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Cyber Attacks Pose Increasing Threat to Financial Sector

  • Financial malware attacks have increased by 16 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to new data.
Friday, 12/08/2016 | 15:12 GMT by Finance Magnates Staff
Exchanges

Bitfinex Offers 5% Bounty for Information on $70m Bitcoin Hack

  • Do you know who stole over 100,000 Bitcoins from Bitfinex? You could earn $3.5 million for turning him in.
Thursday, 11/08/2016 | 06:50 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Education Center

Apple Plays Whack-a-Mole with Scam Bitcoin Wallets on its App Store

  • Apple responds to community criticism by removing dangerous clone Bitcoin wallet apps, but more are added all the time.
Wednesday, 10/08/2016 | 11:35 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

Bitfinex Might Compensate Clients With Shares for Stolen Bitcoin

  • Bitfinex exchange decided to give all clients a 36% haircut across the board to cover for the affected bitcoin wallets.
Sunday, 07/08/2016 | 06:12 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Innovation

Elliptic and LexisNexis to Bring Bank-Grade AML and KYC to Bitcoin Firms

  • Elliptic revealed that the largest dark web marketplaces now facilitate more than $250 million in annual sales via Bitcoin.
Wednesday, 03/08/2016 | 06:59 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

Bitcoin Price Drops Over $100 After $65m Stolen from Bitfinex

  • The Hong Kong based cryptocurrencies exchange revealed that it suffered a data breach in its bitcoin wallets.
Wednesday, 03/08/2016 | 05:14 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Analysis

Robots, Cyber Motives and a Trader's Addiction

  • A selection of our editors’ favourite stories and reading recommendations of the week.
Friday, 29/07/2016 | 11:21 GMT by Finance Magnates Staff
News

German Media Links Bitcoin to Weapon Used in Terror Attack

  • Reports out of Germany claim that the gun used in the Munich shooting was bought with Bitcoin on the Darknet.
Monday, 25/07/2016 | 08:57 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Trading

Steemit Starts Post-Hack Account Recovery as Steem Market Cap Tops $380m

  • The value of the Steem cryptocurrency has increased by over 40% in the last week.
Wednesday, 20/07/2016 | 09:53 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
News

Steemit Suffered Minor Cyber Attack, Bittrex Suspended Steem Transactions

  • Hacking attacks on cryptocurrency related ventures don't seem to ever slow down.
Friday, 15/07/2016 | 11:55 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

Gatecoin Raised $500,000 to Recover from Ethereum Cyber Hack

  • Hong Kong regulated Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange, Gatecoin, is expected to re-launch in early August.
Wednesday, 06/07/2016 | 11:11 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
News

John McAfee to Launch Giant Bitcoin Mining Operation in the U.S

  • The cyber security pioneer tries to shake the dominance of the Chinese miners on the blockchain.
Sunday, 03/07/2016 | 10:36 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Regulation

BIS Releases Report on Cyber Guidance Amid Global Security Risks in Finance

  • Published by IOSCO and CPMI, the guidance supplements prior standards on cyber risks.
Wednesday, 29/06/2016 | 16:39 GMT by Steven Hatzakis
News

An "Anonymous Collective" Complains to the SEC Over DAO Hack

  • Could the Ethereum Foundation, Slock.it or others be held liable for the losses of the DAO?
Wednesday, 22/06/2016 | 14:27 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Bloggers

DAO You See It, DAO You Don’t: the Aftermath of the DAO Hack

  • Looking critically at the next steps following the great DAO heist of 2016.
Tuesday, 21/06/2016 | 07:26 GMT by Guest Contributors
News

Bank of England Gets into Fintech Space with ‎Accelerator for Innovations

  • The Old Lady is aiming to keep pace with challenges by inviting fintech firms to participate in its new initiative
Monday, 20/06/2016 | 17:01 GMT by Aziz Abdel-Qader
Trading

The DAO Falls Victim to Cyber Attack Leading Ethereum to Crash Over 20%

  • The event is still ongoing as hackers have already stolen over 3.5 million ETH from the DAO's coffers.
Friday, 17/06/2016 | 10:45 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Payments

Financial Services Industry at Cybersecurity Precipice? – SWIFT’s Perez-Tasso

  • Given the recent publicity of cyberattacks, many industry experts see a need to fortify security for venues and banks.
Thursday, 16/06/2016 | 16:37 GMT by Jeff Patterson
News

33% of UK Firms are Buying Bitcoin in Anticipation of Cyber Attacks

  • Large firms in the UK say they are willing to pay £50,000 in Bitcoin to hackers in order to unlock their files.
Wednesday, 08/06/2016 | 14:08 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

Gatecoin Lost $2m Worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum In Hot Wallet Cyber Hack

  • The Gatecoin exchange is offline following a hot wallet breach that saw hackers running off with 15% of its cryptocurrencies.
Sunday, 15/05/2016 | 10:17 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Executive Moves

Standard Chartered Taps Cheri McGuire as its Chief Information Security Officer

  • Ms McGuire joins the lender in a new London-based security role, helping steer the group's security protocols.
Wednesday, 11/05/2016 | 09:11 GMT by Jeff Patterson
News

ShapeShift Clients Targeted by a Clone Scam Website

  • The clone looks identical to ShapeShift’s legacy design and is just one letter away from its exact address.
Wednesday, 27/04/2016 | 07:04 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

ShapeShift Lost About $230k to Three Hacks Within One Month

  • ShapeShift had three hot wallets hacked: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
Tuesday, 19/04/2016 | 06:36 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

CoinWallet.co Throws in the Towel after Suffering a Data Breach

  • Hackers continue to disrupt the normal operations of cryptocurrencies businesses with cyber attacks.
Thursday, 14/04/2016 | 12:53 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Exchanges

On its First Day Trading Ethereum Bitfinex Controlled 25% of ETH/USD Volume

  • What might have helped Bitfinex is that Poloniex, the number one exchange by ETH/BTC volume, was hit with massive DDoS attacks.
Tuesday, 15/03/2016 | 13:21 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
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