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4 Mar

#romancescams | Cryptocurrency Tied Romance Frauds For Top Median Dollar Loss Reported To BBB’s Scam Tracker

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25 Jan

#deepweb | The Close Relationship Between The Darknet And Cryptocurrency Prices ⋆ ZyCrypto

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Dark web activities and cryptocurrencies seem to be close allies that you can never separate since they came into being. The two entities are dependent on one another, therefore, cryptocurrency prices...
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20 Nov

Official Monero Site Hacked to Distribute Cryptocurrency Stealing Malware

What an irony — someone hacked the official website of the Monero cryptocurrency project and quietly replaced legitimate Linux and Windows binaries available for download with malicious versions designed to steal funds from users’ wallets. The latest supply-chain cyberattack was...
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18 Nov

Two Arrested for Stealing $550,000 in Cryptocurrency Using Sim Swapping

It appears that at least the United States has started taking the threat of Sim Swapping attacks very seriously. Starting with the country’s first-ever conviction for ‘SIM Swapping’ this February, U.S. Department of Justice has since then announced charges against...
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6 Jun

Cryptocurrency Firm Itself Hacked Its Customers to Protect Their Funds From Hackers

Are you using Komodo’s Agama Wallet to store your KMD and BTC cryptocurrencies? Were your funds also unauthorisedly transferred overnight to a new address? If yes, don’t worry, it’s probably safe, and if you are lucky, you will get your...
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15 May

Cryptocurrency Hacks Still Growing — What Does That Mean for the Industry?

Though once synonymous with underground networks and black hat hackers, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream over the past two years. In 2017, we saw the skyrocket of bitcoin to an all-time high of close to $20,000 followed by...
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30 Mar

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures’ Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of...
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28 Feb

Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive’s service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands...
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6 Feb

Critical Zcash Bug Could Have Allowed ‘Infinite Counterfeit’ Cryptocurrency

The developers behind the privacy-minded Zcash cryptocurrency have recently discovered and patched a highly dangerous vulnerability in the most secretive way that could have allowed an attacker to coin an infinite number of Zcash (ZEC). Yes, infinite… like a never-ending...
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5 Feb

Cryptocurrency Firm Loses $145 Million After CEO Dies With Only Password

QuadrigaCX, the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, has claimed to have lost CAD 190 million (nearly USD 145 million) worth of cryptocurrency after the exchange lost access to its cold (offline) storage wallets. Reason? Unfortunately, the only person with access...
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