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Your Seagate Central NAS could be hosting mining malware

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If you have discovered cryptocurrency mining malware on your system, have removed it, and got compromised again without an idea about how it happened, it could be that the source of the infection is the Seagate Central NAS sitting on your network. The malware Sophos researchers recently analyzed a newer version of a malware that’s set on mining the Monero (XMR), a new digital cryptocurrency that is much easier to mine than Bitcoin. Mal/Miner-C, as … More → Continue reading Your Seagate Central NAS could be hosting mining malware→

$77 million in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex exchange

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Popular Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has suffered a security breach that resulted in the theft of millions’ worth of Bitcoin. 119,756 BTC, to be exact, which amounts to some $77 million – or did, before news of the hack spread and resulted in a 20 percent drop of the price of Bitcoin. Bitfinex still doesn’t know how the attack was pulled off, and is collaborating with law enforcement on the investigation into what happened. … More → Continue reading $77 million in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex exchange→

The DAO is under attack, a third of its ether reserves stolen

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The DAO, a digital Decentralised Autonomous Organisation that has been set up to support projects related to Ethereum, a public blockchain platform that allows programmable transactions, has been hit by unknown attackers that are draining its ether (cryptocurrency) reserves. Users who have invested their ether in DAO get a token that allows them to vote on which projects will get funded by the organization and, hopefully, get dividends once the project is successful. According to … More → Continue reading The DAO is under attack, a third of its ether reserves stolen→