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AG Schneiderman sent letters to 13 exchanges including Coinbase and Bitfinex asking for information on their operations. Continue reading New York Attorney General Launches Inquiry Into 13 Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Criminals trying to get their hands on victims’ cryptocurrency stashes are trying out various approaches. The latest one includes equipping malware with Man-in-the-Browser capabilities so they can hijack online accounts and perform fraudulent tra… Continue reading Malware leverages web injects to empty users’ cryptocurrency accounts
Binance, the popular Chinese cryptocurrency exchange with a focus on crypto-to-crypto trading, has put a $250,000 bounty on the heads of the hackers who tried to pull off a heist earlier this month by compromising user accounts. The attack The attack u… Continue reading Binance offers $250,000 for info about hackers who targeted its users
Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the “Big Bitcoin Heist.”
To make a profit, so far criminals have hacked cryptocurrency… Continue reading 600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland
Following the recent hack of Japanese exchange service Coincheck, $534 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the company’s “hot wallet”. With the investigation revealing that hackers remained undetected for an estimated eigh… Continue reading Coincheck Hack Ghosts $534 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency
Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, losing $532 million in digital assets (nearly $420 million in NEM tokens and $112 in Ripples).
In 2014, Mt Gox, one … Continue reading Someone Stole Almost Half a BILLION Dollars from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange
As many non-tech savvy people think that Bitcoin looks like a Gold coin as illustrated in many stock images, perhaps these robbers also planned to rob a cryptocurrency exchange thinking that way.
All jokes apart, we saw one such attempt on Tuesday mor… Continue reading Yikes! Three armed men tried to rob a Bitcoin Exchange in Canada
Pavel Lerner, a prominent Russian blockchain expert and known managing director of one of the major crypto-exchanges EXMO, has allegedly been kidnapped by “unknown” criminals in the Ukranian capital of Kiev.
According to Ukraine-based web publication … Continue reading CEO of Major UK-Based Cryptocurrency Exchange Kidnapped in Ukraine
Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of their efforts to steal skyrocketing cryptocurrency.
NiceHa… Continue reading Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen
The extraordinary volatility of the price of bitcoin has spurred speculators to employ a wide variety of tricks to make it swing between extremes, so that they can take advantage of it. The unregulated nature of the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes it po… Continue reading DDoS attackers increasingly targeting cryptocurrency exchanges