UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffers another DDoS attack

EXMO suffered its second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in two months and says it… The post UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffers another DDoS attack appeared first on Coin Journal.

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UK-based Exmo exchange is down due to DDoS attack

UK-based crypto exchange Exmo suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Exmo team said on Twitter that the exchange’s servers were temporarily unavailable and that the team was trying The post UK-based Exmo exchange is down due to DDoS attack appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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UK Crypto Exchange EXMO Offline Amid DDoS Attack

The exchange said it's working to bring services back online following the attack.

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Биржа Exmo подверглась DDoS-атаке

15 февраля сайт криптовалютной биржи Exmo подвергся DDoS-атаке. Important: DDoS attack on EXMO 📢❗️ Please note the EXMO exchange website is now under the DDoS attack.

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Gab Promotes Bitcoin as the Platform is Swamped After Trump Ban

Gab is experiencing a natural DDoS attack amid an exodus with the platform stating some 500,000 users had joined in a day as the site sees 18 million visits. “The...

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Ongoing DDoS attack on Trezor Shop

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Crypto exchange Poloniex faces outage due to DDoS attack

Global crypto exchange Poloniex experienced an outage earlier today, and the exchange noted that their services were unavailable due to an ‘unexpected issue’. [embed]https://twitter.com/PoloSupThe post Crypto exchange Poloniex faces outage due to DDoS attack appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Why we can't rule out Bitmex from the Bitcoin game just yet

For BitMEX, it hasn't been the best of years from a popularity perspective. First, it faced massive criticism during the March 13th crash, when traders lost money due to an alleged DDOS attack, andThe post Why we can't rule out Bitmex from the Bitcoin game just yet appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Web3 Foundation Awards Grant to Swisscom Blockchain to Secure the Polkadot Network

Swiss Blockchain has been awarded a grant by decentralized internet supporter Web3 Foundation to develop validators for Polkadot. This is in a bid to improve the security of Polkadot’s network by ensuring the availability of full nodes to prevent the possibility of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which is common with Proof-of-Stake on […]

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Darknet Giant Empire Market Offline for 36 Hours, Blame Cast at Massive DDoS Attack

According to a number of sources, one of the largest darknet markets in the world, Empire Market has been offline for well over 36 hours. The researcher and analyst Dark. fail has been tweeting about the subject, as the market hasn’t been down for this long since 2019.

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Avalanche Launch Fumbles: ‘A Highly-Sophisticated DDoS Attack Derailed Token Sale’

On July 8, 2020, some members of the cryptocurrency community were prepared to leverage the AVA Labs Avalanche (AVAX) token sale, in order to acquire some of the highly anticipated coin on Wednesday.

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Binance Under Attack, Chinese Domains Suffered DDoS Attacks But CZ Says Funds are SAFU

Binance founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao confirmed via Twitter that the Chinese domains of the leading cryptocurrency exchange suffered “targeted DDoS attacks. ” As such users experienced some lag and interruption of network access.

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Binance's DDoS attack troubles highlight possible pattern behind exchange-targeting

Binance has been the target of a DDoS attack on its Chinese domains. The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of Binance, Changpeng Zhao [CZ] confirmed the news on 29 April after rumors of the attack began dThe post Binance's DDoS attack troubles highlight possible pattern behind exchange-targeting appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Liquidity Crisis Continues: BitMEX Wick Reaches $8,700 on Bitcoin Futures

Last week, Bitcoin plummeted from $7,500 to $3,800 at the extreme point of the low, as a result of a coronavirus panic-induced selloff combined with a liquidity crisis and potential DDoS attack on BitMEX that created a cascade of liquidations driving the price of Bitcoin down at a rapid rate. But rather than clean up...

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BitMEX's downtime on 13 March prompted by DDoS attack, not 'hardware issues'

BitMEX's Chief Technology Officer [CTO], Samuel Reed, had provided a gist of the attack that hit the exchange platform on 13 March. Now, BitMEX's Chief Executive Officer [CEO], Arthur Hayes, has come The post BitMEX's downtime on 13 March prompted by DDoS attack, not 'hardware issues' appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Organized? Crypto Exchanges Bitfinex And OKEx Hit By Sophisticated DDoS Cyberattacks At Almost The Same Time

Two popular crypto exchanges, Bitfinex and OKEx, have recently suffered DDoS attacks. These attacks led to both exchanges going offline for a while before resuming operations. The first attack was reported on OKEx yesterday but was later resolved.

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Bitfinex Completes Another $100M Loan Facility Repayment to Tether

Hours after experiencing a major DDoS attack, Bitfinex announces repayment of another $100 million of the loan facility to Tether

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Bitfinex targeted by DDoS attack, hours after OKEx

Bitfinex has just announced that it is investigating what seems to be a DDoS attack. The apparent DDoS [Distributed Denial of Service] attack on Bitfinex comes 24 hours after OKEx faced the same kind The post Bitfinex targeted by DDoS attack, hours after OKEx appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Биткоин-биржа Bitfinex заявила о DDoS-атаке

Криптовалютная биржа Bitfinex приостановила работу и сообщила о распределенной сетевой атаке типа «отказ в обслуживании» (DDoS). Приблизительно через 50 минут площадка вернулась в онлайн.

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Биткоин-биржа Bitfinex заявила о DDoS-атаке (обновлено)

Криптовалютная биржа Bitfinex приостановила работу и сообщила о распределенной сетевой атаке типа «отказ в обслуживании» (DDoS). Приблизительно через 50 минут площадка вернулась в онлайн.

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Lightning Network Vulnerable to Slowing, Freezing DDOS Attack

The Lightning network is becoming more appealing to startups, though it is still in experimental mode and may face glitches.

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McAfeeDEX hit by DDoS attack, days after beta launch

After a short hiatus, John McAfee reappeared on the scene a few days ago, announcing the beta launch of a decentralized exchange (DEX), following the launch of the McAfee Magic trading platform back in July.

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McAfee DEX Is Live and Already Surviving Its First DDoS Attack

McAfee did it again. After a short season off the radar, the well-known crypto influencer resurfaced with recharged batteries and announced the launch of a decentralized exchange following the creation of a trading platform named McAfee Magic.

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BTI Website Suffers Mysterious DDoS Attack After Ousting OKEx

Widely considered to be a rare force for good within the cryptocurrency space, the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) publishes regular investigative reports that consistently shine a light on the out of control wash trading problem within the industry.

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Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) Accuses OKEx of Orchestrating DDoS Attack Due to Report

The Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) has published a new report that showed which major exchanges were engaged in wash trading. OKEx, which was one of these companies, and is also being accused of orchestrating a DDoS attack on the site of the BTI.

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Wikipedia Temporarily Taken Down by DDoS Cyberattack

Wikipedia had fallen victim to a cyberattack today, with the foundation behind the free online encyclopedia calling it a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The volunteer-run website was unavailable in multiple countries.

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Cloudflare’s Magic Transit lets you push your entire IP traffic through its servers

Cloudflare today announced the launch of its latest network security product, called Magic Transit. This service allows organizations to send their entire network traffic through Cloudflare’s secure and performance-optimized network, offering protections against DDoS attacks, while simultaneously boosting speeds.

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8chan booted out by Cloudflare after El Paso shooting

Popular website infrastructure and security services provider Cloudflare announced it’s terminating service for 8chan in the wake of deadly terrorist attack in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. The 21-year-old suspect in the Walmart mass shooting, which resulted in the deaths of 20 people, is said to have posted a white nationalist rant on the message board favored by many on the far-right before the attack.

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Telegram founder claims China hacked the app to disrupt Hong Kong protesters

As Hong Kong battles against the proposed extradition bill that would China more power over the autonomous territory, protesters in the city are said to have experienced an outage of Telegram‘s encrypted messaging service yesterday – and Beijing may have had something to do with it.

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Telegram founder claims China disrupted the app to sabotage Hong Kong protesters

As Hong Kong battles against the proposed extradition bill that would China more power over the autonomous territory, protesters in the city are said to have experienced an outage of Telegram‘s encrypted messaging service yesterday – and Beijing may have had something to do with it.

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TRON suffered from a critical bug that could’ve crashed its entire blockchain

Just one computer could have brought TRON’s entire blockchain to a screeching halt, a new HackerOne disclosure has revealed. Until quite recently, bad actors were reportedly able to maliciously consume the CPU power of the network with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.

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Europol Claims New Scalps – Chaos as Darknet Markets are Downed

In the last 72 hours, numerous darknet markets (DNMs) have been downed in a concerted DDoS attack. Meanwhile, Europol has been crowing over its success in toppling two markets that were already known to be stricken, Wall Street and Valhalla.

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Chaos Reigns as Darknet Markets are Downed

In the last 72 hours, numerous darknet markets (DNMs) have been downed in a concerted DDoS attack. Meanwhile, Europol has been crowing over its success in toppling two markets that were already known to be stricken, Wall Street and Valhalla.

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This New Bitcoin Trojan Already Infected 150K Wallets

Electrum, one of the most popular Bitcoin (BTC) wallets, has been suffering from a massive Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack… The post This New Bitcoin Trojan Already Infected 150K Wallets appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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It Looks as if Another Darknet Market Era Is Coming to an End

Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.

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Lazarus Hacker Group Continues to Target Crypto Using Faked Trading Software

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.

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CoinsClone: Legit Bitcoin Exchange And Crypto Trading Platform Script?

What Is CoinsClone? Coinsclone is a trusted development partner when it comes to quality and trusted crypto exchange development. The platform offers peer exchange software that delivers ultimate security against DDOS attack, Cross Scripting attack, and SQL Injection among others.

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Anonymous hacked 70 Gabon government websites to protest dictatorship

Anonymous, a collective of hacktivists, has claimed responsibility for a widespread DDoS attack and defacement of Gabon’s government websites. The collective have said they did this in protest against Gabon’s government and specifically against the dictatorship of President Ali Bongo.

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Massive Bitcoin Vulnerability Discovered That Could Have Seen The End Of BTC

Developers from the Bitcoin Core project seem to have discovered a vulnerability that could have seen the end of Bitcoin. To put a long story short, the entire Bitcoin blockchain was at risk of being pulled down by one single DDos attack.

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Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk

The entire Bitcoin infrastructure has been issued with a stern warning: update Bitcoin Core software or risk having the whole thing collapse. Until now, Bitcoin miners could have brought down the entire blockchain by flooding full node operators with traffic, via a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.

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Oatmeal Comic Website Caught in Crypto Ransom Crossfire

An anonymous hacker demanded a $300 ransom in Monero to stop a DDOS attack on comic website The Oatmeal.

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Cryptowhispers: DDoS Attacks, Serious Failure, Major Fox in Twitter Drama

The company partnered with Lionsgate to feature two products: the studio’s forthcoming movie and the app’s crypto platform. Fans were led via social media in an effort to find literal money drops off campus, around San Diego’s downtown.

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Cloudflare launches free protection for election websites

Cloudflare has launched a new initiative, called the Athenian Project, to protect electoral websites from online attacks. The service is available free of charge to state and local governments, and offers Cloudflare’s enterprise-level security and reliability services.

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What Is Golem? Introduction To GNT

The Golem Network could prove to be one of the most impressive dapps on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform (which launched as a beta, dubbed Brass, on Ethereum’s main net April 2018 after 14 software implementations) lets people rent out their spare computing power to join cluster computing networks.

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