theft – Martijn Grooten / Lapsed Ordinary Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:24:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 $150k in cryptocurrency stolen through combined BGP-DNS hijack /2018/04/25/150k-in-cryptocurrency-stolen-through-combined-bgp-dns-hijack/ /2018/04/25/150k-in-cryptocurrency-stolen-through-combined-bgp-dns-hijack/#respond Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:24:28 +0000 https://www.lapsedordinary.net/?p=425 A BGP hijack was used to take over some of Amazon’s DNS infrastructure, which was then used to serve a phishing site to users of the MyEtherWallet service.
Read more on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

]]> /2018/04/25/150k-in-cryptocurrency-stolen-through-combined-bgp-dns-hijack/feed/ 0 How to trace stolen bitcoin? The answer may be a 200-year-old U.K. law /2018/04/11/how-to-trace-stolen-bitcoin-the-answer-may-be-a-200-year-old-u-k-law/ /2018/04/11/how-to-trace-stolen-bitcoin-the-answer-may-be-a-200-year-old-u-k-law/#respond Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:42:04 +0000 https://www.lapsedordinary.net/?p=452 A Cambridge professor has found how an 1816 legal ruling can be used to trace stolen bitcoins, thus potentially making it easier for governments to legislate bitcoin exchanges.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)

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