Prices have skyrocketed at Indian Bitcoin exchange platforms following the government decision to denominate the 500 and 1,000 Rupees currency notes with only a night's notice.
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force Coinbase to disclose the personal details of all US users that have conducted Bitcoin trades between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015.
A team of internationally-recognized cryptography experts has helped launch a new cryptocurrency called Zcash, which promises the anonymity Bitcoin couldn't deliver.
Sophos recently reported about a Trojan that installs a Monero mining program called NsCpuCNMiner32.exe on an infected computer and then spreads itself to other computers and FTP sites. Since connected Seagate Central devices have a writable Public folder, many have been compromised by this ransomware.
Researchers have devised a new cryptocurrency called DDoSCoin that could potentially incentivize criminals to harass, extort, and attack websites designated as targets. This coin would award people who perform Denial of Service Attacks on chosen victims by rewarding them with DDosCoins.
Adware bundlers are now installing cryptocurrency miners on victim's computers. A new offer called VNLGP Miner has been discovered that installs a cryptocurrency miner that utilizes 70% of the user's graphics card in order to generate revenue for the developer.