NEO Blockchain Node Client NEO-CLI Has RPC Interface Exposure Vulnerability

NEO is a non-profit community-based blockchain project. It is a distributed network that uses blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, and smart contracts to automate the management of digital assets to achieve a "smart economy". An RPC interface exposure vulnerability exist...

India's Startup Story - The Future of India's Digital Economy

India's goal of reaching a $1 trillion digital economy by 20221 is said to be fuelled, in part, by the spurt in the growth of startups across the country. The number of Internet users in India is growing at an enormous rate with close to 500 million internet users today2. Indians are at the...

Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019 Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019 Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions Introduction – key events in 2018 2018 saw cryptocurrency become an established part of many people's lives, and a more...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Falsely Labeled as Octopus

Two New Yorkers have been charged with importing squid from Peru and then reselling it as octopus. Yet another problem that a blockchain-enabled supply-chain system won't solve. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read ...

Code injection

A gambling smart contract implementation for RuletkaIo, an Ethereum gambling game, generates a random value that is predictable by an external contract call. The developer wrote a random function that uses a block timestamp and block hash from the Ethereum blockchain. This can be predicted by...

CVE-2018-17968

A gambling smart contract implementation for RuletkaIo, an Ethereum gambling game, generates a random value that is predictable by an external contract call. The developer wrote a random function that uses a block timestamp and block hash from the Ethereum blockchain. This can be predicted by...

West Virginia Using Internet Voting

This is crazy and dangerous. West Virginia is allowing people to vote via a smart-phone app. Even crazier, the app uses blockchain -- presumably because they have no idea what the security issues with voting actually are...

Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability

The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is usually known as the most hack-proof and secure blockchain. The DDoS vulnerability, identified as...

How the HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone Plans to Secure Your Cryptocurrency

HTC starts filling in the details of its so-called blockchain smartphone, expected to launch later this year...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Haitong Blockchain Trading Platform

Haitong Network is an architecture service provider specializing in trading systems, the company has a multi-currency BTC trading platform, wallet blockchain, block browser system and more than a dozen sets of perfect and professional industry systems. SQL injection vulnerability exists in Haiton...

IOVLabs: Attacker can add arbitrary data to the blockchain without paying gas

Summary: Due to a missing sanity check in Transaction::rlpParse, an attacker can append arbitrary RLP-encoded data to the end of an otherwise valid transaction, and that data will not only pass through validation, but also be propagated throug the network and mined into a block. Since the block...

SmartMesh Replay Attack Vulnerability

SmartMesh SMT is a blockchain-based underlying protocol for the Internet of Things IoT, positioned in the areas of meshless communication, meshless payment, and more. The 'transferProxy' and 'approveProxy' functions in SMT's smart contract are vulnerable to replay attacks, which can be exploited ...

Safe as houses: 5 security measures adopted by cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Cryptocurrencies rely on the blockchain, a decentralized ledger that records all transactions ever made within it. The blockchain network consists of multiple nodes that maintain it. To gain control over the network and tamper with transaction data a hacker should compromise most of the...

Hacking the Bitfi. Part 2: John McAfee’s video

The unhackable Bitfi story isn't going away any time soon. Following John McAfee's tweet yesterday that he would put out a "definitive video countering all of the nonsense claims instigated and co-coordinated by BirFi's sic established, monolithic competitors in the hardware wallet space" here's ...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

ICO hacked: Hackers steal $8 million from KICKICO Blockchain network

By Waqas Another day, another ICO hacked. This time, KICKICO, an Initial Coin Offering ICO project that lets users conduct ICOs, pre-ICOs, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting campaigns have suffered a security breach and as a result, hackers have stolen more than 70 million KickCoins which is around...

What financial service providers should know about blockchain: Opportunities and threats

It seems that every few years, an advanced and innovative new technology emerges and becomes the next big thing for organizations across different industries. Take the cloud and big data, for example - during their buzzword stage, these concepts were being attached to just about everything in the...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

How the Rise of Cryptocurrencies Is Shaping the Cyber Crime Landscape: The Growth of Miners

Introduction Cyber criminals tend to favor cryptocurrencies because they provide a certain level of anonymity and can be easily monetized. This interest has increased in recent years, stemming far beyond the desire to simply use cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for illicit tools and...

Orbit - Cryptocurrency Wallets Relationship Visualizer

Give it a blockchain based crypto wallet address and it will crawl 3 levels deep in transaction data to plot a graph out of the information. Usage Run orbit.py with python3 as follows python3 orbit.py Enter the wallet address | | | ' | || | | | | Enter a wallet address: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Now orbit...