Monero

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest of the crypto market have been on quite the tear of the past week, with BTC rallying from $6,800 to $8,450 in a matter of a few days. But over the past 48 hours, the crypto market has stalled, with nearly all digital assets posting …

Last night, news broke that the United States military completed an overnight drone-based airstrike at the Baghdad airport that killed one of Iran’s top officials, and shortly after Bitcoin spiked by 5%. Fears that retaliation for the assassination could fuel a war between Iran and the US, have caused the …

The past year has been an extension of last year’s bear market for most altcoins. All bar a few are set to end the year lower than they began it and there have been very few survivors from 2019. 2019: An Altcoin Nightmare While total crypto currency market capitalization is …

Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that's fit to print and that we haven't covered yet. T-Mobile US says hackers broke into customer info T-Mobile US prepaid account holders got unwelcome news this week when their wireless carrier admitted on Friday it was compromised by miscreants who would have been able…

On 18 November, somebody swapped out the legitimate command line wallet binaries for the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency and replaced them with software that stole users’ funds. The malicious versions of the Linux and Windows binaries were first spotted by a user on Monday who noticed that the software failed an integrity check. Like a lot…

The official website of the Monero Project has been compromised to deliver a coin stealer. The official website of the Monero Project has been compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency stealer on November 18. The hack was discovered after a user downloaded a Linux 64-bit command line (CLI) Monero binary that was containing a coin stealer.…

Nov 26, 2019 at 12:20 UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2019 at 01:32 UTCAnother Crypto Exchange Is Dropping Privacy Coin Monero Over Compliance RiskA Northern European digital assets exchange is to delist the privacy-focused monero cryptocurrency to align with international anti-money-laundering standards.Estonia-based BitBay announced Monday that monero (XML) will no longer be tradeable from Feb. 19, 2020.…

The digital currency that the People’s Bank of China says it is close to issuing will give the government unprecedented visibility into how its citizens spend money. But authorities seem especially eager to assure the public that the new system will preserve the anonymity of physical cash—as long as they don’t commit any crimes. It’s not…

The Stantinko botnet, which is thought to have infected at least 500,000 devices worldwide, has now added cryptomining to its toolset — and it’s been using YouTube to evade detection. According to researchers at cybersecurity solutions provider ESET, the botnet’s operators are now distributing a module which mines privacy-focused coin Monero. The botnet, which is…

A hacking group is reportedly performing a mass-scan of the internet in search of vulnerable ports on systems using enterprise sandbox software Docker to mine cryptocurrency. According to security researchers at Bad Packets, the scans, which began over the weekend, identify vulnerabilities that allow bad actors to inject malicious code that deploys a cryptocurrency miner…