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UN: North Korea Funds Weapons Program Through Crypto Hacks

A confidential briefing from the UN indicates that North Korea has accrued at least $2 billion from cryptocurrency exchange and mining hacks.

Op Ed: Anatomy of the Tether Attack: Are Stablecoins Vulnerable?

Last month's attack on Tether contains a cautionary tale: Only those coins that can survive such attacks have the slightest chance of becoming the “holy grail" of stablecoins.

Popular Ether Wallet MEW Is Hijacked in DNS Attack

MyEtherWallet, a popular web-based wallet for storing and transmitting the cryptocurrency ether (ETH), suffered a DNS attack that rerouted users to a Russian scam site.

Researchers Explore Eclipse Attacks on the Ethereum Blockchain

An eclipse attack is a network-level attack on a blockchain, where an attacker essentially takes control of the peer-to-peer network, obscuring a node’s view...

Bitcoin Exchanges Are Favorite Targets of Global DDoS Attacks: Report

Imperva Incapsula, a cloud-based service provider, has released a comprehensive report titled “Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape.” The report shows that cryptocurrency operators...

The Curious Case of Bitcoin’s “Moby Dick” Spam and the Miners That Confirmed It

“Six or seven [mining] pools have played a major role in stuffing blocks with spam transactions,” analytics developer LaurentMT said.

Bitcoin Magazine’s Top 6 Tech Stories of 2016

Of course, Bitcoin Magazine kept up with all of it. Looking back on 2016, we compiled three top 6 lists, with our best-read topics in technology, business and news. These were 2016’s six top stories in technology, by popularity.

Insufficient Backups, Not Bitcoin, at Fault as Hollywood Hospital’s Data Held Ransom by Hackers

This is a guest post by Addison James.In a February 17 letter, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center President & CEO Allen Stefanek said, “…the amount...

Bitcoin Developer Eric Lombrozo on Five Benefits of Segregated Witness

Segregated Witness has become the most talked-about breakthrough in Bitcoin development since the concept was presented in early December to the Scaling Bitcoin Workshop...

The RAND Corporation Report: National Security Implications of Virtual Currency

The RAND Corporation, an influential global policy think tank with strong defense and homeland security ties, has released a report titled “National Security Implications...
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