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Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling it
2021-06-03 06:51

NortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn't want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite. The company says, funnily enough, a better approach is to have its computer security software mine Ethereum while it runs, then store the results in the Norton cloud.

Norton 360 antivirus now lets you mine Ethereum cryptocurrency
2021-06-02 17:19

NortonLifelock has added the ability to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency directly within its Norton 360 antivirus program as a way to "Protect" users from malicious mining software. When Norton Crypto is enabled, the software will use the device's graphics card to mine for Ethereum, which will then be transferred into a Norton wallet hosted in the cloud.

Twitter scammers earned over $145k this week in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge
2021-02-26 22:00

Cryptocurrency scammers have made at least $145,000 this week by promoting fake giveaways through hacked verified Twitter accounts. At the time, these scams pulled in a massive $580,000 in cryptocurrency over a one-week period.

Hackers Steal $49 Million in Ethereum From Upbit Exchange
2019-11-28 18:03

$158 Million Stolen So Far This Year From Cryptocurrency ExchangesSouth Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit says hackers have stolen $49 million worth of ethereum, in what is the year's seventh...

Hackers Steal $49 Million in Ethereum From Cryptocurrency Exchange Upbit
2019-11-27 12:53

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit today announced that hackers managed to steal $49 million in Ethereum. The crypto-coins were transferred from the Upbeat Ethereum Hot Wallet to an...

Stealing Ethereum by Guessing Weak Private Keys
2019-04-29 11:39

Someone is stealing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum by guessing users' private keys. Normally this should be impossible, but lots of keys seem to be very weak. Researchers are unsure how...

Blochainbandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys
2019-04-25 11:57

Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.

Ethereum Classic (ETC) Hit by Double-Spend Attack Worth $1.1 Million
2019-01-08 11:33

Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has suspended all transactions of Ethereum Classic (ETC)—the original unforked version of the Ethereum network—on their trading platforms, other products...

Criminal mastermind injects malicious script into Ethereum tracker. Their message? '1337'
2018-07-25 10:56

Etherscan XSS snafu could have been much, much worse Ethereum-tracking website Etherscan has resolved a cross-site scripting issue on its domain.…

Hackers Stole Over $20 Million in Ethereum from Insecurely Configured Clients
2018-06-11 10:33

Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet....