September 09, 2019

US city balks at paying $5.3 million ransomware demand

The attack quickly encrypted 158 workstations - and would have been worse had it struck later in the working day.

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August 09, 2019

Blackmailed for Bitcoin – exchange rebuffs $3.5m ransom demand

Here's a story of super-sized digital blackmail aimed at one of the biggest cryptocoin exchanges out there.

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July 16, 2019

Ransomware attackers demand $1.8m from US college

The school, located in the Bronx and serving around 8,000 students, has declined to say whether it will pay up.

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July 05, 2019

Bitcoin eats as much energy as Switzerland

That's around seven gigawatts, equal to 0.21% of the world's supply: as much power as generated by seven Dungeness nuclear power plants.

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June 21, 2019

Florida city will pay over $600,000 to ransomware attackers

Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay attackers over $600,000 three weeks after its systems were crippled by ransomware.

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June 11, 2019

It’s a SCAM: Send Bitcoin or your company’s reputation is TOAST!

"I will insult people. And everyone will not care that it's not you." But it's social-disaster baloney!

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May 01, 2019

Crooks using hacked Microsoft email accounts to steal cryptocurrency

Hacked Microsoft email accounts are being used by criminals to compromise victims' cryptocurrency exchange accounts and empty their funds.

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April 29, 2019

Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations

The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.

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March 06, 2019

Ep. 022 – Plaintext passwords, cryptocoin criminality and the Momo monstrosity [PODCAST]

Here's the latest episode of the Naked Security podcast - listen now!

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