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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...
15-year-old Boy Arrested in connection with TalkTalk Cyber Attack
The arrest is the first major outcome since TalkTalk – the biggest phone and broadband provider in the UK with more than 4 Million customers – had suffered a serious data breach. The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI and the investigating officers from the Metropolitan police's cyber crime...
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...
The Triumphant Finale of CSI: Cyber
It’s been a couple of months since we left our heroes on CSI: Cyber, and boy, have they been busy. They have apparently solved many crimes using cyber-sleuthing, acquired some decidedly non-cyber firearms skills, and, in the case of our man Krumitz, taken up running. We wanted to check in and see...
Malicious Chrome Extension Hijacks CryptoCurrencies and Wallets
Although the number of malicious browser extensions has significantly increased in the past years, but recently a new extension of the Google Chrome is allegedly targeting Cryptocurrency users that is capable of stealing Bitcoins and other crypto coins silently. The malicious Chrome browser...
World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox Shuts Down; CEO quits Bitcoin Foundation
World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has shut down its website, withdrawal system, deleted its Twitter feed and halted all trading systems after it detected "unusual activity." The Bitcoin Foundation, a Bitcoin advocacy group, confirmed that Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of Tokyo-based M...
U.S. Judge ordered the largest Ever Forfeiture of 29,655 Bitcoins seized from Silk Road
In last October, the Feds told they would probably just liquidate the bitcoins seized from the online black market Silk Road, once they were legally free to do so. Finally the United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken signed off on the forfeiture order for the Bitcoins, clearing the government ...
$100 Million Worth of Bitcoins Stolen
UPDATE: As if Bitcoin malware and Bitcoin mining malware weren’t enough to worry about, there was more trouble for the users of the digital crypto-currency last week as 96,000 Bitcoins disappeared from the Sheep Marketplace. Bicoin’s value has surged in recent weeks, peaking at an astonishing...
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,...
CryptoLocker Ransomware demands $300 or Two Bitcoins to decrypt your files
If you're a daily computer user, you're likely aware of all the threats you face every day online in the form of viruses and malware. CryptoLocker, a new ransomware malware, began making the rounds several months ago. This ransomware is particularly nasty because infected users are in danger of...
CryptoLocker Ransomware demands $300 or Two Bitcoins to decrypt your files
If you're a daily computer user, you're likely aware of all the threats you face every day online in the form of viruses and malware. CryptoLocker, a new ransomware malware, began making the rounds several months ago. This ransomware is particularly nasty because infected users are in danger of...
Silk Road : 8 more suspected users arrested in US, UK, Sweden
Authorities in Britain, Sweden, and the United States have arrested eight more people in the wake of the shutdown of the Silk Road, online illegal drug marketplace which helped dealers sell drugs under the cloak of anonymity. Millions of Dollars worth of Bitcoins Electronic currency had been seiz...
Silk Road : 8 more suspected users arrested in US, UK, Sweden
Authorities in Britain, Sweden, and the United States have arrested eight more people in the wake of the shutdown of the Silk Road, online illegal drug marketplace which helped dealers sell drugs under the cloak of anonymity. Millions of Dollars worth of Bitcoins Electronic currency had been seiz...
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 Talk forum hacked; Database for Sale by Hacker; Website currently down
Bitcoin Talk, the popular Bitcoin discussion forum, has been hacked and as it stands the site is currently unreachable. Bitcointalk has been down for nearly 6 hours. The forums have been allegedly hacked and Defaced by “The Hole Seekers” and selling 150,000 emails and hashed passwords stolen from...
Underground Drugs Market website 'Silk Road' Founder Arrested by FBI
The FBI had seized a website called 'Silk Road', that was considered one of the most popular Underground places on the Internet for buying drugs and other illicit goods and services. They arrested the site's alleged founder, Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," in San Francisco...
Kelihos P2P Botnet Leveraging Composite Blocking Lists
Kelihos, the peer-to-peer botnet with nine lives, keeps popping up with new capabilities that enable it to sustain itself and make money for its keepers by pushing spam, harvesting credentials and even stealing Bitcoins. According to a number of sources, Kelihos is now leveraging legitimate and...
Skype Malware Stealing Victims' Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins
Bitcoin may still be a virtual unknown quantity for most people, but the digital currency has not escaped the notice of attackers, many of whom are turning their attention to finding ways to use the system for their own gains. The attacks against Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and hack of Instawallet...
Group Claims to Have Stolen Romney Tax Records from Tennessee Offices
A group claiming to have stolen tax returns belonging to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney say they want $1 million in Bitcoins by September 28 or they’ll publicly release the records worldwide. News agencies report the U.S. Secret Service is investigating the alleged data theft at th...
