Content theft has persisted as one of the worst ills of the internet generation. Data breaches and identity thefts have always left victims with a sour taste. Bitcoin wallets have been hacked and owners’ wealth stolen on several cases. Are there ways to ultimately prevent one’s wallet from being hacked? Is there any way of recovering stolen funds from a hacked wallet? Are exchanges obliged to refund Bitcoins stolen from a virtual wallet? Every hoster of virtual wallets and exchanges will always inform wallet owners of the importance of employing sometimes very basic, and at other times a bit more …

It's been utilized for unlawful dark web drug dealing, it may very well be the future of banking, and it has driven theorists on a wild ride — Bitcoin is numerous things to numerous individuals. For an expanding number, in any case, the cryptocurrency is an apparatus for extortion. Bitcoin has been utilized before as a part of ransomware—a sort of malware that limits computer access unless a payment is paid—however another report from digital insight firm Recorded Future points out how criminals are progressively taking interest in Bitcoin as a method of payment for several types of attacks. Tyler …

The NSA has been spying on politicians and common citizens, domestically and abroad, for decades now. Now, a recent online hack of private documents has revealed that national governments are able to obtain software services to hack into Bitcoin and other private digital currency accounts through an Italian subcontractor. 400GB of documents captured from a popular international surveillance technology company called Hacking Team has been uncovered by CSO Online’s Steve Ragan. These documents reveal what spy technology is available and how much countries are investing in it. Bitcoin, Litecoin and other digital currency wallet hacks are one of many services …

On May 30, the author of the crypto-ransomware known as Locker posted an apology on Pastebin and claimed that he “never intended to release” the malware program. According to Threatpost.com, the author says he terminated distribution as of June 2 and that he has decrypted all infected files. The author said on Pastebin: " I am the author of the Locker ransomware and I'm very sorry about that has happened. It was never my intention to release this. I uploaded the database to mega.co.nz containing 'bitcoin address, public key, private key' as CSV. This is a dump of the complete …

Unredacted Adult FriendFinder hacked Data is on offer for 70 Bitcoin, a 1959 IBM Model 1401 mainframe can mine bitcoin, and more top stories for May 26. Adult FriendFinder hacked, sensitive data on offer for 70 BTC A hacker going by the username of ROR[RG] has revealed to be in possession of confidential data from Adult FriendFinder, a dating site that helps users find partners who meet their sexual fetishes. The data is up for sale at the price of 70 bitcoins. Given that the information on the site is extremely personal in nature, many of its users have reasons …

Western secret agencies partnership known as the "Five Eyes" launched a surveillance unit called Network Tradecraft Advancement Team (NTAT) to spy on smartphone users as well as a major Chinese mobile web browser. As top secret document obtained by Edward Snowden has revealed, they planned to hijack data and insert malware into Samsung devices with Google apps. The documents obtained by Edward Snowden and published by CBC on May 21, 2015, revealed plans from as early as 2011 from major spy agencies to attempt and compromise Google and Samsung servers to spy on their mobile users as well as a …

The notorious “Bitcoin Baron” hacker has been remanded in custody in Arizona following a six-month police investigation. The serial DDoS attacker, whose real name is Randall Charles Tucker, has openly written and gone on record about his favored practice of taking down websites of government authorities he considers to have committed injustices. The episode which ultimately led to his arrest, Open Ledger reports, involved a YouTube video and an email sent to Arizona local authorities threatening to compromise their systems following the release of a convicted felon who later committed murder. “Hello, My name is Bitcoin Baron and I have …

Random numbers, perhaps have different analogues among the humans and machines. Tossing a coin is assumed to be truly random for humans with the uniform distribution and probability of 0.5 to get heads or tails. However it’s a different story for machines. Determinism vs. Randomness Machines are created in a way to get an input, process the input and release the output. They only follow the patterns that are programmed. “Machines are deterministic, which means that if you ask the same question you’ll get the same answer every time,” says Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT’s Computer Science …

[UPDATE] A HitBTC represenative sent the following comment to Cointelegraph: "We have not confirmed that the attacks are connected, moreover, our hosting partners have not confirmed that the incident is actually a hacker attack. In our Terminal, you can see an official notice about the payment system downtime. No user funds were affected on our side. We will allow deposits/withdrawals as soon as we finish the security checks on our side. Appropriate security measures are being implemented on our side and we have a proactive security policy." As more details emerge about the latest hacking of exchanges Bter, Excoin and …

On December 8, Blockchain.info—a Bitcoin web wallet provider and block explorer—announced that they’d misfired a software update. The faulty update resulted in insecure private key generation for “less than 0.0002%” of their users for a few hours, and about 250 bitcoins were consequently reported stolen. An anonymous white hat (meaning well-intentioned) hacker going by “johoe” noticed the security problem and began sweeping coins from vulnerable addresses. Two days later on December 10, the white hat hacker emailed Blockchain.info and offered to return the 255 bitcoins to them, worth about US$90,000 at time of writing. Johoe apparently uses a Trezor hardware …

In a move no less curious than its previous attempts, China has blocked a popular Bitcoin website from being accessed on its domestic servers – but why? China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has long been the subject variously of wonder and bewilderment, and now it is the turn of arguably the most active Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk.org, to have the lights turned off. According to a Reddit thread, requests submitted to the testing site greatfirewallofchina.org came back unsuccessful from all provinces’ IP addresses at present. The shift in accessibility came as a surprise to many, especially as it seems to be a one-off …

Alleged leaked database containing 4,929,090 Gmail email addresses and related passwords was dumped on a Russian Bitcoin Security Forum. On September 9, user tvskit from Russian Bitcoin security forum BTCSec.com, first reported the dump of the 28.7 MB file containing more than 4.92 million of Gmail accounts and passwords, as well as several thousands of credentials from Russia's largest email service Yandex. According to the user, 60% of these credentials are valid. Since then, a forum administrator purged the passwords from it. A study showed that the compromised accounts mostly belonged to Russian, English and Spanish-speaking users of the Google …