Media Prima Berhad, Malaysia’s leading media company, has been hit with a ransomware attack followed by a whopping $6.45 million demand for the decryption keys...
Tag - Bitcoin
2017 saw many risk-takers rack up small fortunes by riding the Bitcoin wave, but some ended up in tears — their accounts hacked and their crypto-wallets...
CoinRail, a small cryptocurrency exchange service based in South Korea, reported on Sunday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and publicly confirmed it on...
A misconfigured MongoDB database has led to the leak of names, email and physical addresses, wallet information, encrypted passwords, and driver’s license and...
Cryptocurrency miners have become such a problem that Google is taking a radical measure to protect customers from stealthy miners disguised as legitimate...
“Monetize your business with your users’ CPU power.” That’s the alluring promise to make a fortune overnight through crypto-mining, the practice of using...
Calendar apps aren’t exactly the rage, but one developer has managed to squeeze in just enough functionality to get people to pay for it, and even to mine...
Authorities in Iceland have detained 11 people in what local media call the “Big Bitcoin Heist.” Thieves reportedly made off with $2 million worth of Bitcoin...
SamSam ransomware is back and the Colorado Department of Transportation is its most recent victim. More than 2,000 agency computers had to be shut down on Feb...
Hackers are increasingly setting their sights on electronic medical records (EMR) to extort money from hospitals and their affiliated system vendors. Most...