Data Breach Today

AUGUST 30, 2021

Security Experts Praise Desire to Regulate Market, Cite Complexity Sen. Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.

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JULY 21, 2022

The Series A Proceeds Will Help Halborn Expand Its Audit and Pen Testing Services Halborn raised $90 million to expand its audit and penetration testing services and more effectively safeguard the crypto industry.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Distributed Ledgers For Identity and Access Management Have Great Promise Blockchain technology already underpins the boom in cryptocurrencies, but is also being rigorously tested and developed for other applications, including identity and access management.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze : Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security. Finally, we suggest questions for critically assessing security risks of new voting system proposals.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Why It Doesn't Fix Long-Running Access Management Problems Technologists are wrangling with an identity puzzle: Is it possible to create a single digital identity that can be seamlessly and securely used at a bank, a hospital or consumer websites? But experts say blockchain is likely not the answer right now.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Indiana University Health is evaluating the use of blockchain in two areas to improve healthcare information security, Mitch Parker, CISO, says in an interview at the HIMSS19 conference. He sizes up the potential risks and benefits.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Attorney John Salmon Assesses Cybersecurity Applications for Blockchain As organizations investigate public and private blockchains to secure transactions and facilitate peer-to-peer transactions, they must ensure they know who's responsible, what the system is doing, what the cybersecurity and legal risks are and who's managing it, says attorney John (..)

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2022

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.”

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 1, 2021

Akamai Describes How This Approach Works A cryptomining botnet campaign is using bitcoin blockchain transactions to hide command-and-control server addresses and stay under the radar, defeating takedown attempts, according to security firm Akamai.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. Every blockchain uses a consensus protocol which allows all nodes on the network to agree on the current state of the blockchain.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain. Image: Guard.io.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This service is dedicated to individuals that have the need to possess complete privacy on the blockchain, offering a perspective from the opponent’s point of view in order for the user to comprehend the possibility of his/her funds getting flagged down under autocratic illegal charges.”

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Molly White—of “ Web3 is Going Just Great ” fame— reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own : In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using new KandyKorn macOS Malware in attacks against blockchain engineers. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware in attacks against blockchain engineers, reported Elastic Security Labs. ” reads the report. ” concludes the report.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

million of the $190 million worth of cryptocurrency drained from cross-chain bridge Nomad on Wednesday, blockchain security firm PeckShield tells ISMG. 3 Crypto Wallets Hold $95M of Stolen Funds; $6M Laundered on Tornado Cash Multiple individuals returned a total of $11.4

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Popular Game Axie Infinity's Blockchain Security Breached Via Hacked Private Keys Ronin Network, which powers the popular NFT game Axie Infinity, announced it was the victim of a security breach that amounted to around $615 million in stolen funds.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Facebook's Cryptocurrency Folly, Scaling Security and Why Doomsday Is Temporary From blockchains and surveillance to backdoors and GDPR, a group of leading cryptographers rounded up the top cybersecurity and privacy matters of the day at the cryptographers' panel held at the recent RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Bad Guys Haul 450 'Bad Guys' NFTs; Rug Pull Finder Buys Back Most Assets Two individuals exploited a flaw in an unaudited smart contract deployed by Rug Pull Finder, a web3 security company that offers smart contract audits to blockchain companies.

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JULY 25, 2022

Protocol's Governance Contract, Vulnerable for 2 Years, Exploited in Attack A music streaming blockchain service patched a bug on a smart contract that went undetected since 2020. The vulnerability wasn't detected by multiple smart contracts security audits.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The Ethereum-based protocol did not specify what those assets included, but blockchain security firm PeckShield says the total losses are likely $182 million.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2024

Dubai, UAE, June 20, 2024, CyberNewsWire — 1inch , a leading DeFi aggregator that provides advanced security solutions to users across the entire space, has announced today the launch of the 1inch Shield. The provider with a better data can produce a better product, allowing multiple layers of security for users.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The Australian Startup Uses Blockchain To Stop Data Tampering, Document Alteration OneSpan plans to purchase an Australian startup founded by a longtime Quest Software executive to securely store and vault documents based on blockchain technology.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Seventh Sense , a pioneer in advanced cybersecurity solutions, announces the launch of SenseCrypt , a revolutionary new platform that sets a new standard in secure, privacy-preserving identity verification. Singapore, Sept.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report describes vulnerabilities found in popular password generator apps. Plus, the evolution of blockchain as a utility and a new decryptor for GandCrab ransomware.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

Security Experts Point Out Vulnerability in Smart Contract System The hacker behind the $612 million breach of the blockchain-based Poly Network system has reportedly returned all stolen assets. Security experts have highlighted a critical vulnerability and a need for further DeFi security regulations.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Agency Contracts With Blockchain Firm AnChain.AI; Experts Weigh In The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will monitor decentralized finance transactions, after contracting with the blockchain cybersecurity firm AnChain.AI.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Also: New EU Report on Spyware; UK Cybersecurity Technical Director Bids Farewell In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss implications of the seizure of $3.36 billion in stolen bitcoin, whether the EU is complicit in the spread of advanced spyware, and the departure of the U.K.'s

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Orbit Chain has suffered a security breach that has resulted in the theft of more than $81 million worth of cryptocurrency. Orbit Chain is a multi-asset blockchain platform that connects various blockchains through Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). It also hired the blockchain security company ChainLight.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2022

“This service is dedicated to individuals that have the need to possess complete privacy on the blockchain, offering a perspective from the opponent’s point of view in order for the user to comprehend the possibility of his/her funds getting flagged down under autocratic illegal charges.” ”

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Data Breach Today

JULY 20, 2021

Security Firm Elliptic Illustrates How Group Was Willing to Reduce Its Demands The blockchain analysis firm Elliptic offers a step-by-step case study, based on its research, of how one victim of the REvil ransomware gang negotiated a lower ransom payment.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For example, investigators alleged Potekhin and Karasavidi used compromised Poloniex accounts to place orders to purchase large volumes of “ GAS ,” the digital currency token used to pay the cost of executing transactions on the NEO blockchain — China’s first open source blockchain platform.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These relationships are implemented via protocols like SAML (security assertion markup language) and OIDC. But that will change thanks to modern technologies based on blockchains. . The only way of sharing secrets at large scale is via decentralized technologies like blockchain.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 20, 2023

On January 20, 2023, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth published “Digital Assets and Privacy,” a discussion paper compiling insights from workshops with CIPL member companies that explored the intersection of privacy and digital assets, with a particular focus on blockchain technology.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults. “They truly all are reasonably secure. But on Nov.

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