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2020 on track to become a record-breaking year for crypto-related thefts

4 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn

Almost $1.4 billion in Cryptocurrency stolen in the first five months of 2020 Blockchain and Crypto analytics company CipherTrace, which provides actionable intelligence to government agencies and businesses, has just published the Crypto & Anti Mone...

Get rid of your password, seriously!

31 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Kudzie

The only people who love passwords are hackers because they are easy for hackers to guess and hard for humans to remember. Passwords are the weakest link. 81% of breaches are due to a weak or stolen password. Recently I downloaded the Medium mobile a...

BlockFi data breach and the user compensation ($25)

27 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78

As i was telling to you few days ago in this blog post, apparently there was a data breach into BlockFi app, but the problem was solved quick, and no important data was accessed. Just the mailing list for the commercial and marketing purpose (name, e...

More cyber attacks in the coronations era.

24 May 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Aristos

Regardless of whether it's the automotive industry or gastronomy, there are openings in all sectors of the economy. On the internet, however, there has been incredible traffic all this time, as too many people spend many hours in front of the submari...

Computers across Europe have been attacked by hackers

18 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Aristos

Computers across Europe have been compromised by an unknown group that introduced cryptocurrency mining software. At least a dozen supercomputers have been targeted in Germany , the United Kingdom , Switzerland and Spain , with many being offline as...

10 Areas of Change in Cybersecurity for 2020

12 May 2020 5 minute read 6 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Cybersecurity in 2020 will be evolutionary but not revolutionary.  Although there is always change and churn, much of the foundational drivers remain relatively stable.  Attacks in the next 12 months are likely to persist in ways already known but ta...

22 More Crypto-Stealing Google Chrome Extensions Discovered

8 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Tokenhell.com

22 More Crypto-Stealing Google Chrome Extensions Discovered A security researcher has discovered another 22 Google Chrome web browser extensions built to steal their user’s cryptocurrencies. Cybersecurity news outlet, Naked Security, reported on May...

How Spankchain Got Hacked

26 Apr 2020 6 minute read 7 comments alexroan

Introduction Spankchain is a decentralised platform for the adult entertainment industry. In 2018, one of their Smart Contracts was attacked and drained of around 165 Ether. The Spankchain team published an overview of the attack when they discovered...

Bitcoin Thief Infected Over 700 Libraries of a Major Programming Language

22 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments geostima

Long story short: A few days ago the cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs (https://www.reversinglabs.com/) revealed an attack that targeted Ruby developers who also happen to be crypto-enthusiasts and who are using windows as their operating system of ch...

Iearn.Finance users dodged a bullet yesterday with the LendfMe hack

19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DefiMoon

                                                                          Programmatic yield chasers like Iearn.Finance and Idle.Finance have become popular with the rise of the defi economy on ethereum. What better hands-off way to earn passive inco...