Monero: Exploiting Network and Timing Side-Channels to Break Monero Receiver Anonymity

Summary: We present various examples of side-channel leakage in the communication between a Monero wallet and P2P node. Communication patterns and timing leak whether the wallet is the payee of a transaction that is sent into the transaction pool or mined in a block—thereby breaking transaction...

Mac OSX Bitcoin Trojan malware Steals Wallet Credentials

A small number of Bitcoin wallets have been raided by a newly discovered Trojan that gobbles up credentials used to guard the digital currency. OSX/CoinThief.A was found in the wild by a security consultancy specializing in Apple security called SecureMac; the malware was spreading on GitHub via ...