A GitHub user accidentally triggered a flaw in the Parity Wallet library contract of the standard multi-sig contract that locked up $280 million in Ether. Ethereum made again the headlines, someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in Ether, including $90 million raised by Parity Technologies’s founder Gavin Woods. The […]
Attackers scanned for the entire IPv4 range and look for Ethereum miners with open SSH connections. Hackers target Ethereum-mining farms in the attempt to hijack the funds by replacing the userâs wallet with their one. The attacks were first spotted on Monday, threat actors attempted to change the default configuration of Ethereum miners. “Illicit digital currency mining, either directly […]
The Etherparty website is the last victim in order of time of a cyber attack involving an Ethereum ICO (Initial Coin Offering). Another hack involving an Ethereum ICO (Initial Coin Offering) made the headlines, the victim is the Etherparty website that sells tokens for a blockchain-based smart contract tool. The attackers replaced the legitimate address for sending funds to […]
Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]
Two researchers have devised a cryptocurrency scheme dubbed DDoSCoin that pays everytime a user participates in a DDoS attack against certain servers. The assistant professor at the University of Colorado Eric Wustrow and the phD student at the University of Michigan Benjamin VanderSloot have conducted a curious proof-of-concept project aimed at the creation of a cryptocurrency that […]
Hackers of the anti-Terrorism group Ghost Security Group have discovered ISIL militants had a bitcoin address containing 3 Million Dollars. We have been dismayed by the recent Paris attacks, fear, disgust and anger are the emotions that many of us have felt seeing the images from the France. While the Islamic State (ISIS) was claiming the […]