$40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen from Binance cryptocurrency exchange

Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, says that it has suffered a security breach that saw hackers steal more than $40 million worth of Bitcoin. A statement issued by the company says that it discovered t… Continue reading $40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen from Binance cryptocurrency exchange

Amazon Shoppers Can Now Pay with Bitcoin on the Platform

Bitcoin payments are now an option on Amazon, and other ecommerce platforms will accept them by 2020 thanks to a startup, a browser extension and the lightning network, writes Coindesk. Bitcoin processes only 7 transactions per second, while Visa handl… Continue reading Amazon Shoppers Can Now Pay with Bitcoin on the Platform

ThinkPHP 5.x Remote Code Execution

Earlier this year, we noticed an increase in attacks aiming at ThinkPHP, which is a PHP framework that is very popular in Asia.
If you keep track of your site’s activity, the following log may look familiar:
POST: /index.php?s=captcha HTTP/1.1
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Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 4: TLS – Applied Cryptographic Foundations

You made it to part 4! Here’s a quick overview of what we have broken down so far. We started with some basic vocabulary for cryptographic building blocks and talked about hash functions in Part 1, were introduced to symmetric ciphers, keys, and … Continue reading Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 4: TLS – Applied Cryptographic Foundations

Is Your Token a Security? The SEC Wants to Help You Figure That Out.

The SEC has issued a “Framework for ‘Investment Contract’ Analysis of Digital Assets” (the ‘Framework’) that provides the Division of Corporation Finance’s guidance on how to evaluate whether digital asse… Continue reading Is Your Token a Security? The SEC Wants to Help You Figure That Out.

Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja

We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This was discovered when reviewing sources of the var… Continue reading Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja

Apple Credit Card: Not So Secure, nor Private

Apple Card is here. It boasts anti-fraud security features and interesting privacy promises. But is there much that’s new here? Probably not.
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BSS: Dow Jones, TurboTax, and Indane data breaches

Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: 

Dow Jones’ watchlist of high-risk individuals breached

$7.7 million in EOS cryptocurrency stolen by hacker

TurboTax credential stuffing attacks exposes tax returns

US security… Continue reading BSS: Dow Jones, TurboTax, and Indane data breaches

Bitglass Security Spotlight: 500px, Card Dumps, and UW Medicine

Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: 

500px discovers 2018 data breach affecting 15 million users
Sensitive credit card information worth $3.5 million put up for sale
University of Washington Medicine exposes information of ne… Continue reading Bitglass Security Spotlight: 500px, Card Dumps, and UW Medicine

Cyberthreats Your Business Isn’t Prepared For

You have backups in the event your business is hit by ransomware. You have prepared PR statements should there be any kind of customer data breach. You have been careful to keep all software updated, and you train your employees on cyber hygiene at lea… Continue reading Cyberthreats Your Business Isn’t Prepared For