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As Bitcoin Price Surges, Phishing Attacks on Cryptocurrency Wallets Intensify
Bitcoin price surge reverberates through cybercriminal landscape, as cyber-criminals ramp up phishing attacks against Bitcoin users.
- December 23, 2016
- 06:10 AM
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Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform's community forums. The breach took place last Friday, on December 16. The database backup the attacker managed to get his hands on was taken on April 2016.
- December 20, 2016
- 05:50 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Cryptocurrency Miners Turn Their Sights to Zcash
Barely a month and a half have passed since Zcash became available, and crooks have already started deploying malware that infects the computers of unsuspecting users and uses their resources to mine for this very profitable cryptocurrency.
- December 12, 2016
- 07:13 AM
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Hacker Steals $300,000 from Major Cryptocurrency Investor
An unknown hacker has stolen at least $300,000 in Augur and Ether cryptocurrency from Bo Shen, the founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, and one of the early adopters of many of today's cryptocurrencies.
- December 07, 2016
- 08:20 PM
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Bitcoin Price Reaches $995 in India After Government Rendered Most Currency Useless
Prices have skyrocketed at Indian Bitcoin exchange platforms following the government decision to denominate the 500 and 1,000 Rupees currency notes with only a night's notice.
- November 28, 2016
- 05:20 PM
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IRS Petitions Coinbase for Data on All Active US Bitcoin Traders
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force Coinbase to disclose the personal details of all US users that have conducted Bitcoin trades between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015.
- November 19, 2016
- 05:50 PM
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Zcash Promises the Anonymous Transactions Bitcoin Can't Deliver
A team of internationally-recognized cryptography experts has helped launch a new cryptocurrency called Zcash, which promises the anonymity Bitcoin couldn't deliver.
- November 07, 2016
- 11:00 AM
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Most Connected Seagate Central devices infected by Monero Mining Trojan
Sophos recently reported about a Trojan that installs a Monero mining program called NsCpuCNMiner32.exe on an infected computer and then spreads itself to other computers and FTP sites. Since connected Seagate Central devices have a writable Public folder, many have been compromised by this ransomware.
- September 13, 2016
- 05:10 PM
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DDoSCoin - An Incentive to Launch DDoS Attacks?
Researchers have devised a new cryptocurrency called DDoSCoin that could potentially incentivize criminals to harass, extort, and attack websites designated as targets. This coin would award people who perform Denial of Service Attacks on chosen victims by rewarding them with DDosCoins.
- August 15, 2016
- 01:58 PM
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Adware Bundlers pushing CryptoCurrency Miners on Unsuspecting Victims
Adware bundlers are now installing cryptocurrency miners on victim's computers. A new offer called VNLGP Miner has been discovered that installs a cryptocurrency miner that utilizes 70% of the user's graphics card in order to generate revenue for the developer.
- April 14, 2016
- 09:15 AM
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