Days after European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a warning against virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Norway has said that Bitcoin isn’t real money and they will treat savings in Bitcoins as assets, which…
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European Banking Authority issues warning on Bitcoin
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a warning on the risks involved with virtual currencies like Bitcoin stating that consumers are not protected through any regulation and they may be at…
138 Cryptolocker C&C domains identified, taken down
Cryptolocker has been menacing gullible users, encrypting their files and demanding ransom in lieu of a private decryption key. Users and even law enforcement agencies have been succumbing to the demands and…
Bitcoin crashing? Sheep Marketplace heist may lead to decline in pricing
Having reached trading peaks of over $1,230 at Mt.Gox, Bitcoin prices have started to correct once again and have hit the low of $863 in early hours of trading today indicating that…
Silk Road-like Sheep Marketplace scams users; over 39k Bitcoins worth $40 million stolen
Bitcoin doesn’t fail to make it to the headlines every single day – either because of the exchange rate or some kind of hack – and today it is because of a…
Bitcoin miners bundled with PUPs in legitimate applications backed by EULA
Bitcoin miners are being allegedly bundled with third party potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that come bundled with legitimate applications, a new report indicates. According to a report by security company Malwarebytes third…
Cryptolocker ransomware scammers offering discounts as Bitcoin prices soar
Cryptolocker has been making the headlines lately after National Cyber Crime Unit of UK warned of a large spam attack involving the ransomware and more recently because Swansea Massachusetts police department in…
Coinbase Bitcoin wallet app delisted from Apple App Store
Apple has removed Coinbase’s iOS app from its App Store without any clarification less than a month after it first appeared. First reported by Bitcoin Blogger, the Coinbase app delisting was confirmed…
Bitcash.cz hacked; Bitcoin wallets of 4000 users emptied
What seems to be a trend now, another online repository and Bitcoin exchange, Bitcash.cz, based out of Czech Republic has been hacked and wallets of as many as 4000 users have been…
Bitcoin trading platform GBL shuts down; $5 million in Bitcoin disappears
Global Bond Limited (GBL), a self-proclaimed government registered Bitcoin trading platform, has shut down unexpectedly on October 26 leading to speculations that the trading platform was a scam and scammers have vanished…
Secure Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io hacked; unable to pay all user balances
Update November 7 @ 08:40 We have heard back from Inputs.io. According to a reply we received on our email, the service was hacked on October 24 and the wallet claims that…
Feds seize 144,336 bitcoins valued at $28 million from Silk Road founder
US authorities have claimed to have seized 144,336 bitcoins valued at $28 million from a computer hardware belonging to Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht aka “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Feds seized Silk…
Bitcointalk.org hacked, site currently down
Update 1 Theymos has posted on a Reddit thread that he is willing to give 50 BTC as reward to anyone who finds out how Bitcointalk was hacked. Theymos notes that chances…
Bitcoin value slides following Silk Road shut down
Value of bitcoin took a beating after FBI seized the Silk Road domain and arrested its founder Ross William Ulbricht. According to data available through Mt.Gox the virtual currency fell to as…
Bitcoin-Central exchange reopens after 6 months hiatus
Bitcoin-Central, a Bitcoin currency exchange based out of France and operated by Paymium, has reopened again after six months of suspension. Bitcoin-Central suspended its operations in late April this year following a…