Tagged: hack

December 12, 2018 @ 7:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Beware the sextortion email with the suspicious link or attachment, says cybersecurity company Proofpoint Research. Standard “sextortion” attacks, in which would-be-hackers threaten to expose a target’s “prurient” online activity if not paid a ransom in cryptocurrency, are so last year. Savvy hackers are now adding a… Read More

November 8, 2018 @ 10:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

On November 3rd, hackers successfully sandwiched crypto-stealing code into the middle of a popular web traffic-measuring plugin from StatCounter, which is now used on more than two million websites, including government sites, WeLiveSecurity reports. Because the infected software creates a new bitcoin address for every site… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 1:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Cybercrime detectives have stormed a house in Sydney, Australia and arrested a 23-year-old woman they believe hacked 100 000 Ripple (XRP) tokens from a 56-year-old man, Brisbane Times (BT) rep The woman’s parents also reside in the house. The alleged hack took place last January, when 100… Read More

October 12, 2018 @ 11:36 am By Cali Haan  |  

One of two young men suspected of hacking $14 million in crypto from the Crowd Machine project in September has now been tied to a $2 million April hack on ICO investor and influencer Ian Balina, Motherboard reports. Fletcher Robert Childers, 23, and Joseph Harris,… Read More

October 11, 2018 @ 1:50 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has announced that its acquisition by “investment support services” firm FISCO has been finalized and says it will compensate users affected by a $60 million dollar hack that occurred September 14th: “On 10 October, the Company concluded the business of our virtual currency… Read More

October 4, 2018 @ 5:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Players of the ultra-popular video game Fortnite may soon add a disappointment dance to their repertoire as they are increasingly targeted by malware aimed at their Bitcoin. Researchers at the anti-virus and anti-malware company Malwarebytes say they have found malware targeting victims’ crypto holdings hidden… Read More

October 4, 2018 @ 11:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Tech Bureau, owner of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif, which was recently hacked for more than $60 million USD, says that although it is suspending new account registrations at the exchange, negotiations for the company’s acquisition by FISCO are still underway. According to a release… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 10:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

A local division of Japan’s Finance Ministry has given the company Tech Bureau two days to explain the causes of and company response to a $60 million hack on the Zaif crypocurrency exchange that took place last weekend. On Friday September 14th, hackers spent two… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 11:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) and a crypto industry self-regulatory body have both taken action following last week’s $60 million hack on licensed Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif, Cointelegraph reports. The hack, which has been publicly acknowledged by the company, took place over two hours on Friday,… Read More

September 20, 2018 @ 3:11 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A licensed crypto exchange in Japan has been hacked for an estimated 6.7 billion yen ($60 million USD), two-thirds of which belonged to customers, Nikkei Asian Review reports. The exchange, Zaif, which is licensed in Japan, reportedly did not discover the hack for three days. Three… Read More

September 20, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have used the EOS cryptocurrency platform’s own token-generating service to create a knock-off “EOS” token then steal about $58 000 of real crypto from users of the “decentralized” crypto exchange Newdex, The Next Web reports. Newdex reportedly issued a statement confirming the hack: “EOS account oo1122334455 issued 1,000,000,000 fake… Read More

August 25, 2018 @ 9:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has claimed that hackers with possible ties to North Korea have struck against an unnamed crypto exchange using malware targeting macOS. Kaspersky lab attributes the latest hack to the Lazarus hack group. According to Wikipedia, the Lazarus Group earned its… Read More

August 10, 2018 @ 10:35 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers with poor spelling annoyed one of the world’s largest golf promoters this week by seizing some relatively benign files and demanding a bitcoin ransom for their return, Golfweek reports. On Tuesday, staff at the Professional Golfer’s Association of America  (PGA) tried to access computer… Read More

August 9, 2018 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Another day, another crypto hack. About two weeks ago, KICKICO revealed that 70 million KICK tokens had been pilfered by a hacker at a value of around $7.7 million – peanuts in the ICO hacking space. On July 26th, KICKICO said the security breach had… Read More

August 8, 2018 @ 9:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Relatively loose Japanese laws designed to facilitate the use of cryptocurrencies at the retail level will soon be revised to reflect their actual use as speculative investments, Japan Times reports. Initial laws enshrined in April 2017 made Japan was one of the first powerhouse economies… Read More

July 14, 2018 @ 1:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The grand jury indictment filed in Washington Friday by the Mueller team claims multiple units of Russian spies used bitcoins in, “large-scale cyber operations to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” Although cybersecurity experts recently warned the US Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

ThetaRay, an AI and big data analytics in the cyber crime prevention space, has closed on a funding round of $30 million. The round was said to be “significantly oversubscribed” with investors like Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), GE, Bank Hapoalim, SVB Investments, OurCrowd,  and others joining… Read More

July 1, 2018 @ 10:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital challenger bank Monzo reported on Friday that Typeform, a company they have utilized for user surveys, experienced a data breach that impacted some of their users. Tom Blomfield, CEO of Monzo, published a post on the Monzo blog outlining the attack. Monzo was quick… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 7:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital Currency Dash CEO Ryan Taylor has been hacked. According to a statement released by Dash reps Taylor was the target of a concerted attack that impacted not just his Twitter account but LinkedIn and perhaps his cell phone too. Taylor released the following statement;… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

The cofounders of Parity.io, a company that lost or lost access to nearly half a billion dollars of client funds last year, have stated in a blog post today that they are “deeply sorry” and have no intention of forking the Ethereum blockchain to recover… Read More