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Syscoin Desktop Client Faced a Trojan Attack

June 21, 2018 0

Syscoin announced on their Github page that there has been a malicious trojan attack and their project’s official desktop client has been compromised. As written on their Github page, all users who downloaded the Syscoin […]

FOMO Is Back – Bithumb Hacked, $30 Million Allegedly Gone

June 20, 2018 0

Another day, another cryptocurrency exchange hack. Bithumb just notified the world that it has been hacked and over 30 million dollars worth of cryptocurrencies are allegedly stolen from their accounts. 12:49 UTC on June the […]

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20 Million Dollars Hacked From Misconfigured Ethereum Applications

June 12, 2018 0

Chinese cyber-security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab released a statement today where they claimed that a group of criminals had stolen over 20 million dollars worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency from ETH-based applications and also from mining […]

BITCOIN.COM: “ICOs Have Become a Parody”

June 11, 2018 0

Cryptovigilante doesn’t want credit for this one. Actually, we are a little bit shamed that we covered exactly 0 of these topics last week, but NEWS.BITCOIN.COM’s Kai Sedgwick made an awesome list of SEVEN DAYS […]

EOS ICO Has Been Hacked And Millions Worth Tokens Stolen

June 3, 2018 0

EOS.ICO was hacked earlier this week, when one of the startup company’s e-mail address was hacked. Done that, hackers could pose as developers and send thousands of phishing letters from legit e-mail address to unsuspecting […]

Crypto hacker sentenced to jail in London

Hacker Sentenced to 11 years in Prison – Stole $600K in Crypto

May 28, 2018 0

A British hacker was busted some time ago and now sentenced – he was guilty of selling over 60,000 stolen credit cards in the dark web. 26-year old Grant West was described by the police […]

Verge Hacked Yet Again – 35 Million XVG Vanished

May 22, 2018 0

Hackers were exploiting the same flaw as first attack in April, but this time they got away with even more Verge tokens. According to our sources there are over 35 millions XVG stolen this time […]

Alexander Vinnik is one of the criminals behind Mt. Gox hack and and BTC-e money laundering scheme with epic proportions.

Close Call for Alexander Vinnik – Someone Just Tried to Assassinate Him

May 14, 2018 0

Alexander Vinnik is one of the criminals behind Mt. Gox hack and and BTC-e money laundering scheme with epic proportions. Just few days ago Greek law enforcement discovered a plot to poison him. Instructions were […]

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Bans All Crypto – Gives Businesses 2 Months Settlement Period

May 14, 2018 0

Zimbabwe’s central bank has told its domestic institutions that it will stop supporting deposits and withdrawals between bank and cryptocurrency exchanges. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe claims it is done because of ‘safety of Zimbabwe’s financial […]

Purchases Over 10 Thousand Dollars Are Soon Illegal in Australia

May 11, 2018 0

Aussie government has been fighting this war for a long time now. Their latest idea to increase power is making cash purchases over 10 thousand dollars worth illegal. This means that people who want to […]

Dash Core Team Executives Hacked

May 10, 2018 0

Dash Core team executives were just hacked, when their social media accounts were taken over by bad guys. Luckily, there wasn’t much harm done – hackers used their minutes of fame to posting racist pictures […]

Munger gonna munger. Charlie Munger hates Bitcoin

Charlie Munger: Bitcoin Equals Harvested Baby Brains

May 7, 2018 0

Berkshire Hathaway’s boyband Buffett+Munger have been making headlines again. And although they just announced over 1B loss with their funds, these two are still talking sh1t about Bitcoin. Yes, I know, I should be writing […]

It was in January crypto investor and minor Youtube celebrity Pavel Nyashin was attacked in Leningrad Oblast.

Russian Crypto Celebrity Pavel Nyashin Found Dead in St. Petersburg

May 4, 2018 0

It was in January when crypto investor and minor Youtube celebrity Pavel Nyashin was attacked in Leningrad Oblast. Robbers took over 400 thousand dollars cash along with the safe, after Nyashin had been showing off […]

The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies

Stop the ICO Shenanigans – Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies to the Rescue

May 4, 2018 0

No more ICO shenanigans in Colorado – The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) just released a statement that two companies who were promoting Initial Coin Offerings (by the way, not legal in Colorado) are […]

MyEtherWallet’ Problems Continue – Having Enormous Amount of Phishing Attacks

May 1, 2018 0

It was only couple of days ago when we wrote about MEW’s phishing attack, where hackers got away with over 200 ETH. Popular wallet’s team gave insight on the matter on Twitter, where they emphasized […]

Roger Ver facing lawsuit because of shilling Bitcoin cash.

Roger Ver Facing a Lawsuit For Shilling Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

April 28, 2018 0

This is actually funny to me. All Bitcoin Cash fanboys simply believe that Bitcoin Cash is a continuation of the original Bitcoin project – which it isn’t. Roger Ver, one of the driving for behind […]

Cryptocurrency Traders Reported to FBI and SEC For Pump and Dumps

Crypto Douchebags Were Reported to FBI For Pump and Dumps – Might Go to Jail

April 26, 2018 0

Someone from a semi-secret Discord chat group went public with screenshots of chat histories that exposed some quite high profile cryptocurrency influencers planning a classic pump and dump scheme. Which in the world of “real […]