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Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Bug Bounties, Bitcoin and the Apple Report
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the major stories from the last couple of weeks, including the changes to the Microsoft bug bounty program, the new Internet bug bounty, the Apple transparency report and a new paper on a weakness in Bitcoin. Download: digitalunderground133.mp3...
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...
US-CERT Warns of More CryptoLocker Ransomware Infections
CryptoLocker is a devious evolution of now-familiar ransomware schemes in which the malware encrypts files it finds on a number of network resources and demands a ransom for the decryption key. US-CERT issued an advisory today warning businesses and consumers of the risks presented by CryptoLocke...
CryptoLocker developer launches Decryption Service website; 10 Bitcoins for Decryption Keys
A long-running ransomware known as CryptoLocker is continuing to lock victims out of their files and demand payment to restore access. The malware targets computers running Microsoft Windows and has already affected users across multiple regions. CryptoLocker encrypts files on an infected system...
CryptoLocker developer launches Decryption Service website; 10 Bitcoins for Decryption Keys
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Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim
When you're online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...
Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim
When you’re online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...
Dutch Police arrested TorRAT Malware Gang for stealing over Million Dollar
The TorRAT malware was first appeared in 2012 as spying tool only. But from August 2012, Bitcoin Mining feature was added and it became a powerful hacking tool that was commonly associated with attacks on Financial institutions. ab This year TorRat Malware targeted two out of three major Banks in...
FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins worth $28.5 Million From Silk Road Bust
The world’s favorite crypto-currency has made rounds in the headlines this week. The FBI had managed to seize 144,000 Bitcoins worth some $28.5 million at current exchange rates from Silk Road's founder, that's the largest ever seizure of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is an open-source,...
Ransomware Now Accepting Bitcoin
A family of ransomware known as CryptoLocker has added the popular digital currency Bitcoin to the list of payment methods it accepts in exchange for the private key that will decrypt the files encrypted by the malware. According to a blogpost penned by AlienVault researcher Alberto Ortega, Bitco...
World's 3rd Largest Chinese Bitcoin exchange hit by 100Gbps DDoS attack
In March of this year, we saw the first ever 300 Gigabit DDoS attack, which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack against Spamhaus. On 24 September World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS atta...
Seized $3.5 Million worth Bitcoins from Silk Road will be deposited in the U.S. Treasury
Ross Ulbricht, the recently arrested mastermind behind Silk Road, appeared in court yesterday where his lawyer begged for more time before the detention hearing. As the Protective Order states, The United States is further authorized to seize any and all Bitcoins contained in wallet files residin...
Bitcoin Makes Cybercrime Arrests Harder than Ever
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The good news is that cooperation between the various law enforcement agencies in different countries all over the world is at an all time high; the bad news is that cybercriminals have embraced a potent combination of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin and equally anonymous...
FBI Shuts Down Online Drug, Hacking Market Silk Road
The FBI has taken down the infamous Silk Road underground drug market, arresting Ross William Ulbricht in San Francisco yesterday and charging him not only with the distribution of illegal drugs including heroin and LSD, but also with a number of computer hacking crimes. Ulbricht, who was known a...
Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?
It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...
Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?
It’s been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...
CVE-2013-5700
The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...
Design/Logic Flaw
The Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and daemon crash via a crafted sequence of messages...
CVE-2013-5700
The CVE-2013-5700 issue affects the Bloom Filter implementation in bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.x before 0.8.4rc1. A crafted sequence of messages can trigger a division-by-zero error, leading to a denial of service and daemon crash. This is tied to the Bloom Filter component, with impact described...
