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GUEST ESSAY: Tapping Bitcoin’s security — to put a stop to ‘51% attacks’ of cryptocurrency exchanges

The Last Watchdog

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. However, there are solutions blockchains can adopt to drastically increase their security without attracting any more mining power.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Security firm FireEye dubbed that hacking blitz “one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years.” Security analysts and U.S. Image: FBI.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The BHProxies website. The website BHProxies[.]com Hope you are doing well.

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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

Security Affairs

However, some security researchers believe that Anonymous Sudan is a sub-group of the pro-Russian threat group Killnet. Skynet was first discovered in 2012 and has since grown to become one of the largest botnets in the world. .” reads the message published on the group’s Telegram channel.

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service. A 2012 sales thread on Darkode for Rev Locker. In December 2017, $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from NiceHash coffers. In October 2019, Skorjanc was arrested in Germany in response to a U.S. .”

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. Technical Analysis. The first folder to analyze is “a”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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