cryptocurrency

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2017
A regular GitHub user accidentally triggered a flaw Ethereum Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether

A GitHub user accidentally triggered a flaw in the Parity Wallet library contract of the standard multi-sig contract that locked up $280 million in Ether. Ethereum made again the headlines, someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether, including $90 million raised by Parity Technologies’s founder Gavin Woods. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
Threat actors using default SSH credentials to hijack Ethereum miners

Attackers scanned for the entire IPv4 range and look for Ethereum miners with open SSH connections. Hackers target Ethereum-mining farms in the attempt to hijack the funds by replacing the user’s wallet with their one. The attacks were first spotted on Monday, threat actors attempted to change the default configuration of Ethereum miners. “Illicit digital currency mining, either directly […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2017
A new Ethereum ICO was hacked, the victim is Etherparty

The Etherparty website is the last victim in order of time of a cyber attack involving an Ethereum ICO (Initial Coin Offering). Another hack involving an Ethereum ICO (Initial Coin Offering) made the headlines, the victim is the Etherparty website that sells tokens for a blockchain-based smart contract tool. The attackers replaced the legitimate address for sending funds to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2016
Mal/Miner-C mining malware leverages NAS devices to spread itself

Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2016
DDoSCoin, the cryptocurrency that pays the participation in DDoS attacks

Two researchers have devised a cryptocurrency scheme dubbed DDoSCoin that pays everytime a user participates in a DDoS attack against certain servers. The assistant professor at the University of Colorado Eric Wustrow and the phD student at the University of Michigan Benjamin VanderSloot have conducted a curious proof-of-concept project aimed at the creation of a cryptocurrency that […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2015
Discovered an ISIL Bitcoin Address containing 3 Million dollars

Hackers of the anti-Terrorism group Ghost Security Group have discovered ISIL militants had a bitcoin address containing 3 Million Dollars. We have been dismayed by the recent Paris attacks, fear, disgust and anger are the emotions that many of us have felt seeing the images from the France. While the Islamic State (ISIS) was claiming the […]