DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds. To that end,...

Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts

A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in...

Analyzing Bitcoin Price Trends and Crypto Scalping Methods

By Uzair Amir Are you interested in cryptocurrency trading but unsure where to start? Have you heard about crypto scalping but… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Analyzing Bitcoin Price Trends and Crypto Scalping Methods...

bitcoin-core:policy_estimator_io: Crash in FuzzedFileProvider::seek

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5379952436379648 Project: bitcoin-core Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: policyestimatorio Job Type: libfuzzerasani386bitcoin-core Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0xffffff87 Crash State: FuzzedFileProvider::seek...

GoMining Review: This Platform Makes Bitcoin Mining Possible Through NFTs

By Uzair Amir Curious to learn how GoMining is pioneering the democratization of crypto mining? Read on as we explore their approach, technicals, and how they ensure safety for their users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GoMining Review: This Platform Makes Bitcoin Minin...

YouTube ordered to reveal the identities of video viewers

Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen. Of those users that weren’t logged in when they watched those videos between January 1 an...

LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada

A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ wit...

ALPHV ransomware gang fakes own death, fools no one

For the second time in only four months, all is not well on the ALPHV aka BlackCat ransomware gangs dark web site. Gone are the lists of compromised victims. In their place, a veritable garden of law enforcement badges has sprouted beneath the ominous message "THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN SEIZED." The...

Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment

The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom...

openSUSE Security Advisory (openSUSE-SU-2024:0052-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Crypto Exchange FixedFloat Hacked: $26 Million in BTC, ETH Stolen

By Deeba Ahmed FixedFloat suffered a significant loss of over 1,700 Ethereum and over 400 Bitcoin due to a drainer attack on February 18, 2024. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crypto Exchange FixedFloat Hacked: $26 Million in BTC, ETH Stolen...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : bitcoin (openSUSE-SU-2024:0052-1)

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0052-1 advisory. - Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote...

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:0052-1 Security update for bitcoin

This update for bitcoin fixes the following issues: Update to version 26.0, including the following changes: - Enable LTO and test package for Leap - Enable sqlite3 support for wallet - Enable asm optimizations unconditionally...

Glupteba Botnet Evades Detection with Undocumented UEFI Bootkit

The Glupteba botnet has been found to incorporate a previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit feature, adding another layer of sophistication and stealth to the malware. "This bootkit can intervene and control the operating system boot process, enabling Glupteba t...

bitcoin-core:http_request: Use-of-uninitialized-value in evutil_inet_pton

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5630134094725120 Project: bitcoin-core Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: httprequest Job Type: libfuzzermsanbitcoin-core Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Use-of-uninitialized-value Crash Address: Crash State: evutilinetpton bracketaddrok...

CVE-2024-0676

Weak password requirement vulnerability in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version , which allows a local user to interact with the machine where the application is installed, retrieve stored hashes from the machine and crack long 4-character passwords using a dictionary attack...

CVE-2024-0675

Vulnerability of improper checking for unusual or exceptional conditions in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version, the exploitation of which could allow an attacker with physical access to the ATM to escape kiosk mode, access the underlying Xwindow interface and execute arbitrary...

CVE-2024-0674

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version, which could allow a local user to acquire root permissions by modifying the updatescript.js, inserting special code inside the script and creating the done.txt file. This would cause the watchdog process...

CVE-2024-0676

Weak password requirement vulnerability in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version , which allows a local user to interact with the machine where the application is installed, retrieve stored hashes from the machine and crack long 4-character passwords using a dictionary attack...

Input validation

Vulnerability of improper checking for unusual or exceptional conditions in Lamassu Bitcoin ATM Douro machines, in its 7.1 version, the exploitation of which could allow an attacker with physical access to the ATM to escape kiosk mode, access the underlying Xwindow interface and execute arbitrary...