Kardashev Scale Quantum Computing for Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin already faces a quantum threat through Shor attacks on elliptic-curve signatures. This paper isolates the other component that public discussion often conflates with it: mining. Grover's algorithm halves the exponent of brute-force search, promising a quadratic edge to any quantum miner o...

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...

GHSA-WG2X-RV86-MMPX SPV Merkle proof malleability allows the maintainer to prove invalid transactions

Summary By publishing specially crafted transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the SPV maintainer can produce seemingly valid SPV proofs for fraudulent transactions. The issue was originally identified by Least Authority in the tBTC Bridge V2 Security Audit Report as Issue B: Bitcoin SPV Merkle...

Lazarus Hacker Group Evolves Tactics, Tools, and Targets in DeathNote Campaign

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed shifting its focus and rapidly evolving its tools and tactics as part of a long-running campaign called DeathNote. While the nation-state adversary is known for persistently singling out the cryptocurrency sector, recent...

Z-NOMP Security Vulnerabilities

Z-NOMP is a suite of node open bitcoin mining software. A security vulnerability exists in versions of Z-NOMP prior to 2018-04-05...

NiceHash Miner Input Validation Error Vulnerability

NiceHash Miner is a mining software for Bitcoin. An input validation error vulnerability exists in NiceHash Miner versions prior to 2.0.3.0. The vulnerability stems from a network system or product that does not properly validate incoming data. No details of the vulnerability are provided at this...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Someone hacked this advertising screen to mine Bitcoin

By Waqas The sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin encouraged the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone hacked this advertising screen to mine Bitcoin...

Cyber Espionage Group Targets Asian Countries With Bitcoin Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that's wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is capable of performing nasty tasks, like password stealing, bitcoin mining, and providing hackers complete remote access to compromised systems. Dubbed Operation PZChao...

Satoshi Bomb

Let us discuss what defines the profitability of bitcoin mining, what principles for mining speed adaptation were initially embedded into it, and why these principles can lead to the failure of the cryptocurrency in the long run. We assume that the reader has an idea of basic Bitcoin mechanics su...

SambaCry exploit analysis-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

“2017 5 May 24, Samba released a 4. 6. 4 version, in the middle fix a serious remote code execution vulnerability, the vulnerability number CVE-2017-7494, the vulnerability affects Samba 3.5.0 after to 4. 6. 4/4. 5. 10/4. 4. 14 in the middle of all versions. SambaCry vulnerability is a scale spre...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

WinREST Remote Privilege Escalation

So a year back I was massively scanning internet. This case ISPs IPs blocks where you can find easily at RIPE for example. Then I found some interesting hosts where SMB were open and the ACL is totally open to root file system with the same netbios name. All file system is writable. I was able to...

BEWARE! μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software

If you have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 on your computer, then you read this warning post right now. Users of the μTorrent file-sharing service are complaining that the latest update of software used for torrent downloading is silently...

Majority of 4G USB Modems, SIM Cards Exploitable

Researchers say 4G USB modems contain exploitable vulnerabilities through which attackers could, and researchers have, managed to gain full control of the machines to which the devices are connected. Researchers from Positive Technologies presented a briefing detailing how to compromise USB modem...

HashCat Introduction: Break That Hash

When the Bitcoin mining craze hit its peak, people felt the tug to join this new community and make some easy money. The Concepts behind Bitcoin mining intrigued me, in particular the new use of graphics processors GPUs. With a moderately expensive video card, you could bring in enough money to p...

Microsoft Identifies New Malware Dropping Sefnit Botnet

Plenty has been written about the Sefnit malware family and its favor with using Tor to mask communication, as well as the money it’s made for criminals via click-fraud schemes. Sefnit, however, has had a pair of accomplices that until recently were regarded as harmless programs by most security...

Google Removes Bitcoin Mining Android Malware from Play

Google recently removed five bogus wallpaper apps from its Play marketplace after they were deemed malicious and found sneakily mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed BadLepricon, was spotted funneling Bitcoin into wallets and allowed the attacker to change mining pools easily to maximize the minin...

Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...