Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges

Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 2023 and nearly doubling that figure in 2024. This exceptional success has attracted the attention of traditional...

A Hitchhiker'S Guide to Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies: a Survey on Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Auditability

Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies CBDCs are reshaping the monetary landscape, offering transparency and efficiency while raising critical concerns about user privacy and regulatory compliance. This survey provides a comprehensive and technically grounded overview of...

SecurePay: Enabling Secure and Fast Payment Processing for Platform Economy

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of platform economy, as it effectively addresses the trust dilemma between untrusted online buyers and merchants. However, malicious platforms can misuse users' funds and information, causing severe security concerns. Previous research efforts aimed...

DDoS Attacks Hit Denmark Central Bank and 7 Private Banks

By Habiba Rashid Along with the websites of the central bank, Bankdata—a company that develops IT solutions for the financial industry—was also targeted by a DDoS attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks Hit Denmark Central Bank and 7 Private Banks...

Confirmed: Anonymous Hacks Central Bank of Russia; Leaks 28GB of Data

By Waqas One of the Anonymous affiliate groups going by the Twitter handle of @Thblckrbbtworld has leaked 28GB worth of… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Confirmed: Anonymous Hacks Central Bank of Russia; Leaks 28GB of Data...

Hackers Targeting Brazil's PIX Payment System to Drain Users' Bank Accounts

Two newly discovered malicious Android applications on Google Play Store have been used to target users of Brazil's instant payment ecosystem in a likely attempt to lure victims into fraudulently transferring their entire account balances into another bank account under cybercriminals' control...

European Central Bank Shuts Down 'BIRD Portal' After Getting Hacked

The European Central Bank ECB confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting malware into one of its websites and potentially stealing contact information of its newsletter subscribers. Headquartered in Germany, the European Central Bank ECB is the...

European Central Bank Shuts Down 'BIRD Portal' After Getting Hacked

The European Central Bank ECB confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting malware into one of its websites and potentially stealing contact information of its newsletter subscribers. Headquartered in Germany, the European Central Bank ECB is the...

October 18, 2018—KB4462928 (OS Build 14393.2580)

October 18, 2018—KB4462928 OS Build 14393.2580 Windows 10, version 1607, reached end of service on April 10, 2018. Devices running Windows 10 Home or Pro editions will no longer receive monthly security and quality updates that contain protection from the latest security threats.To continue...

centralbankbahamas.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-694455 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| centralbankbahamas.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

centralbankbahamas.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-620770 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| centralbankbahamas.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks

Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team ThaiCERT has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it is working with McAfee an...

Banknotes Misproduction security & biometric weakness

Document Title: =============== Banknotes Misproduction security & biometric weakness References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2105 Download: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/7692342363856723534.rar Release Date: ============= 2018-01-29...

419 spam: 10 million US dollars, courtesy of “Rev. Goodluck Ebola”

I'm not saying an email claiming to be from the "Central Bank of Nigeria" with a contact handler named "Rev. Goodluck Ebola" will raise too many red flags, but… Click to Enlarge CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Zaria Street, Off Samuel Akintola Street,Garki 11, Garki-Abuja. Our Ref:...

Complex Petya-Like Ransomware Outbreak Worse than WannaCry

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. The attackers behind today’s global ransomware outbreak are spreading the malware using a modified version of the leaked...

Security Researcher Goes Missing, Who Investigated Bangladesh Bank Hack

Tanvir Hassan Zoha, a 34-year-old security researcher, who spoke to media on the $81 Million Bangladesh Bank cyber theft, has gone missing since Wednesday night, just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence. Zoha was investigating a recent cyber attack on Bangladesh'...

How a Typo Stopped Hackers from Stealing $1 Billion from Bank

Typos are really embarrassing, but this time it saved the Bangladesh Central Bank and the New York Federal Reserve by preventing a nearly $1 Billion £700 Million heist. Last month, some unknown hackers broke into Bangladesh's central bank, obtained credentials needed for payment transfers and the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Monetary Award Email Messages on July 9, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30019 First Published: 2013 July 10 14:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a monetary award for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the...

Swedish Sites Attacked in Retaliation for Police Raid on Web Host

Several Web sites in Sweden, including the nation’s central bank and two government affiliates, were hit with attacks this week, supposedly in retaliation for a police raid on an Internet company tied to The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest file sharing site. That site also was offline until...