Sophos revealed recent botnet attacks breach Microsoft SQL server databases to install a well-known Monero mining app. Recent reports revealed that a group of hackers behind the Kingminer botnet targeted vulnerable Microsoft SQL server databases to mine cryptocurrencies at some point in the second week of June. According to the cybersecurity firm Sophos, the attackers […]
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An article published by Yonhap suggests that South Korean merchants are open to accepting digital yuan as a payment method in the near future. South Korean media outlets suggest that local merchants could accept the upcoming digital yuan as a payment method once the COVID-19 pandemic passes, and Chinese tourist flow increases in the […]
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Kroll’s Cyber Risk team detected a growing trend in the use of banking trojans to launch ransomware attacks. A study by risk solutions provider, Kroll, identified a growing trend in the use of Qakbot trojan, or Qbot, to launch email thread hijacking campaigns and to deploy ransomware attacks. According to the findings in conjunction with […]
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Experts say CoinMarketCap’s update is not good enough after the latest method tweak causes further controversy among the community. For reasons of vanity as well as for those of industry health, it’s important to have a good method for ranking crypto exchanges and coins. But as the past few years have shown, no foolproof method […]
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Now, more than ever, the economic efficiency and transparency is omnipresent, and emerging technologies such as blockchain have highlighted the dire need for such solutions. We are currently living in an unprecedented time, with the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world and taking far too many precious lives. Markets are being decimated and economies are on […]
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The Kava decentralized finance project has launched on the Cosmos blockchain, giving users the ability to put BNB for collateral to receive its stablecoin, USDX. The Kava decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol officially launched on Cosmos (ATOM) mainnet, with an initial onboarding of Binance Coin (BNB) as a collateral form. Kava works in a similar way […]
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The Libra Association just filled a key role. The Libra Association, the group behind Facebook’s digital asset endeavor, unveiled an update to its brass. The association announced Sterling Daines fills the role of announced its Chief Compliance Officer, or CCO, at the ourfit, said a statement provided to Cointelegraph staff. Daines will leave his post at Credit […]
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Coil takes an 8% stake in tech news platform Hacker Noon, seeking to implement Web Monetization for their 10,000 plus contributing writers. Content-monetization specialist, Coil, announced on June 10 that it had made a strategic investment into independent technology publishing platform, Hacker Moon. This also marked the start of a three-year partnership between the companies, […]
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Here’s how the crypto derivatives market compares to the traditional derivatives one. Crypto derivatives volumes have hit a new record high in May 2020. The early generation of crypto investors mostly worked with a hold-and-sell perspective. With the inevitable evolution of the market and the advent of cryptocurrency derivatives, investors with varied agendas — such […]
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Florence, AL was targeted by the DoppelPaymer ransomware attack and officials plan to pay the ransom demanded. A ransomware gang launched an attack on the information technology systems of Florence, Alabama in may. This attack came despite warnings by cybersecurity firms about possible hacker infiltration into the city’s infrastructure. According to a KrebsOnSecurity report from […]
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