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Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet

22

May

2013

Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in a paper. Recently Bitcoin has gotten lots of attention. In early 2013, the prices reached a high of US$265 per Bitcoin. The following chart shows the currency’s historical price:Because Bitcoin is a virtual currency and […]

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Bank Account Logins for Sale, Courtesy of Citadel Botnet

17

May

2013

Financial theft is one of the most lucrative forms of cybercrime. Malware authors continue to deliver sophisticated tools and techniques to unlock online bank accounts. Attackers design and develop botnets to perform financial fraud, targeting banks and other institutions for profit. These botnets traditionally have monitored victims’ Internet activities and intercepted banking transactions to extract […]

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OpUSA Begins Today, Is Your Organization Ready?

07

May

2013

Following on from recent concerted campaigns by Anonymous against Israel on April 7 and Facebook on April 5, the latest target for the online hacktivist collective is the USA and American online interests. Today, hackers and script kiddies of various affiliations are expected to begin a campaign of hack attacks and general online disruption against […]

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