Coinbase: 2FA settings allowed to be changed with no delay/freeze on funds

With the nature of bitcoin's instant transactions and the increase level of phishing/malware attempts on users, many bitcoin related businesses have freeze/delays on funds once a user changes their 2FA settings. That design keeps the 2FA from being defeated instantly if the user's email account h...

U.S. Marshals Auctioning Off Seized Silk Road Bitcoins

If any further evidence was required that up is down and black is white, the United States government is now in the business of selling Bitcoins. At least for one day. The U.S. Marshals Service is planning to hold a one-day auction on June 27 to sell nearly 30,000 Bitcoins the government seized i...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID10280: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 10, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34575 First Published: 2014 June 10 12:51 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID10280 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

New Ransomware Malware takes Advantage of Windows PowerShell

Ransomware is one of the most blatant and obvious money making schemes for cybercriminals and it was most likely to be known when last year Cryptolocker ransomware targeted millions of computers worldwide. Recently, security researchers at the Antivirus firm TrendLabs have unearthed another...

ProtonMail: 'NSA-Proof' End-to-End Encrypted Email Service

The Edward Snowden revelations triggered a large-scale movement worldwide towards deploying encryption across the Internet for secure services, which is something the government agencies like NSA and GCHQ have targeted repeatedly, as exemplified by abruptly shutting down Lavabit, a Texas-based...

Ancient 'STONED' Virus Signatures found in Bitcoin Blockchain

If you are dealing in cryptocurrency Bitcoin and have Microsoft's Security Essentials MSE installed on your system, then you could be infected by a virus called "DOS/STONED" from the Bitcoin BlockChain. With a number of high-profile cases of fraud, theft, and technical incompetence against the...

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

The engineNextBytes function in classlib/modules/security/src/main/java/common/org/apache/harmony/security/provider/crypto/SHA1PRNGSecureRandomImpl.java in the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony through 6.0M3, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture JCA in Android before 4.4 and...

CVE-2013-7372

CVE-2013-7372 affects the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony (SHA1PRNG_SecureRandomImpl) used by JCA in Android up to version 4.3/4.4 boundaries. The engineNextBytes function uses an incorrect offset when no user seed is provided, making the PRNG output more predictable and enabling at...

Click-Fraud Sefnit Variant Shuns Tor for SSH

Sefnit was the first malware family to shed light on the problem of botnets and other malicious code using the Tor anonymity network as a communication protocol. While others before and since have done the same, Sefnit made the biggest splash at the end of last summer when the botnet caused a 600...

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...

Dumb Ransomware Developer leaves Decryption Keys on Infected Computers

So, How do Hackers compromise a Website? Simply by exploiting the flaws in it, that means they took advantage of the error in the developers’ code. Now, this time the hackers itself has left behind a crucial flaw in its malware code which can be exploited by us to help save our computer systems...

DVR Infected with Bitcoin Mining Malware

Johannes Ullrich of the SANS Institute claims to have found malware infecting digital video recorders DVR predominately used to record footage captured by surveillance camera systems. Oddly enough, Ullrich claims that one of the two binaries of malware implicated in this attack scheme appears to ...

Coinbase: Coinbase Android Application - Bitcoin Wallet Leaks OAuth Response Code

Hi, There's a simple bug here, the Coinbase Android App. "BitCoin Wallet" leaks the OAuth Response Code which can be obtained using adb logcat -s Coinbase command line for testing, and any Android application on the same phone can read the response code for the user by reading the logs. As of now...

Android Malware found on Google Play Store mines Cryptocurrencies

Cyber criminals are more business-minded than you might expect. As the business has moved to greater use of mobile and non-Windows computers, so cyber criminals have adapted techniques monetize their efforts. Security researchers at Lookout Mobile Security discovered that various apps uploaded to...

Cpuminer - CPU miner for Litecoin and Bitcoin

cpuminer is a multi-threaded, highly optimized CPU miner for Litecoin, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Currently supported algorithms are SHA-256d and scrypt1024, 1, 1. It supports the getwork mining protocol as well as the Stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled...

Bitcoin Transaction Malleability Flaw Resolved

The so-called transaction malleability software issue blamed for the dissolution of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been patched. Also, the Bitcoin-QT reference client was also rebranded to Bitcoin Core, in order to clear confusion users might have had between the Bitcoin network and software. Bitco...

New Zorenium Bot Boasts Ability to Run on iOS

UPDATE–The iOS platform has been remarkably resistant to malware infections over the years and attackers interested in mobile devices mainly have focused their efforts on Android. But the developer of a little-known bot that has the ability to run on Linux and Windows machines now has a version...