Online Security

On January 14, 2019, the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia was hacked. The platform's team confirmed the security breach and stated that the exchange's losses are "significant". The Cryptopia crypto exchange is currently carrying out "unscheduled system maintenance"...

Monero is the most popular coin among cryptojackers, who mine cryptocurrencies using hidden mining viruses. Scientists from the Carlos III University of Madrid and King's College London reached this conclusion after conducting a study. The next most popular cryptocurrency among cryptojackers is Bitcoin...

Fraudulent schemes in the cryptocurrency world are no news at all. But recognizing them is sometimes not at all easy. Thus, Ethereum scam forks are in fact engaged in phishing private keys from users, offering the latter to take part in a free coin giveaway....

An attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain was noticed by Coinbase staff on the evening of January 5. As a result of the investigation it was revealed that the network fell victim to a so-called 51% attack, during which 219,000 ETC was stolen - approximately $1.1 million. In response, Coinbase froze all transactions on the ETC blockchain. Should other cryptocurrencies worry about the possibility of a similar attack?

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Beam Wallet crypto wallet. This was reported by the development team of the Beam cryptocurrency. The identified vulnerability poses a risk to users of all desktop and CLI versions of the application...