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Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2017
South Korea cryptocurrency exchange Youbit shuts down after second hack in 2017

The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit has gone bankrupt after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit shuts down after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The company announced bankrupt on Tuesday after being hacked for the second time in the last eight months, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2017
Zealot Campaign leverages NSA exploits to deliver Monero miners of both Windows and Linux servers

Security researchers spotted a sophisticated malware campaign, tracked as Zealot campaign targeting Linux and Windows servers to install Monero miners. Security researchers from F5 Networks spotted a sophisticated malware campaign, tracked as Zealot campaign (after the name zealot.zip, one of the files dropped on targeted servers), targeting Linux and Windows servers to install Monero cryptocurrency miners. The campaign was detected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2017
The Russian pipeline giant Transneft infected with a Monero cryptocurrency miner

The Russian pipeline giant Transneft admitted its computers were used for mining Monero cryptocurrency, the company removed the malware from its computers. The Russian pipeline giant Transneft announced its systems were infected with a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The company confirmed it has successfully removed the threat from its systems, the company spokesman Igor Demin told Reuters the cryptomining […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2017
Germany – Court rules against foreign intelligence agency (BND) surveillance

According to a German court, the BND must not store the metadata of international phone calls for the purpose of intelligence analysis. Just a week ago, we discussed the German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products and to allow its unit to hack back, now German […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2017
A collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text leaked credentials is available online

A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
NiceHash: security breach leads to 60 million lost – Iceman is behind?

NiceHash has been hacked, roughly to 60$ million (4,736.42 BTC) have been stolen while the bitcoin is crossing the 14k$ mark for the first time. A dark day for cryptocurrency miners, NiceHash has been hacked. Closely to 60$ millions (4,736.42 BTC) have been stolen while the bitcoin is crossing the 14k$ mark for the first […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2017
German Government prepares Law for backdoors and hacking back

The German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products and to allow its unit to hack back. The German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products. The law aims to allow law enforcement agencies to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
Google Unwanted Software Policy – It’s a fight against snooping apps

Google has expanded enforcement of Google’s Unwanted Software Policy waring Android developers to explicitly declare data collection behaviors. A few days ago, Google was caught collecting users’ location data even when location services were disabled, many privacy experts questioned the behavior of the tech giant. Google promptly admitted the practice and suspended it. Now Google made another move to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2017
Cryptocurrency Miners hidden in websites now run even after users close the browser

Some websites use a simple trick to keep their cryptocurrency miners scripts running in the background even when the user has closed the browser window. Website administrators and crooks are looking with an increasing interest at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners due to rapid increase in cryptocurrency prices. These scripts exploit the CPU power of their visitor’s PC to mine Bitcoin […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2017
US Judge Orders Coinbase to hand over details of 14,355 US citizens to the IRS

A federal judge in the California court has ruled that cryptocurrency exchange portal Coinbase must hand over details of over 14,000 users to the US IRS. In November 2016, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force the US-based cryptocurrency exchange portal to […]