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There's Some Intense Web Scans Going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum Wallets (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: With both Bitcoin and Ethereum price hitting all-time highs in the past seven days, cyber-criminals have stepped up efforts to search and steal funds stored in these two cryptocurrencies. These mass Internet scanning campaigns have been recently picked up by various honeypots installed by security researchers across the Internet. The first of these, aimed at Bitcoin owners, was picked up by security researcher Didier Stevens over the weekend, just two days before Bitcoin was about to jump from $7,000 to over $8,000.
There are some...
Surely some kind moderator call advise me where to "invest" all my monies in this river of bitwealth!
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Why crack cryptocurrency wallets? Because that's where the money is.
It appears that the crims are poking around looking for files named 'wallet.dat' or some variation thereof. Their next step would be to decrypt the data file. So just leave a bunch of random content wallet.dat files lying around and tie up their processing power.
Have gnu, will travel.
Advanced AI will allow hackers to be tracked down much more easily, although we can't arrest our way out of this problem. It will require legalizing drone strikes on hackers to fix this.
Black site enhanced interrogations too, assuming they survive under their pile of Cheetoh bags.
Drone strikes against Indochimp Slashdot editors would be nice, too.
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Creimer affiliate spam, mod down.
Two Creimer affiliate scams in one? Oh my. Please mod down.
Me american. Me too smart. Me not drink the peepee part.
Part of the problem is that at least one of the most popular software wallets - namely Jaxx - refuses to encrypt the private-key that is stored on the user's computer with any user-defined password, thus of course there are scripts out there that can instantly decrypt Jaxx wallets from any computer a hacker gets sufficient access to. This issue has been raised in the past, but the people behind Jaxx disingenuously insist their wallet is not intended for storing any amount of value, a dubious claim which in any case has clearly not gotten through to their users, while on the whole users seem rather unconcerned/unaware, which of course they should be.
This kind of thing is obviously inevitable as long as software wallets don't bother to at least encrypt what is stored on the users' computers with a user-defined password. When the software wallets fail to provide such security, users of cryptocurrencies are really left with a lot of very bad choices for where to put their 'digital gold' - storing on exchanges with a very chequered history (many cases of exchanges losing users' coins or collapsing or making it very difficult to withdraw them) or insecure software wallets, ...) - and a very few (mostly more difficult) good ones that they're on the whole more unlikely to stumble across (hardware wallets if everything is done properly and they don't lose the piece of hardware themselves, possibly some more secure software wallets).
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Dammit, I keep messing up that referrer link. Fixed now.
get a firewall (a physical machine, not your preposterous windows security software) and a grown up's OS. your welcome.