.5 Million worth Bitcoins from Silk Road will be deposited in the U.S. Treasury

Ross Ulbricht, the recently arrested mastermind behind Silk Road, appeared in court yesterday where his lawyer begged for more time before the detention hearing. As the Protective Order states, The United States is further authorized to seize any and all Bitcoins contained in wallet files residin...

Bitcoin Makes Cybercrime Arrests Harder than Ever

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The good news is that cooperation between the various law enforcement agencies in different countries all over the world is at an all time high; the bad news is that cybercriminals have embraced a potent combination of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin and equally anonymous...

FBI Shuts Down Online Drug, Hacking Market Silk Road

The FBI has taken down the infamous Silk Road underground drug market, arresting Ross William Ulbricht in San Francisco yesterday and charging him not only with the distribution of illegal drugs including heroin and LSD, but also with a number of computer hacking crimes. Ulbricht, who was known a...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It’s been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

CVE-2013-5700

The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...

CVE-2013-5700

The CVE-2013-5700 issue affects the Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1. A crafted sequence of messages can trigger a division-by-zero error, leading to a denial of service and daemon crash. This is tied to the Bloom Filter component, with impact described...

CVE-2013-5700

The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...

CVE-2013-5700

Removed by vendor...

PT-2013-5735

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bitcoin-Qt versions 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 bitcoind versions 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and daemon crash, via a crafted sequence of...

CVE-2013-5700: Undefined Security Weakness

The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...

Update to Bitcoin Client Fixes DoS Bug, Password Strength

The developers behind Bitcoin-QT, a software wallet used to protect and back up Bitcoin currency, have pushed out a new version of the client, fixing a critical denial-of-service bug, three security issues and fortifying password security. Version 0.8.4 of the original Bitcoin client was posted t...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Bitcoin Wallets on Android Vulnerable to Theft

Bitcoin wallets on the Android platform are vulnerable to theft after a vulnerability was discovered that could allow an attacker to guess a private key used to secure transactions involving the virtual currency. A post to a Bitcoin forum over the weekend pointed to a report of one address having...