The Bitcoin service Bitalo found itself the victim of a DDoS attack and put a 100 BTC bounty on the hacker’s head.
South Korea accuses its northern neighbor of having hacked its crypto exchanges, which resulted in billions of won stolen.
Bitfinex announced that all trading, deposits, and withdrawals will be temporarily disabled.
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had to pay bitcoin ransom equivalent to $17,000.
The new study, published by the Cyber Threat Alliance, states that the creators of CryptoWall 3.0 malicious program generated more than $325 million in ransom payments.
A new digital currency has been created by Interpol to fight online-committed crimes.
In this 2-part series written by Kolin Evans, a cryptocurrency expert who made Quark an international sensation following bitcoin’s euphoric rise in 2013, consumers are alerted to the types of digital currency fraud – and shown how to prevent them.
Email and forum accounts used by Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto have apparently been taken over by hacker, according to a series of odd posts made from accounts confirmed to belong to Nakamoto himself.
Mt. Gox lost millions of bitcoins in February, but hackers claim it still has some customer resources.