Ethereum
Brothers Indicted for Stealing $25 Million of Ethereum in 12 Seconds
It took two brothers who went to MIT months to plan how they were going to steal, launder and hide millions of dollars in cryptocurrency -- and only 12 seconds to actually ...
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Book Review: The Crypto Launderers: Crime and CryptoCurrencies
The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond - by David Carlisle I wish I had a way to review this book without having first read ...
6 Ways Enterprises Can Secure Private Blockchains
Mark Dargin | | Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptography, enterprise blockchain, Ethereum, private blockchain
There has been significant growth in organizations deploying private blockchain technology. But despite its reputation, it is essential not to assume blockchain is secure just because it relies on cryptography. An appropriate ...
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FAIL: Nomad DeFi Bridge ‘Loses’ $190M of Worthless Tokens
Richi Jennings | | API exploit, blockchain, Crypto, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, DeFi, Ethereum, imaginary money, Moonbeam, Nomad, One step closer to ridding the world of web3 nonsense, Ponzi scheme, SB Blogwatch, smart contracts, Web3
Cryptocurrency startup Nomad claimed its “optimistic bridging” protocol would “would keep users’ funds safe.” We take a closer look ...
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Crypto.com: Fortune Favors the Hacker—$16M ‘Stolen’
Richi Jennings | | Crypto, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency exchange, DeFi, Ethereum, imaginary money, it’s not creating any new value in the way that regular economic activities do, SB Blogwatch
DeFi exchange Crypto.com got hacked yesterday, sources say. Users reported imaginary money missing from their accounts—as researchers watched it get laundered ...
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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Adi Robertson, Chris Vickery, Cory Doctorow, ETH, Ethereum, NCrypt.exe, Norton Crypto, NortonLifeLock, RadioShack, Symantec Corp.
Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers' computers. Norton's parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates ...
Hackers Steal $150 Million from Asian Cryptocurrency Exchange
KuCoin, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has disclosed a security incident that resulted in the unauthorized transfer of roughly $150 million in digital assets. In a notice published last week, KuCoin notified clients that it ...
Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree
BrianKrebs | | Binance, Danil Potekhin, Dmitirii Karasavidi, Ethereum, Gemini, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Poloniex, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Treasury Department
U.S. authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and ...
What About GandCrab’s $2 Billion? Ransomware Operators Pocketed Only $140 Million Over Six Years, FBI Calculates
Ryuk, Dharma, Bitpaymer, SamSam and other prominent ransomware strains have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for their authors, according to calculations by the FBI. Does that mean the GandCrab gang, which ...