Naked Security has news of a new piece of ransomware which is unlike more recent ones in that it is not simply a variant of CryptoLocker. Sophos have named the virus VirRansom and it differs to CryptoLocker in that it infects other files instead of just encrypting them in order to hold a user at ransom. Continue reading
Category Archives: Scams
Ethan Burnside Fined By SEC
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Ethan Burnside for operating the Bitcoin Trading Company (BTC-TC) and Litecoin Global (LTC-Global) virtual currency securities exchanges. Per the SEC's order Ethan Burnside will pay: Continue reading
MoneyBeat, A WSJ Blog, Confirms GAW Miners Is A Ponzi
MoneyBeat, a blog hosted by the Wall St Journal, has published a second article discussing accusations levied against Josh Garza's GAW Miners. Michael J Casey, who authored the piece, concludes that his research is unlikely to placate the "highly vocal critics" of GAW Miners. Garza appears to be quite happy with the article, proudly tweeting it to his followers via @gawceo. Continue reading
Bitcoin Blackmailer Given Four Year Jail Sentence
Last month, Qntra reported on Lewys Martin, a UK citizen who attempted to blackmail Halifax Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, to the tune of 2,800 BTC. Martin had previously been given a two year jail sentence for ddosing the websites of Oxford and Cambridge university. Continue reading
GAW Lawyers Attempt To Bully CoinFire
CoinFire have published a copy of a cease and desist letter they received from Baker Marquart on behalf of GAW Miners. The C&D comes on the back of yesterday's threat by Josh Garza to pursue CoinFire for making what he claims are libellous and false statements about GAW Miners. Continue reading
Breakout Gaming ICO Concludes
The Breakout Gaming Initial Coin Offerring has concluded with a total of 387.65244039 BTC being raised. The funds have since moved from 33Bghpzm4pgbSRgnqS63ZBf6dnSjbGc6Sf, having been split up and sent to various addresses. Following the sale, Breakout Gaming's CEO Billy Chung and head of marketing Gian Perroni spoke to CoinDesk1 and used it as an opportunity to misrepresent the facts surrounding the sale/scam. Continue reading
Despite Qntra's mention, CoinDesk only linked to us via a Google cache page. LOL ↩
GAW Miners Continue Scam While CoinFire Is Defaced
Yesterday CoinFire published an article titled "Is GAW Miners lying about partnerships? Telling statements from Walmart, Amazon, Target and More" in which some of the claims made by Josh Garza are proven to be false, specifically: Continue reading
Gavin Andresen: Core Development Has More Resources Than Ever! But We Can't Pay You
Gavin Andresen of the illegitimate Bitcon Fundation has posted an article titled "Strengthening the Core" in which he claims development of Bitcoin Core is less centralised than ever before while taking a dump on Satoshi for having previously completely controlled the project. Continue reading
Coinbase Seeking A Risk Investigator
Qntra previously reported on the use of Voxis Platform, a payment platform used by carders to convert stolen credit cards into cash and/or bitcoin via payment processors such as PayPal, Stripe and Coinbase. At the time of publication, Qntra contacted Coinbase regarding the allegations and asked if they could confirm that the Voxis Platform was being used by carders to target Coinbase. Qntra was told we would receive a reply after it was forwarded to legal to which no response has been received. Continue reading
CryptoCoinsNews: Disable Your Adblocker!
CryptoCoinsNews, a spamblog that accepts payment in exchange for the promotion of scams, is now demanding that readers of the website disable adblocking software or go elsewhere if they are unwilling to support the site. In the event the CCN website detects the use of an adblocker, the user is redirected to a page stating the following: Continue reading