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World's 9 Biggest Banks to adopt Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology
The Existing Infrastructure used by Financial institutions like Banks is Archaic, Slow, and Costly, with hardly any innovation in the past three decades. Nine of the World’s renowned Banks, including JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Goldman Sachs and Barclays, are collaborating with New York-bas...
Poor Crypto Dooms Blockchain Android App
Shoddy crypto is being blamed for the loss of Bitcoin for an unnamed number of Blockchain users. Blockchain, one of the busiest Bitcoin wallets, on Thursday released a security update for its Android app correcting the situation. “In rare circumstances, certain versions of the Android operating...
‘DarkLeaks’ Black Market — Anonymously Selling Secrets for Bitcoins
An all new anonymous online underground black market website, DarkLeaks, has been introduced on the Internet where Whistleblowers, blackmailers, hackers and any individual can trade/sell sensitive and valuable data/secrets anonymously in exchange for Bitcoin payments. DarkLeaks is a decentralized...
MegaNet — New Decentralized, Non-IP Based and Encrypted Network
The Famous Internet entrepreneur and former hacker Kim Dotcom, who introduced legendary Megaupload and MEGA file sharing services to the World, has came up with another crazy idea — To start his very own Internet that uses the "blockchain". Just last month, Kim Dotcom, a German millionaire former...
$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange
The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...
Bitstamp Offline Following Wallet Compromise
Bitstamp, a Bitcoin exchange based in the United Kingdom, remains offline this afternoon following what appears to have been a compromise over the weekend. The company tweeted shortly after 4 a.m. Monday that it had to temporarily halt all withdrawals because it believes one of its wallets was...
Bitcoin Phishing Scam Takes Aim at 400 Organizations
More than 400 organizations were recently targeted by a Bitcoin phishing campaign that intended to con users into disclosing their wallet passwords. According to Proofpoint, a California-based email security firm that recapped the campaign Wednesday, 12,000 messages were recently sent in two wave...
Hacker Exploits NAS Vulns to Mine $620K in Dogecoin
A hacker, well-versed in malware and exploit development, took advantage of vulnerabilities in Synology network attached storage boxes popular with home users to mine more than $600,000 worth of the digital currency Dogecoin. Researchers Pat Litke and David Shear of Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Thre...
Ancient 'STONED' Virus Signatures found in Bitcoin Blockchain
If you are dealing in cryptocurrency Bitcoin and have Microsoft's Security Essentials MSE installed on your system, then you could be infected by a virus called "DOS/STONED" from the Bitcoin BlockChain. With a number of high-profile cases of fraud, theft, and technical incompetence against 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...
