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Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2019
UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 million) worth of Bitcoin from a prolific hacker, the funds will be used to compensate his victims. Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ The man was charged with multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Expert discovered a new technique bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication while circumventing Google’s recent SMS permissions restrictions The popular security expert Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered some apps (namedBTCTurk Pro Beta and BtcTurk Pro Beta) impersonating the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange, BtcTurk, in the attempt of stealing login credentials. In order to steal the 2FA OTPs the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Binance is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The latest attack of 2018 against cryptocurrency wallets and organizations in the cryptocurrency industry hit the popular Electrum wallets. Hackers hit Electrum Bitcoin wallet and stole over 200 bitcoin, more than $750,000. The attack started on December 21th, 2018, and hackers leveraged a critical vulnerability that was addressed in early 2018. The vulnerability could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2018
Hacker compromised third-party NodeJS module “Event-Stream” introducing a malicious code aimed at stealing funds in Bitcoin wallet apps. The malicious code was introduced in the version 3.3.6, published on September 9 via the Node Package Manager (NPM) repository. The Event-Stream library is a very popular NodeJS module used to allow developers the management of data streams, it has nearly 2 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts to implement a new fraud scheme. Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts (i.e. UK retailer Matalan, US publisher Pantheon Books, and official government Twitter accounts such as the Ministry of Transportation of Colombia and the National […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2018
Security experts Antonio Pirozzi and Pierluigi Paganini presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol. Security expert Antonio Pirozzi, director at ZLab malware lab at Cybaze firm, presented at the EU Cyber Threat Conference in Dublin conducted a research along with Pierluigi Paganini (aka @securityaffairs), about how crooks could abuse blockchain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2018
Purchasers of Bitcoin wallets usually have one priority topping their lists: security. What’s the truth about the security of these wallets? When buying conventional wallet coins and paper money, people often prioritize characteristics like the size, color, shape, and number of compartments. However, purchasers of Bitcoin wallets — the software programs that facilitate storing someone’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2018
Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The Bitcoin Core team urges miners to update client software with the latest Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 version as soon as possible. “A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
A sample of CryptoCurrency Clipboard Hijackers discovered this week by BleepingComputer monitors for more than 2.3 million addresses. Almost any people that have to send cryptocurrency coins use to copy the recipient wallet address into memory from one application and use it to make the transaction. Crooks’ interest in cryptocurrency continues to grow and new malware was specifically […]
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