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Parkview Medical Center’s system for storing patient information was infected with ransomware and rendered inoperable
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Ransomware, which recently totally disrupted the government in Baltimore, has now overtaken a court system in Georgia . Ransomware Making A Comeback? After receiving a ransom note, officials in Georgia decided to take a system offline to be safe.
2019-7-3 09:54 | |
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Officials in Lake City, Florida, paid $500,000 worth of bitcoin to hackers who had brought down the city's computer system for two weeks. Lake City is the second Florida town in as many weeks to pay a bitcoin ransom as a result of a ransomware attack.
2019-6-27 22:16 | |
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Riviera Beach city officials voted to pay 65 BTC to hackers who seized control over the city’s online utility system
2019-6-21 23:26 | |
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Have you come across a new “Bitcoin Collector” program promising up to $45 worth of free cryptocurrency each day? It might sound enticing, but best to stay away: the app is a virus designed to infect your system with ransomware or password-stealing malware.
2019-5-27 13:30 | |
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Over a week after a cyberattack halted Baltimore’s computer networks, city officials declared Wednesday they can’t prognosticate when its overall system will be up and running and continued to give only the broadest outlines of the problem.
2019-5-16 20:22 | |
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Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency.
2019-4-19 21:17 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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Cybersecurity has long battled against ransomware. Scammers that use general hacking are a lower level of threat, but the use of ransomware puts computers at risk of being completely shut down. This kind of software being integrated into a network has the power to completely ruin a system, and LockerGoga is taking full advantage. LockerGoga […]
2019-3-27 01:58 | |
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Boston public defenders suffered a ransomware attack some weeks back but have chosen not to send the bitcoin demanded by the attacker. Instead, they decided to use back-ups to restore services. The Committee oversees public defenders in Boston.
2019-3-15 20:33 | |
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U. S. -based digital asset platform Coinbase has acquired blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino. The company made the news known earlier today, February 19, 2019, but the cost of the acquisition was not disclosed.
2019-2-20 23:12 | |
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Monero has officially released its Malware Response Workgroup website yesterday. In an effort to help protect Monero’s community, the website aims to provide resources to educate about the types of malware that may take advantage of users.
2018-9-29 23:18 | |
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Iranian hackers are currently responsible for a series of ransomware attacks. These attacks tend to render a computer system unusable until a certain number of bitcoins are paid, As reported by the Wall Street Journal on August 7, 2018.
2018-8-9 11:26 | |
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An upcoming security tool called White Rabbit will utilize machine learning in tandem with a dataset of Bitcoin addresses in order to prevent cybercrime. The platform will detect and predict which addresses are involved in illegal activity and will act as an “early warning system” that detects ransomware campaigns. This is how it works: White […]
2018-8-8 11:34 | |
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An upcoming security tool called White Rabbit will utilize machine learning in tandem with a dataset of Bitcoin addresses in order to prevent cybercrime. The platform will detect and predict which addresses are involved in illegal activity and will act as an “early warning system” that detects ransomware campaigns.
2018-8-7 21:12 | |
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Blockchain will be the cornerstone of the world, providing the financial and governance framework for all intelligent entities, whether biological or artificial.
World Liberty Finance (WLFI), the DeFi protocol backed by President Donald Trump’s family, acquired over $1. 9 million of MOVE tokens on Jan. 28. The move comes amid separate reports that Movement Labs is among the firms discussing blockchain usage with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announced its first foray into financial services in partnership with Visa. The initiative introduces the X Money Account, a digital wallet allowing users to transfer funds, make peer-to-peer payments, and connect with traditional banking.
What does DeepSeek’s shake-up mean for crypto’s future, and could its cost-effective approach create new opportunities for decentralized AI applications and GPU-reliant ecosystems? DeepSeek getting all the attention On Jan.
Blockchain technologies can provide a reliable decentralized infrastructure for secure communications—a bastion they are unlikely to overcome
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin issued a stark warning about the potential dangers of “politician coins,” calling them a “perfect bribery vehicle” that could undermine the integrity of democratic systems.
Two years after the collapse of FTX: Does crypto need a rebrand to gain mainstream adoption and bridge the gap of Untrustworthiness?