How to Expose a Bitcoin Mining Scam
Recently we stumbled on a company – Foxminers LLC – supposedly offering cutting edge ASICs for unbeatable prices. The company claimed these ASICs are made with proprietary chips capable of …
Companies are paying hackers millions to discover security flaws
The internet has long been plagued by hackers who, more often than not, will even commit crimes in order to get paid. Although there are a lot of malicious …
Poloniex Altcoin Exchange Review
In this day and age of cryptocurrency exchanges struggling with their partnering banks, the number of platforms unaffected by issues are fairly limited. So far, the Poloniex exchange has successfully …
Mastercard Using Thumbprints Instead of PINs
Fingerprints have long been used in biometric national IDs and have seen wide use in police investigative work since the late 1800’s and still is today. We may now …
Bitcoin Ransomware Education – Schwerer
April 24, 2017
Education, Malware, Ransomware
It does not happen all that often security researchers come across a new type of bitcoin ransomware that can easily be decrypted. Schwerer, a recently discovered type of malware, …
What is Fedcoin?
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts were not surprised to find out various central banks and governments want to issue their own digital currency in the future. In the United States, this initiative …
AES-NI Ransomware may be Using Recently Disclosed NSA Exploits
Rumors are circulating on the internet regarding quite a recent type of ransomware making use of the Shadow Brokers’ exploits. Albeit security researchers are not entirely certain these claims …
Brickerbot Developer Claims he Bricked Over 2 Million IoT Devices so far
Not too long ago, we talked on this site about Brickerbot, a new type of malware targeting Internet of Things devices. Although it was a bit unclear at that …
IoT Malware Strains Mirai and Hajime Compete Over Resources
Internet of Things malware is nothing new under the sun these days. Most companies and consumers are well aware of the Mirai botnet, which has been terrorizing IoT devices …