Bitcoin
The Multi-Million Pound Manchester United Hack
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about the Manchester City Billion Pound Hack, which explored cyberattacks within elite football. Now it is the turn of City big rivals Manchester United, ...
Coinbit Seizure: Why New Cryptocurrency Exchanges Conduct Wash Trading
On Aug. 26, the South Korean newspaper Seoul Shinmun published a report stating that 99% of transaction volume was faked through wash trading on Coinbit, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in ...
Bitcoin Exchange Owner Convicted for Role in Web Auction Fraud Scheme
A federal jury convicted the owner of a bitcoin exchange for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme involving online auction fraud. On September 28, a federal jury in Frankfort, Kentucky found ...
Hackers Steal $150 Million from Asian Cryptocurrency Exchange
KuCoin, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has disclosed a security incident that resulted in the unauthorized transfer of roughly $150 million in digital assets. In a notice published last week, KuCoin notified clients that it ...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Eterbase Loses $5.4 Million to Hackers Overnight
A group of hackers on Monday night compromised cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase and raided six hot wallets to steal $5.4 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand, and TRON. The criminals transferred the ...
Ransomware Attack Halts Border Crossing for Four Hours in Argentina
In a rare occurrence, ransomware operators have managed to halt border crossing into and out of Argentina for four hours after infecting the National Direction of Migration with data-crippling malware. Government officials ...
Cyber Security Roundup for August 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, July 2020.The standout hack of July 2020, and possibly of ...
On the Twitter Hack
Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system ...
Twitter Releases New Details About Recent Hack of High-Profile Accounts
Social media giant Twitter is sharing updates coming out of the second day of investigations into this week’s hack of high-profile accounts by Bitcoin scammers. Avid readers will recall that Twitter recently ...
Cybercriminals Take Over Famous Twitter Accounts, Start Bitcoin Scam
Several high-profile Twitter accounts, including those belonging to Apple, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, started to tweet in support of a Bitcoin scam, promising to double the money that people would send ...
