The Manhattan district attorney has indicted a group of individuals with allegedly selling drugs and laundering millions with bitcoin. The Manhattan district attorney has indicted a group of individuals with allegedly selling drugs and laundering millions of dollars with bitcoin (BTC). The development was announced in a press release published on April 16. Manhattan District […]
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U.S. federal jury convicted two alleged Romanian hackers of spreading malware to steal credit card credentials and illicitly mine cryptocurrency. A federal jury has convicted two Romanian alleged cybercriminals of spreading malware to steal credit card credentials and illicitly mine cryptocurrency, an announcement from the official website of the United States Department of Justice revealed […]
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Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox announced new protections against crypto mining attacks in its new browser versions. Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox has launched new protections against crypto mining malware in its new browser versions, according to a blog post published on April 9. In its latest Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67 versions, Mozilla […]
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The issue, which affected only a handful of users, now has a dedicated patch, while balances have been returned. Monero (XMR) developers have fixed a bug involving cryptocurrency hardware wallet Ledger that made user funds look like they had disappeared, they confirmed on social media on April 8. Reported in early March, the bug, which […]
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Bitcoin wallet Electrum faces another hack that involves fake software versions stealing users’ money. Bitcoin (BTC) wallet service Electrum is facing an ongoing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on its servers, the company reported on Twitter on April 7. According to tech news website The Next Web, the new attack has caused users to lose estimatedly millions […]
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The World Economic Forum released a report about blockchain cybersecurity. The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report about blockchain cybersecurity on April 5. The report points out that most data breaches do not result from the level of skill of the hackers, but instead happen because appropriate security measures often are not implemented. The […]
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Crypto mining seems popular among students, but does this “free” money thing really work? Last month, reports surfaced on crypto mining research conducted by tech conglomerate Cisco with the following headline: “College kids are using campus electricity to mine crypto.” Indeed, many students don’t have to worry about paying power bills, as per their university […]
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This week saw the hacks of several large cryptocurrency exchanges, while the SEC pushed back their BTC ETF decision. Top Stories This Week Owner of ICO That Never Happened Attempts to Sell Project on eBay for $60,000 The owner of a crypto-related startup dubbed Sponsy, which never launched its initial coin offering (ICO), is attempting […]
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A new strain of Trojan malware for Android phones is targeting global users of top crypto apps such as Coinbase, BitPay and Bitcoin Wallet. A new strain of Trojan malware for Android phones is targeting global users of top crypto apps such as Coinbase, BitPay and Bitcoin Wallet, as well as banks including JPMorgan, Wells […]
Continue ReadingA Japanese court has acquitted a man who was allegedly illicitly mining cryptocurrency after embedding a dedicated program in his website. A Japanese court has acquitted a man who was accused of illicitly mining cryptocurrency by using the computing power of visitors to his website, Japan Today reported on March 27. The Yokohama District Court […]
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