Cybersecurity firm Banbreach reports that nearly 30,000 routers in India are infected with cryptojacking software. A recent report by security company Banbreach has found that in the past month, the number of routers compromised by cryptojacking software in India has doubled. The report indicates that hackers have cracked over 30,000 routers within the country, Hard […]
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It may not be much of a surprise to see a store clerk accept payment via smartphone, but recently, mPOS solutions are seeing increased implementation, beyond their traditional use by brick-and-mortar businesses. The flexibility, portability and business management features have seemingly made mPOS solutions attractive to a variety of industries. As a result, mPOS solutions […]
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Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has found malware that targets the Bitcoin wallet addresses of players of the highly popular Fortnite video game. Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has found that scammers are using malware that targets the Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses of Fortnite gamers, according to a post published October 2. Fortnite is currently one of the most […]
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A new report from cybersecurity experts at FireEye claims a North Korea-led cyber campaign has swindled banks of hundreds of millions of dollars since 2014, and continues to operate as an “active and dangerous” entity. Analysts estimate the group has attempted to steal more than $1.1 billion. According to Wednesday (Oct. 3) reports in the […]
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Mining malware in 2018: growth, Macs, the NSA and amateur cryptojackers 2017 was a big year for cryptojacking. It increased by 8,500 percent, according to figures published by Symantec in March. And it would seem that 2018 has so far been an even bigger year for mining malware, as the Cyber Threat Alliance September report […]
Continue ReadingScrabble has added the word ‘bitcoin’ to the list of words that players can officially use in its popular board game, CNBC reported. That is, Merriam-Webster included the cryptocurrency in its newest official dictionary for Scrabble. According to its dictionary, bitcoin is defined as “a digital currency.” How many points can a player score by […]
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Crypto mining malware has risen by 86% in Q2, with 2.5 million new malware coin miner samples, according to a McAfee Labs report. The number of crypto mining malware attacks used by hackers has continued rising, with total samples growing by 86% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest threat report by […]
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Monero devs have created a patch for a bug that could allow an attacker to burn consumers’ funds and trigger significant damage. The developers of open-source cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) have patched a bug that could allow an attacker to “burn” the funds of an organization’s wallet while only losing network transaction fees, according to an […]
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There is a new social engineering attack on Mac users who discuss cryptocurrency investing in Slack and Discord groups. The attacker first presents themselves as the administrator of the various chat groups, and asks the victims to type a command into the terminal window. The result is that a 34 mb file is downloaded, which […]
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The digital currency market is growing, and with growth, we can only expect growing pains. Among these are the latest reports of hackers and digital currency theft. There was the BitGrail hack, which resulted in $170 million in NANO disappearing, and there was the Browsealoud plugin hack where an intruder injected Monero mining JavaScript into […]
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