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Bitstamp Offline Following Wallet Compromise
Bitstamp, a Bitcoin exchange based in the United Kingdom, remains offline this afternoon following what appears to have been a compromise over the weekend. The company tweeted shortly after 4 a.m. Monday that it had to temporarily halt all withdrawals because it believes one of its wallets was...
Bitcoin Phishing Scam Takes Aim at 400 Organizations
More than 400 organizations were recently targeted by a Bitcoin phishing campaign that intended to con users into disclosing their wallet passwords. According to Proofpoint, a California-based email security firm that recapped the campaign Wednesday, 12,000 messages were recently sent in two wave...
Hacker Exploits NAS Vulns to Mine $620K in Dogecoin
A hacker, well-versed in malware and exploit development, took advantage of vulnerabilities in Synology network attached storage boxes popular with home users to mine more than $600,000 worth of the digital currency Dogecoin. Researchers Pat Litke and David Shear of Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Thre...
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...
Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations
The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...
