CRYPTOCURRENCIES COULD COME under renewed regulatory scrutiny over the next four years if Janet Yellen, Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, gets her way. During Yellen’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked Yellen about the use of cryptocurrency by terrorists and other criminals. “Cryptocurrencies are a particular concern,” […]
Binance Holdings Limited, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed to intentionally deceive regulators and surreptitiously profit from crypto investors in the United States, according to a document thought to be created by its senior executives and obtained by Forbes. Cayman Islands-based Binance is currently responsible for about $10 billion in […]
A hacking group going by the name Darkside has reportedly tried to donate around $20,000 in stolen bitcoin to charity. The gang posted receipts for two $10,000 bitcoin donations to The Water Project and Children International on a dark web blog post, the BBC reported along with screenshots of the transactions.Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are often used […]
A brute force attack on a Bitcoin private key is, in theory, much like a brute force attack on any regular password. An exhaustive search of possible combinations is carried out before a private key combination is identified. In reality, brute force attacks on a Bitcoin private key are as close to mathematically impossible as it gets. A private key is […]
In 2014, the operators of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Mt. Gox, disclosed that hackers had drained 650,000 Bitcoin (worth about $500 million at the time). The ensuing chaos gave Michael Gronager, founder and CEO of Chainalysis, an idea: Since blockchain ledgers are public, what if someone created a tool that sifted through all of that data and traced the […]
Advances in cryptography have not met with user enthusiasm, suggesting a disconnect between the cryptocurrency community and its cypherpunk ancestors. According to Coin Metrics, transactions of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies zcash (ZEC), monero (XMR), and grin only add up to 6% of bitcoin’s transactions. Zcash’s privacy feature is significantly underutilized, with less than 2% of transactions fully shielded. Although […]
Security researchers at Slovak security firm ESET have discovered a new family of malware that they say has been using a variety of techniques to steal cryptocurrency from unsuspecting users since at least December 2018. The malware, which has been named KryptoCibule, uses a variety of legitimate technology – including Tor and the Transmission torrent client […]
Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Monero.”Based on recent computer break-ins in Europe and elsewhere, this type of software watchdog will soon be crucial to prevent cryptocurrency miners […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts” on Thursday, including “millions of dollars” and 300 crypto accounts. In a press release Thursday, the DOJ announced it had investigated and dismantled “three terrorist financing cyber-enabled campaigns” involving al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant […]
A new trojan attack using malware called GMERA is targeting cryptocurrency traders who use trading applications on Apple’s macOS. The internet security company ESET found that the malware comes integrated into legitimate-looking cryptocurrency trading applications and tries to steal users’ crypto funds from their wallets. Researchers at another cybersecurity firm Trend Micro first discovered GMERA malware in […]
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