Category: Security & Ransomware
Bitcoin, Tor and Botnets – Creating a New Market
The advent of darknets, along with the popularization of cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin, have helped hackers market their services, throughout the past few years, via…
Bitcoin Infrastructure, Blockchain Infrastructure, Blockchain Technology, FinTech & Blockchain, Security & RansomwareHijacking Bitcoin – Network Routing Attacks on Bitcoin’s Network
Being the most successful and most popular cryptocurrency to date, bitcoin represents an attractive target for hackers and cybercriminals. Even though most attack vectors…
Bitcoin Address Clustering (New Heuristics) – Part 1
Bitcoin address clustering is a process that attempts to de-anonymize bitcoin users via discovering all addresses generated by a single user, via means of analysis…
InterContinental Hotels Group Affected by Credit Card Breach
Credit card theft is slowly becoming the norm rather than an exception. Millions of credit card details have been stolen by hackers over the years…
Cheap Android Mobile Device Users Spied Upon By Chinese Software Company
Any story related to the Internet of Things these days will be considered controversial. In the case of one Chinese technology firm, they clearly overstepped…
DCMA Changes Give White Hats Carte Blanche To Hack All Kinds of Technology
White hat hacking is subject to many misconceptions. A lot of people feel that hacking is unethical regardless of whether it is done by the…
Darknet Users Sentenced To Jail For Buying Train Tickets With Stolen Credit Cards
Many people associate Bitcoin usage with the darknet, and there is a certain truth to that story. However, criminals use the deep web for selling…
Bitcoin Baron Indicted For Several DDoS Attacks Against US Cities
People familiar with the Bitcoin scene may have heard of the ‘Bitcoin Baron” in the past. This man, known as Randall Charles Tucker, was behind…
BIP 151 Plans To Encrypt Peer-to-Peer Communication
A recent BIP proposal was pulled by Bitcoin developer Jonas Schnelli with the title “ Peer-to-Peer Communication Encryption.” The change would encrypt peer traffic making…
