Dutch Police Arrest Alleged CoinVault Ransomware Authors

Ransomware has emerged as major threat to consumers and businesses in recent years, and law enforcement agencies and security researchers have taken note. Authorities last year disrupted the Cryptolocker ransomware operation and now Dutch police have arrested two young men they believe are involv...

Decentralized P2P Websites: ZeroNet

Decentralized P2P websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network ZeroNet uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology to build a decentralized censorship-resistant network. Users can publish static or dynamic websites into ZeroNet and visitors can choose to also serve the website...

Six U.K. Teens Arrested for using Lizard Squad's DDoS Tool

Six British teenagers arrested and released on bail on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on websites and services with the help of Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, called Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad is infamous for hacking and knocking down the largest online gaming networks – PlayStation...

Cybercrime Group Switches from Angler Exploit Kit to Neutrino

A prominent cybercrime actor or group has been kicking the tires on the Neutrino Exploit Kit to move ransomware and other malware, the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center reported today. Neutrino is a tier below the prolific Angler Exploit Kit, which is frequently at the heart of new attacks,...

Windows 10 Upgrade Spam Carries CTB-Locker Ransomware

In the week since a free upgrade to Windows 10 was made available, users have learned a of about a host of built-in privacy and security issues, the most troubling being a native feature called Wi-Fi Sense that grants access to your Wi-Fi network to contacts stored in a host of online services. N...

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested by Japanese Police

Remember Mt.Gox? Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange… ...then in early 2014, Tokyo-based Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy saying it lost some 8,50,000 Bitcoins worth $64 Million to hackers and suddenly went dark with no explanation. Last Friday, Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of...

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they don’t pay a ransom. The scam is a variation on a theme, th...

Cloudminr Bitcoin Hack Exposes Data on 80,000

Attackers were able to break into servers belonging to Bitcoin cloud-mining platform Cloudminr.io last week and harvest the site’s entire database. Now hackers are attempting to sell the information, which includes thousands of unencrypted usernames, email addresses, and passwords. Cloudminr, a...

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin. The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website. Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage...

FreeBSD : bitcoin -- denial of service (d7b9a28d-238c-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8)

Gregory Maxwell reports : On July 7th I will be making public details of several serious denial of service vulnerabilities which have fixed in recent versions of Bitcoin Core, including including CVE-2015-3641. I strongly recommend anyone running production nodes exposed to inbound connections fr...

Banking with digital currency - A futuristic application

Digital Currency is a thing? $3 Billion dollars USD of money is out there in a digital format, not printed or managed by a government. It has many different product names and each one operates separately. One example of a digital currency is Bitcoin. It is only one of the many digital currencies...

bitcoin -- denial of service

Gregory Maxwell reports: On July 7th I will be making public details of several serious denial of service vulnerabilities which have fixed in recent versions of Bitcoin Core, including including CVE-2015-3641. I strongly recommend anyone running production nodes exposed to inbound connections fro...

FBI Says Cryptowall Cost Victims $18 Million Since 2014

In a little more than a year, consumers affected by the Cryptowall ransomware have reported to the FBI more than $18 million in losses related to infections from the malware. Cryptowall is among the group of ransomware families that encrypt the files on victims’ computers and then demands a ranso...

Cryptowall 3.0 Infections Spike from Angler EK, Malicious Spam

Since the Angler Exploit Kit began in late May spreading Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware, traffic containing the malware has continued to grow, putting more potential victims in harm’s way. Today, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported that Cryptowall 3.0 infections are emanating from not only the...

Author Behind Ransomware Tox Calls it Quits, Sells Platform

Earlier this week, when the author behind the crypto-ransomware Locker apologized and released decryption keys for his victims, it seemed like a change of heart, uncharacteristic for an attacker. Now another ransomware creator has also decided to cut his losses and get out of the game – but not...

Machines Infected by Locker Ransomware Decrypted

Update: Computers infected by the Locker crypto-ransomware were today decrypted as promised by the malware’s author, who last week posted the decryption keys to an upload site and apologized for releasing the malware. Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer said the infected computers were decrypted...

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...

'Tox' Offers Free build-your-own Ransomware Malware Toolkit

"Ransomware" threat is on the rise, but the bad news is that Ransomware campaigns are easier to run, and now a Ransomware kit is being offered by hackers for free for anyone to download and distribute the threat. Ransomware is a type of computer virus that infects a target computer, encrypts thei...

TeslaCrypt Ransomware Taking a Toll on Victims

The attackers behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware, which is one of the newer entries on the scene, may not be making as much money yet as some of their more experienced competitors, but researchers say that their malware is having a profound effect on victims. Like many other pieces of ransomware,...

Angler Exploit Kit Pushing New, Unnamed Ransomware

Attackers are using the infamous Angler exploit kit to disseminate a new, yet unnamed variant of the TeslaCrypt and AlphaCrypt ransomware, according to Rackspace security researcher Brad Duncan. Duncan analyzed the threat on the SANS Internet Storm Center, saying that the malware presents its...