Vertcoin Suffers its Second 51% Attack in 12 Months
Vertcoin recently suffered its second 51% attack in 12 months, with the newest attack occurring almost exactly 1 year since ...
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Sweden Changed Its Official Currency To Bitcoin (For 30 Minutes)
Hackers convinced Twitter to give them control of the account for Sweden’s ruling political party - then used it to ...
Kraken CEO Warns: Don’t Keep More Coins Than Needed on Exchanges
Binance and Kraken CEOs weighed in on industry best practices for storing cryptocurrency in the wake of Cryptopia getting hacked. ...
Ethereum Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Attackers to Drain Hot Wallets
A recent vulnerability in the Ethereum network could have reportedly allowed hackers to gain massive profits from cryptocurrency exchanges which ...
Three Chinese Men In Custody Over $87M Cryptocurrency Theft
Police in China has detained three men suspected of pulling the country’s biggest ever cryptocurrency heist — worth 600 million ...
‘I’m Not That Sloppy’: 15-Year Old Ridicules Bitfi After Hacking ‘Unhackable’ Wallet
A fifteen-year-old has claimed to have successfully compromised the “unhackable” Bitfi hardware wallet endorsed by John McAfee. 'Bullshit Walks'? In ...
Bitfinex Survives DDoS Attack Hours After ‘Infrastructure’ Outage
US cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has recovered after a two-phase outage saw hackers launch a DDoS attack on its website. 'Back ...
Hack Bytecoin for $557: New Findings Reveal Cost Of 51% Attacks
A new resource claims to have calculated “accurate” costs for launching a 51% attack against some of the largest cryptocurrencies. ...
