Tech Bitcoin firm CEO found dead in suspected suicide Published March 05, 2014 New York Post 0 0 It appears bitcoin’s recent turmoil has claimed its first life.Autumn Ratke a 28-year-old American CEO of bitcoin exchange firm First Meta was found dead in her Singapore apartment on Feb.BREAKING: Satoshi Nakamoto, the mystery man behind bitcoin, finally located Local media are calling it a suicide, but Singapore officials are waiting for toxicology test results.Ratke formerly worked with Apple and other Silicon Valley tech firms on developing digital payment systems.[pullquote] More On This... Roku unveils new video-streaming stick in response to popularity of Google's Chromecast Tech tools for the next Oscar contenders In pictures, Ghana's e-waste disaster Welcome to Hell: Photographer documents Africa’s e-waste nightmare Calif.man denies he's Bitcoin founder after Newsweek report Poverty, disparity grow along with prosperity in Silicon Valley's boom What can you buy with bitcoins?

Ratke’s death brings the number of questionable financial sector deaths this year to eight.18 a 33-year-old JPMorgan finance pro leaped to his death the roof of the JPMorgan’s 30-story Hong Kong office tower.Li Junjie’s suicide marked the third mysterious death of a JPMorgan banker.So far, there is no other known link between any of the deaths.Gabriel Magee, 39, a vice president with the JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank technology arm in the UK, also jumped to his death from the roof of the bank’s 33-story Canary Wharf tower in London on Jan.3, Ryan Henry Crane, 37, a JPM executive director who worked in New York, was found dead inside his Stamford, Conn., home.A cause of death in Crane’s case has not be determined until a toxicology report is complete, according to a spokesperson for the Stamford detectives division.The report is expected within two weeks.Read more at the New York Post.Get Latest Articles to Your Inbox The TorRAT malware was first appeared in 2012 as spying tool only.

But from August 2012, Bitcoin Mining feature was added and it became a powerful hacking tool that was commonly associated with attacks on Financial institutions.ab This year TorRat Malware targeted two out of three major Banks in the Netherlands and the criminals stole over Million Dollars from user' Banking Accounts.The Dutch police has arrested four men from Alkmaar, Haarlem, Woubrugge and Roden on last Monday, who are suspected of involvement in the large scale digital fraud and money laundering case using TorRat Malware.Using Spear Phishing techniques, gang  targeted the victims to access their computers and the Financial accounts.The gang used anonymous VPN services, Bitcoins, TorMail and the Tor network itself to remain anonymous.Malware is also capable of manipulating the information during online banking, can secretly add new payment orders and also able to modify existing orders.To defend the detection from Antivirus softwares, TorRat uses the ZeuS malware in its attack.

The technique was used to divert the focus of researchers to remove ZeuS infection, rather than the unknown malware on the system.Some of the stolen money was converted by criminals to (56 BTC worth around 7700 Euros) Bitcoin virtual currency, which are now seized by Dutch police.litecoin full source codePolice also mentioned that, one of arrested criminal having his own Bitcoin exchange service.litecoin chart euroThe TorRAT malware has been known to be distributed in multiple ways.bitcoin kaufen österreichIn April, TorRat was in news for hijacking twitter accounts.bitcoin to uroAfter infecting a vulnerable computers, the TorRAT malware hijacks the Twitter user’s account and share links that lead to attack websites that attempt to inject TorRAT malware into the victim’s computer.bitcoin restore from backup

The main reason why this particular attack is so effective is because victims are essentially receiving links to the TorRAT malware from sources they trust; accounts that they follow on Twitter.bitcoin pool share difficultyTorRAT malware involves using Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) tactics to infect computers through vulnerabilities in their Web browser.ecuador bans bitcoinThese kinds of attacks were used to take over a victim’s online banking account.bitcoin dice investThey made more than 150 fraudulent transactions for victim's accounts and Police said that, because Gang was operating from the Netherlands, so tracking them become possible.ethereum price november 2016prosecutors late last week charged a Florida man in connection with an illegal bitcoin exchange.

According to a report by Reuters, Ricardo Hill, 38, was arrested in Florida in October and charged with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting firm.Hill is linked to an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by a person in Israel that is accused of hacks on JPMorgan Chase.The report noted Hill was released on a $75,000 bond after he appeared in court.The report noted Hill is one of nine people who are facing charges as part of the hack of JPMorgan, which the bank disclosed in 2014.The records of more than 83 million accounts were compromised in that incident.Hill was the finance support manager and a business development consultant for Coin.mx, which is a bitcoin exchange that is unlicensed.Prosecutors contend Coin.mx was operated by Anthony Murgio of Florida and owned by Gery Shalon, the Israeli accused of being behind the JPMorgan hack and that of other companies.This spring, according to indictment documents that were recently unsealed in the case of the hacks into financial services players, including JPMorgan, E*TRADE Financial, Scottrade Financial Services and Dow Jones, the three hackers that were involved in illegally intercepting information about stock prices linked to an illegal online gambling ring had a connection to bitcoin — potentially.