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A trader earned $500,000 on cryptocurrency in half an hour

15 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Danyakot $0.04

An unknown person attacked the Ethereum network to be the first to buy tokens during the initial placement on the exchange, and then sold them at an inflated price to other, late users An unknown trader earned almost $500 thousand in cryptocurrency...

Will AI rescue the world from the impending doom of cyber-attacks or be the cause

7 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.28

There has been a good deal of publicized chatter about impending cyberattacks at an unprecedented scale and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help stop them.  Not surprisingly much of the discussion is led by AI vendors in the cybersecurity spac...

Oups, i did it again! Third and fourth hack on Balancer pools

30 Jun 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78 $0.16

Yesterday, June 29th, two of the multi-token pools on DeFi platform Balancer were drained of ~$450,000. The attacker conducted the attack in two separate flashloan transactions by draining one liquidity pool until close to zero. The firm’s co-founder...

Hacking group CryptoCore has stolen $200 million since 2018

25 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn $0.10

The hackers have been mostly attacking Crypto exchanges in the U.S & Japan, according to a new report   Cryptocurrency businesses have seen an increasing threat from nefarious players over the years in a variety of ways — malware, ransomware and...

How a Bitcoin address was cracked? Took just 30 hours.

19 Jun 2020 2 minute read 1 comment noBeans $0.30

Recently Alistair Milne organized a 1 BTC giveaway of sorts. For those that don't know Alistair Milne, he is a well known investor and entrepreneur. Milne woke up to a news that could easily be life altering and devastating to many. But for him it wa...

Intel Designs Chips to Protect from ROP Attacks

16 Jun 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Matthew Rosenquist $1.29

Intel comes late to the game but will be delivering an embedded defense for Return Oriented Programming (ROP) types of cyber hacks. I first blogged about this back in Sept of 2016. Yes, almost four years have passed and I had hoped it would see the...

Expert Panel Discusses Cybersecurity in the New Normal

9 Jun 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist $1.40

Watch panelists Chris Roberts, G. Mark Hardy, and Matthew Rosenquist at VShield 2020 I had the honor to be on a distinguished panel with the incredibly knowledgeable G. Mark Hardy and the infamous white-hat hacker Chris Roberts.  We discussed the ev...

Supercomputers Across Europe Targeted in Crypto-mining Attack last month.

7 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Blockchain Times $0.07

SuperComputers in several countries across Europe, including Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and the UK, have reported cyber Cryptojacking attacks on their systems, and have been working to remove the threat. To understand the Cryptojacking read my arti...

Reverse Engineering Basics - Cyber Security Essentials

6 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments andro $0.10

What is Reverse Engineering? Reverse engineering programs is required when you need to know how something works but don't have the source code available. Consider the following example: You want to find vulnerabilities in some proprietary piece of so...

Hackers Threaten to Use Stolen Data from Coinsquare for SIM Swapping

5 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Khonnile $0.06

      More than 5,000 email addresses and other personal information obtained from Canadian crypto exchange Coinsquare may be used in SIM swapping attacks. Hackers got their hands on personal data on users from Coinsquare's database, and Vice's Moth...