This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Classic Ether Wallet Compromised via Social Engineering

Classic Ether Wallet, an open source wallet for the public, blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform Ethereum Classic ETC was compromised late last week. Developers of the decentralized platform said an attacker managed to hijack the domain for the wallet via social engineering late Thursday...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

bitcoin-ruby is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. There is a flaw in the Merkle hash implementation that Bitcoin uses to calculate the Merkle root in a block header. Block hash collisions can easily be made by duplicating transactions in the Merkle tree. A record collision would preven...

Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $1150 — Highest in last 3 Years

What a good start of the New Year for those holding Bitcoins! Web-based digital currency Bitcoin has passed $1,110 for the first time on the Bitstamp Price Index BPI since early November 2013. Bitcoin broke the barrier on 1 January and now is trading above $1,150 mark at the time of writing,...

NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security

The contentious U.S. presidential election elevated a number of critical security issues to the forefront, perhaps none more important for the long-term than questions of voter fraud and electronic voting security. If voting is ever to move away from paper ballots, the integrity of the process mu...

Blockchain Based DNS: dnschain

Blockchain Based DNS DNSChain makes it possible to be certain that you’re communicating with who you want to communicate with, and connecting to the sites that you want to connect to, without anyone secretly listening in on your conversations in between, DNSChain provides security properties that...

Blockchain: username enumeration

wordpress username enumeration...

Blockchain: Information disclosure at https://blockchain.atlassian.net

The reporter identified mildly sensitive information leaked through an internal ticket-tracking system, due to a flaw in the ticket-tracking system setting some items to a "Public" shared default setting. We made adjustments to the ticket-tracking system and resolved the issue...

Blockchain: Reflected XSS on blockchain.info

The application at https://blockchain.info is vulnerable to reflected XSS/HTML injection through the URL at the block-index page. Proof of concept === The following PoC contains the payload "XSS here which displays the text in heading size...

iCloud Phishing Campaign Zycode Back From the Dead

A phishing campaign aimed at Chinese Apple users that was thought to be in hibernation has been roused from its slumber. Researchers in June spotted the campaign, dubbed Zycode, targeting Apple iCloud users. A rash of suspended domains that month led to a lull for the campaign however; researcher...

​DARPA Wants To Build Ultra Secure Messaging App for US Military

Just last month, DARPA launched a project dubbed "Improv," inviting hackers to transform simple household appliances into deadly weapons. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is finding someone in the private sector to develop a hacker-proof "secure messaging and transaction platfor...

Nasdaq to Use Bitcoin-style Blockchain to Record Shareholder Votes

The Nasdaq stock exchange and the Republic of Estonia have announced the use of Blockchain-based technology to allow shareholders of companies to e-vote in shareholder meetings even when they're abroad, according to Nasdaq's press release. Global stock market giant is developing an electronic...

Bitcoin Creator 'Satoshi Nakamoto' Unmasked! An Australian Man 'Craig Wright' identified...

Breaking Update: Police Raid alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright's Home in Sydney. Yes, Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the Bitcoin digital cryptocurrency has possibly been identified as an Australian entrepreneur, according to investigations independently done by Wired and Gizmodo...

'Bitcoin is Now Officially a Commodity' — US Regulator Declared

Bitcoins are making their way, in Bits and Pieces. In a recent report The Hacker News THN had mentioned about banks adopting the Blockchain Technology from Bitcoins; to create a safe and secure distributed ledger. Now, last week U.S. Commodity Future Trading Commission CFTC, has added Bitcoins an...

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...