Bitcoin

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2020
Someone emptied a $1 billion BitCoin wallet ahead of Presidential Election

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election a mysterious transaction was noticed by cyber security experts and researchers. Someone has transferred almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet to another wallet. It is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2020
Hackers stole more than $150 million from KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a security breach, hackers stole $150 million from its hot wallets. Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a major security incident, the hackers breached its hot wallets and stole all the funds, around $150 million. Deposits and withdrawals have been temporarily suspended while the company is investigating the security incident. “We […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2020
INVDoS, a severe DoS issue in Bitcoin core remained undisclosed for two years

The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service)Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability (INVDoS), tracked as CVE-2018-17145, that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2020
Hacker stole $250K from decentralized Bitcoin exchange Bisq

Cryptocurrency exchange Bisq stopped trading activities due to a cyberattack, crooks have stolen $250,000 worth of virtual currency from the company. The decentralized exchange (DEX) Bisq rang stopped trading activities late Tuesday night after it uncovered a critical security vulnerability that was exploited by a hacker to steal more than $250,000 worth of cryptocurrency from […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2020
The Altsbit exchange will exit in May following a hack

The Italy-based cryptocurrency exchange Altsbit announced that it has suffered a security breach that led to the theft of its customer’s funds. Crypto-currency exchange Altsbit recently disclosed a security breach, the company claimed that hackers have stolen almost all its customers’ deposits.  The Italian cryptocurrency trading firm disclosed the incident on February 5, only a “small […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2019
InnfiRAT Trojan steals funds from Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets

Researchers at Zscaler have spotted a new malware dubbed InnfiRAT that infects victims’ systems to steal cryptocurrency wallet data.  Researchers at Zscaler have discovered a new Trojan dubbed InnfiRAT that implements many standard Trojan capabilities along with the ability to steal cryptocurrency wallet data.  “As with just about every piece of malware, InnfiRAT is designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2019
Hacker will compensate victims with $1.1 million Bitcoin illegally earned

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 July 12, 2019
Hackers stole $32 million from Bitpoint cryptocurrency exchange

BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency. BITPoint discovered the security breach […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2019
Android Apps uses a novel technique to by-pass 2FA and steal Bitcoin

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 June 07, 2019
Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacks itself to protect its users’ funds from hackers

The Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself to protect the funds of its users and avoid that hackers steal them exploiting a flaw in its Agama wallet. The story I’m going to tell you is amazing, the Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself after discovered a backdoor in its Agama wallet. Komodo’s Agama Wallet allows users to […]