IBM: Hackers prefer cryptodoging to extortion.

IBM specialists have conducted research and recently released their results. Experts from X-Force claim that in 2018 there was a sharp increase in cryptocurrency attacks. And they note that less and less criminals are engaged in extortion, demanding payment in digital currency. Most often, they began to focus on cryptojacking, which is hidden.

Bitcoin News - Bitcoin and Dash become pioneers in an anarchist paradise with drugs, weapons and turtles.

Crypto has become an integral part of Acapulco, the formed center of trousers, which has become the anarchist capital of the world.

Fraudsters tried to take advantage of the success of Square.

This week, fraudsters launched a new scheme in which they covered themselves with the well-known digital payment processing company Square.

It became known as a hacker stole 2 million EOS.

2 million EOS were stolen due to the fact that games.eos did not update the black list of hacked accounts. EOS Blockchain is designed in such a way that all 21 block creators must confirm the list of hacked accounts to add them to the special blacklist. This time, the hacker’s account was in the unconfirmed list and managed to steal 2 million tokens.

Indian police exposed and stopped a cryptocurrency scam inspired by the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"

Indian police and the local Hindu edition report that a resident of Mumbai Pritam Patil (Pritam Patil) was charged with fraud by 12 people for misappropriating about $ 250,000 in a cryptocurrency scam. Patil and his accomplice for several months molested a local businessman and his partners to invest in the KBC Coin cryptocurrency. According to Hard Fork, the KBC coin is named after "Kaun Banega Crorepati", the Indian version of the intellectual TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire"

The scammer stole 2.9 million EOS and tried to get them through Huobi.

The manufacturer of EOS42 units reported that as a result of the failure, an unknown person managed to withdraw 2.9 million EOS for a total of $ 7.7 million from the hacked account. The offender sent the money to the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi. Employees of the trading platform instantly froze the account. About this representatives of cryptobirgy tweeted.

White day robbery: Dutch traders attacked by criminals.

A bitcoin trader from the Netherlands was tortured in front of a four-year-old daughter.

A group of robbers who were disguised as police officers entered the house of the trader. About the attack said the local news agency.