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Extortion scheme gets national attention but not much in the way of funds Police departments around the US say they've been apprised of emailed bomb threats seeking payment in cryptocurrency or...
An email campaign is demanding large sums of money in return for not blowing up schools, banks and businesses.
A new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipient's building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by the end...
A mystery payload sneaked into a hugely popular JavaScript library was part of a plot to ransack Bitcoins from BitPay’s Copay mobile cryptocoin wallet, it has been alleged.
A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was...
A slew of verified Twitter accounts have been hijacked and altered, used to tweet out a bogus Bitcoin giveaway scam.
Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using. ESET...
The good news? Nobody appears to have lost any Bitcoin, says Gate.io This week's hijacking of StatCounter's JavaScript to swipe Bitcoins from a crypto-coin exchange was the result of a web cache...
Gate.io exchange believed to be target of embedded attack One of the top traffic metrics sites on the internet is reportedly being used by criminals to steal bitcoins from a currency exchange.…