2018-11-30 18:00 |
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point say a relatively new form of crypto mining malware, dubbed KingMiner, is “evolving.”
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Crypto-jacking schemes are getting more intricate by the day. It appears hackers are now disguising cryptocurrency mining malware and passing it off as legitimate Windows installation packages.
2018-11-8 18:20 | |
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Ethereum’s family reunion kicks off, OKEx prunes some trading pairs, and SC Johnson fights to clean the ocean but researchers say it's too late.
2018-10-30 02:24 | |
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A group of researchers from The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) laid out in an op-ed published Oct. 19 why they believe the blockchain may not necessarily be the tool to fix America’s troubled voting system.
2018-10-22 10:00 | |
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Facebook is sharing personally identifying information that you never submitted to the social network with its advertisers – and you can’t erase it from their records. That’s from a paper (PDF) published by researchers at Northeastern University and Princeton University, who looked into how ad targeting works on Facebook.
2018-9-28 08:41 | |
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Ethereum devs are edging closer to scaling Ethereum. A new paper, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin, claims to have eliminated certain security trade-offs plaguing its new ‘sharding‘ tech. Researchers Mustafa Al-Bassam and Alberto Sonnino from University College London teamed up with Buterin to publish, what they say, is the key to fixing Ethereum’s scalability problems.
2018-9-26 17:47 | |
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A team from one of the top universities in China has developed a decentralized exchange, not for crypto assets, but for unused electricity.
2018-8-6 14:30 | |
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The first piece of blockchain-related tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting to be hacked. Telegram Passport is meant to be a secure way of managing identity documents.
2018-8-3 18:08 | |
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Coinmarketcap (CMC), the popular cryptocurrency markets tracker portal, has launched a professional-grade API for aggregated market data and added support for derivatives markets as part of a major quarterly overhaul of its operations.
2018-8-2 14:50 | |
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Telegram has put out its first app since its ICO, but that identity play has security researchers reeling.
2018-8-2 21:25 | |
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If you have been following the mainstream financial press, and even some cryptocurrency news sources, you could not have missed the hype around the so called “Blockchain”. It feels like every day another established company claims to be testing using the technology to disrupt its own industry.
2018-8-1 18:55 | |
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Imperial College London recently released a research paper that points to the imminent adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance. The report’s authors believe that Bitcoin already exhibits the core properties of money, and thus could become the de facto currency for global commerce within the next decade.
2018-7-10 00:33 | |
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In a new financial system research report, economists say the environment is ripe for central banks to issue digital currencies. However, they cautioned against cryptocurrencies, given the high volatility in their prices, which would not be conducive to a national financial system.
2018-6-28 19:19 | |
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“There were obviously tremendous price increases last year, and this paper indicates that manipulation played a large part in those price increases,” Mr. Griffin said. Bitfinex executives have denied in the past that the exchange was involved in any manipulation.
2018-6-13 22:03 | |
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South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
2018-6-11 18:04 | |
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The cybersecurity firm predicted that crypto-related cybercrime won't slow down in 2023, but it will move on from Bitcoin as a source of payment.
Intel is set to collaborate with Microsoft to defend against cryptojacking. According to an official press release, the two leading tech companies will work hand-in-hand in fighting cryptojacking threats for users.
The Microsoft Security Intelligence team confirmed the presence of a new ‘info-stealing malware’ present in its Windows computers. In a tweet on Aug 27, the MSI team stated the malware was first spotted on cybercriminal black markets in June but has recently started spreading widely across the globe.
A monero mining script has been embedded in a public instance of an AWS virtual machine. How many others are similarly infected?
Cisco Systems threat intelligence team has released a warning regarding a newly discovered Monero Mining crypto-jacking botnet called “Prometei. ” The notice stated that the botnet not only mines Monero using targeted computer’s resources but also steals data from the system.
A security incident on Twitter duped businesses and people into sending at least $120,000 worth of Bitcoin to an anonymous online wallet, half of which has already been spirited to other accounts. Given that some of the Twitter accounts targeted were using two-factor authentication (2FA) and strong passwords, the hack may be internal to twitter. […]
In the first six months of 2020, scammers made off with about $24 million in bitcoin, as per the Twitter bot Whale Alert's latest report. These scams involved giveaways, sextortion, fake exchanges, fake ICO's, bitcoin recovery, video scams, Ponzi schemes, fake tumblers, malware, and so on.