Cisco MiniUPnP Stack Smashing Protection Attack

The Internet of Things security challenge is twofold: finding bugs, and more urgent—fixing them. Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group found and privately disclosed a serious and trivially exploitable client-side bug in MiniUPnP that was patched in September of last year. The...

Ransom32 — First JavaScript-powered Ransomware affecting Windows, Mac and Linux

Here's New Year's first Ransomware: Ransom32. A new Ransomware-as-a-service, dubbed Ransom32, has been spotted that for the first time uses a ransomware written in JavaScript to infect Mac, Windows as well as Linux machines. Ransom32 allows its operators to deploy the malware very quickly and...

Bitcoin Core Developers Quit Bitcoin Project to Launch a New Digital Currency

Some of Bitcoin’s Core developers have left the Bitcoin project and started building their separate cryptocurrency called DECRED. Decred aims to prevent the issues Bitcoin is currently facing regarding project governance and development funding. CEO of 'Company 0', Mr. Jacob Yocom-Piatt, who has...

Coinbase: Potential for Double Spend via Sign Message Utility

Hi, There is an unlikely but theoretically exploitable vulnerability is caused by allowing users to sign messages with their addresses. So far I have not been able to exploit this, but I believe that it is exploitable. On coinbse.com, the user can see a list of their addresses here. When they cli...

Police Raid alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright's Home in Sydney

Just hours after the Australian man 'Craig Steven Wright' outed as the possible real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Australian Police raided his home in Sydney. Over 10 police officers raided Wright's home in the Sydney suburbs on Wednesday afternoon. They...

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...

Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise

Experts believe that the success tied to a recent spate of DDoS-for-hire groups may be because many are copycat collectives operating with a shorter lifespan. Researchers with Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based firm that tracks real time threat intelligence, said Monday that they’ve noticed a...

Hackers are using Nuclear Exploit Kit to Spread Cryptowall 4.0 Ransomware

Beware Internet Users! Cryptowall 4.0 – the newest version of the world's worst Ransomware – has surfaced in the Nuclear exploit kit, one of the most potent exploit kits available in the underground market for hacking into computers. Ransomware threat has emerged as one of the biggest threats to...

Chimera Ransomware Operation Shut Down

It seems that as quickly as the Chimera ransomware surfaced, the operation has been shut down. Researchers at Bleeping Computer said Tuesday that the malware was no longer active. A number of security companies were publishing alerts about this latest strain of crypto-ransomware, which was...

Hackers claim ISIS Militants linked to Paris Attacks had a Bitcoin Wallet worth $3 Million

The world watched in horror as coordinate attacks in Paris Friday night killed more than 130 people and left over 352 injured. Over 20 attackers have so far been part of the terrorist cell that planned the deadly Paris attacks, with seven suicide bombers dead, seven attackers under arrest and a...

ProtonMail Back Online Following Six Day DDoS Attack

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is back online today following a crippling six-day attack that saw the company’s ISPs and data centers under siege. Operators behind the service said the site may not always be reachable, as its servers are still under heavy strain and mitigating attack, and tha...

Linux Ransomware targeting Servers and Threatening Webmasters to Pay

Since past few years, Ransomware has emerged as one of the catastrophic malware programs that lets hacker encrypts all the contents of a victim's hard drive or/and server and demands ransom typically to be paid in Bitcoin in exchange for a key to decrypt it. Until now cyber criminals were targeti...

ProtonMail Paid Hackers $6000 Ransom in Bitcoin to Stop DDoS Attacks

The Geneva-based encrypted email service ProtonMail was forced to pay a Ransom of almost $6,000 to stop sustained Denial-of-service DDoS attacks that have knocked its service offline since Tuesday. ProtonMail – a full, end-to-end encrypted email service that launched last year – has been dealing...

Meet The World's First Person Who Hacked His Body to Implant a Bitcoin Payment CHIP

Hackers are now going crazy and trying new ways in Biohacking. Until now, we have seen a hacker who implanted a small NFC chip in his hand in order to hack Android smartphones and bypass almost all security measures. However, now the level of craziness has gone to a whole new level. A Swedish...

CryptoWall Ransomware raised $325 Million in Revenue for Its Developer

The Creators of the notorious CryptoWall ransomware virus have managed to raise more than $325 million £212 million in this past year alone. Ransomware has emerged as one of the biggest cyber threats to web users in recent times. Typically, hackers primarily gain access to a user's computer syste...

ZIB - The Open Tor Botnet

General information and instructions. The Open Tor Botnet requires the installation and configuration of bitcoind, however I neglect to detail this here out of a lack of time. This bot-net is fully undetectable and bypasses all antivirus through running on top of Python27's pyinstaller, which is...

FBI Suggests Ransomware Victims — 'Just Pay the Ransom Money'

Your Headache is not my Problem. If your computer gets hacked and infected with malware that holds your data for ransom, just pay off the criminals to see your valuable data again and do not expect the FBI to save them – it's what the FBI is advising concerning ransomware. Ransomware is a...

ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network - http://zeronet.io Why? We believe in open, free, and uncensored network and communication. No single point of failure: Site remains online so long as at least 1 peer serving it. No hosting costs: Sites are served by visitors...

Coinbase: User email enumuration using Gmail

Hi, Using Gmail it is possible to get the list of email addresses that use/have coinbase accounts. as a prerequisite: we will need a script to bruteforce a list of email addresses. consider this script: python import random values only contain small letters and numbers letters =...

'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...