Ransomware

While bitcoin itself is difficult to confiscate or censor, U.K. courts have labeled bitcoin as property which aids in recovery when scammers try to cash out.

Major U.S. oil pipeline system Colonial Pipeline paid a requested 75 bitcoin ransom to hackers who took control of its data last week.

Ransomware-as-a-service, intricate phishing scams, cryptomining and cryptojacking schemes: Ransomware attacks will continue as long as cryptocurrency remains valuable.

Bitcoin is still the preferred cryptocurrency among cybercriminals, according to this year’s Internet Organized Crime Threats Assessment from Europol.

Ryuk encrypts data on an infected device and demands hefty bitcoin ransoms, as high as 11 BTC.

PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks, claiming that attackers frequently "demand that the user pay him some amount of anonymous crypto-currency (e.g., BitCoin) in order to have the user's files decrypted so that they are accessible again."

For the first time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.

Bitcoin got caught in another media storm this week, though only in a supporting role this time around. The ongoing ransomware attack by the...

Much of the world has now heard about Bitcoin due to the global WanaCrypt0r 2.0 ransomware, which should continue spreading over the course of...

The Silk Road, the worlds largest online anonymous market famous for its wide collection of illicit drugs and its use of Tor and Bitcoin to protect...