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There's Some Intense Web Scans Going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum Wallets (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the search-continues dept.

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.

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  1. See "Tulip Mania" in 1637 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    "...a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble (or economic bubble)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...