Podcast: Why Bitcoin Miners Target Critical Infrastructure Networks

On this week’s Threatpost Podcast show, we sit down with Ronen Rabinovich from Cyberbit to discuss bitcoin mining on operational technology and critical infrastructure networks. Rabinovich talks about why the massive amount of computing power and lack of security and monitoring tools make...

Questions Arise About Bitcoin Security Paper

In the wake of the publication of a new academic paper that says there is a fundamental flaw in the Bitcoin protocol that could allow a small cartel of participants to become powerful enough that it could take over the mining process and gather a disproportionate amount of the value in the system...