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Experty’s keenly-awaited ICO has dissolved into disarray after a hacker targeted investors and stole roughly $150,000 in Ethereum (ETH) ahead of the event. Experty’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO), also known as a token sale, is designed to raise funds for a “Skype-like voice and video application” which could also take secure payments through the Blockchain. […]

Word of the offensive ads started no later than Tuesday, as people took to social media sites to criticize their antivirus programs were catching cryptocurrency mining code when they visited YouTube. Read more

Security researchers from Sucuri have found that about 2,000 WordPress CMS websites are infected with a malicious script (keylogger) that’s running on the WordPress backend login page and a web browser cryptocurrency miner called CoinHive on their frontends. Read more

These fake ad companies each had individual websites and even LinkedIn portraits for their fake CEOs. Their sole purpose was to interface with larger broadcasting platforms, looking as legitimate businesses. Read more

According to Voting Village organizers, they have been getting a bad time getting their palms on machines for white-hat hackers to test at the next Defcon situation in Las Vegas (held in August). That’s because polling machine makers are jumbling to get the machines off eBay and keep them away from the hands of the

University College of London conducted a study in which they surveyed fourteen year olds to know what they did in their free time. This study, named The Millennium Cohort Study, had a total of 11,000 respondents. The findings were quite surprising, as 5% of respondents claimed to have hacked or attempted to hack a computer

Internet of Things product manufacturers must get their act together and secure their devices or they risk creating new ways for wrongdoers to commit crimes, a senior police officer has warned. “All new technologies, all changes in the way that society is ordered — particularly if it is technology — always has a crime harvest.

A UK teenager pleaded guilty in a London court on the offences of breaching into intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by posing himself as the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. Kane Gamble, 18, who at the time of offences was aged 15 and 16 has accepted his crimes. He targeted John Brennan, CIA

A secret hacking group, which was said to have carried out a worldwide mobile espionage campaign, has been recently uncovered because of an exposed server on the internet. The Lebanese General Directorate of General Security, GDGS, is being suspected by researchers to have supported this act of cyber crime. Read more

In allegedly violating Game Industry Promotion Law, thirteen people were arrested by the South Korean government in the investigation of overwatch hacking incident. It was announced by the Blizzard entertainment on the Korean forum of the virtual game Overwatch, that the suspects were brought to the Korean prosecutor’s office for the violation of the Information