2020-4-16 20:10 |
North Korean cyber program is the subject of new U.S. Treasury and FBI advisory calling on the international community to address threats like Lazarus Group
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The US Treasury Office's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has blacklisted 20 new Bitcoin (BTC) addresses for their connection to two names from its sanctioned individuals list. As the OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list’s update says: Yinyin Tian and Jiadong Li have been involved with the Lazarus Group, infamous for hacking activities and […]
2020-3-3 23:18 | |
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A report published by cybersecurity organization Insikt Group claims internet use in North Korea has grown significantly in the past three years. The group cites a “300% increase in the volume of activity to and from North Korean networks since 2017,” and part of this activity involves monero (XMR) mining.
2020-2-13 11:10 | |
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According to a new report, North Korean internet usage is up as state actors use it as a means for raising revenues and skirting sanctions
2020-2-12 17:03 | |
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In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Bitcoin could be about to hit $10,000, new warnings about North Korea’s crypto conference, and Akon announces Akon City
2020-1-20 02:10 | |
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On Friday, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) convened for its final day with a great deal of well known speakers from the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. The slew of speakers discussed topics like the future of crypto mining, SLP tokens, digital currency enterprise solutions, creating new markets, and what to expect from government regulation […] The post Simple Ledger Protocol Shines During the Final Day of TNABC Miami appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-1-18 04:35 | |
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A new report shows that North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has adapted and evolved new techniques since initial attacks, and are using phony trading platforms linking to Telegram channels which distribute malware, as well as making their malware more stealthy by “adding an authentication mechanism in the macOS,” amongst other tactics.
2020-1-11 09:39 | |
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A new report shows that North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has adapted and evolved new techniques since initial attacks, and are using phony trading platforms linking to Telegram channels which distribute malware, as well as making their malware more stealthy by “adding an authentication mechanism in the macOS,” amongst other tactics.
2020-1-12 09:39 | |
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According to new research by Kaspersky labs, the infamous Lazarus group used 'enhanced capabilities' to attack cryptocurrency businesses. The firm has been following the cyber theft campaign dubbed 'OThe post North Korean hackers use fake websites, Telegram groups to steal cryptocurrencies appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-10 18:30 | |
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The Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has informed cryptocurrency users that North Korean hackers have developed new ways of delivering malware through Telegram. Kaspersky has been looking at the latest attacks of the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-related cybercrime organization that has also conducted the AppleJesus attack on some of the most important crypto exchanges in […]
2020-1-10 22:16 | |
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Virgil Griffith, an Ethereum Foundation Researcher is about to be indicted by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Court records indicate that he was indicted by a grand jury on 7th January 2020.
2020-1-9 19:40 | |
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A cybersecurity firm has warned hacking group Lazarus is developing sophisticated new techniques to steal cryptocurrencies from victims.
2020-1-9 18:00 | |
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The Lazarus hacker group — widely believed to be sponsored by North Korea — is deploying new viruses to steal cryptocurrencies, Kaspersky states
2020-1-10 16:14 | |
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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has been indicted in New York over allegations relating to a conference appearance in North Korea last April.
2020-1-9 14:37 | |
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The holidays are now done and over, and Santa has headed back to the North Pole to wait for next year to begin bringing gifts once again. However, if the ETH/BTC price chart is any indication, Ethereum holders may get a belated gift early in the new year, with a massive break of overhead resistance.... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.
2020-1-6 20:00 | |
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Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum Foundation research scientist arrested for allegedly aiding North Korea with sanction evasion, was released today on a $1 million bond just in time for the new year. Griffith was charged for violating federal law after traveling to North Korea to deliver a presentation on using cryptocurrency and blockchain.
2019-12-31 08:20 | |
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China accounts for over 60% of global Bitcoin mining, but a new…
The post Alpha Mining Project Set To Become Largest Crypto Mine In North America appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-10 17:06 | |
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Ted Budd, a Republican Congressman from North Carolina, has recently decided to reintroduce a crypto tax bill this week. The law will be a move to the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives soon.
2019-8-8 23:55 | |
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IBM is partnering with other companies to roll-out a massive blockchain-based program that will improve the supply chain management of 4,000 North American companies. Improved trackability, smaller administrative costs and less risk of fraud are the main benefits provided by the new blockchain-based solution.
2019-8-7 21:00 | |
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Today, IBM and Chainyard announced Trust Your Supplier (TYS), a blockchain-based platform for simplifying supply chain management and supplier verification and onboarding. Within the coming months, IBM plans to bring 4,000 of its North American suppliers onto the new network, potentially gaining an edge in the world of supply chain management.
2019-8-5 21:01 | |
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State-sponsored and criminal actors are mounting a wide array of cyber attacks against the global finance industry with an aim to steal data and sabotage trading systems, according to new research.
2019-8-1 15:32 | |
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A British think tank has revealed in a new study that Rockstar Games has apparently ducked taxes in the UK and received millions of pounds in subsidies — the latter by claiming at least one of its games, Grand Theft Auto V, to be a British game.
2019-7-30 23:48 | |
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North Korea is bringing its political indoctrination tactics to the digital age. The self-proclaimed republic is developing software designed to teach ideology to party members and workers, North Korean party daily Rodong Sinmun reports.
2019-7-11 12:04 | |
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Coinspeaker Ex-Ripple Boss Catherine Coley Joining Binance. US as Their CEOBinance. US onboarded former Ripple executive Catherine Coley as its new CEO. Coley, who worked as the head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple, will manage the launch of Binance.
2019-7-3 13:55 | |
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Binance appointed the former head of institutional liquidity at Ripple as the lead for the exchange’s upcoming U. S. crypto exchange operator, BAM trading services. According to a press release made by BAM Tuesday, the new CEO Catherine Coley will head up the launch of Binance’s recently announced outpost in North America, Binance.
2019-7-3 09:22 | |
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Dow Jones futures rocketed 250 points higher on Monday after Donald Trump’s whirlwind weekend of diplomacy. In a matter of days, he eased trade tensions with China, struck a friendly tone with Russia, and became the first sitting US president to step into North Korea.
2019-7-1 13:43 | |
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Previously, the heist that took away more than $530 million’s worth of cryptocurrency from the Japanese exchange Coincheck, was ascribed to North Korean hackers.
2019-6-18 14:48 | |
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By CCN Markets: Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck was dealt a significant blow in January 2018, losing $530 million worth of New Economy Movement (NEM) tokens to an unknown group of hackers. It is widely believed that North Korean hackers were behind the biggest crypto exchange theft ever.
2019-6-18 10:08 | |
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Russian Hackers Linked To Coincheck 2018 Hacking A new report of the investigation into the hacked Coincheck exchange has revealed that the personal computers of the exchanges’ staff workers have allegedly been established to have been compromised by a virus originating from a Russian hacker syndicate.
2019-6-17 20:30 | |
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Binance Launches New U. S. Division To Operate In The North American Country Binance, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange in the market, is working on its Binance U. S. division to launch its exchange in the country.
2019-6-14 01:02 | |
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Binance's new trading platform, Binance US, will specifically target North American customers. However, very little is known about Binance's partner, BAM Trading Services, which is said to be the platform's operator.
2019-6-14 22:16 | |
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HTC today launched its latest and greatest virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro Eye, to the North American market. The new device features Tobii eye-tracking, which gives the headset two keen features: users can navigate menus just by looking at things, and foveated rendering.
2019-6-7 23:35 | |
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At a recent Ripple Regional customer event for Middle East and North Africa (MENA), two separate speakers highlighted the ability of fintech innovation to deliver social impact for historically underserved populations.
2019-6-20 09:51 | |
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There has been a lot of volatility experienced in the regulatory atmosphere over the last year around the world. However, Ripple recently gave an update to their customers about the Ripple Regional event, which was based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
2019-5-30 01:22 | |
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Last week, we celebrated the 14th edition of TNW Conference. More than 15,000 people visited from across the globe to discuss the future of tech. Without a doubt, it was the greatest edition we’ve organized.
2019-5-17 13:09 | |
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The short and medium-term outlook continues in the uptrend. Traders may consider buying at higher lows as the cryptocurrency journeys north. BCH/USD Medium-term Trend: Bullish Supply zones: $500, $600, $700 Demand zones: $100, $50, $30 BCHUSD outlook in the medium-term continues in a bullish trend.
2019-5-15 07:57 | |
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Hut 8 Mining (named after Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing broke the enigma code and accelerated the end of World War II) has just filed its audited financial statements for 2018, detailing a tight but still profitable bitcoin mining business.
2019-5-10 20:04 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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Federal tax season just passed in the United States, but if you’re one to leave responsibility to the wayside and had to apply for an extension, that might just pay off.
2019-5-1 23:39 | |
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Marco Polo is the largest and fastest growing trade finance network in the world, powered by distributed ledger technology (DLT) and focusing on bringing significant efficiencies in financing trade. It is a joint initiative bringing together R3, TradeIX and 20 leading financial institutions based in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and the […]
2019-4-27 18:41 | |
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North Korea could pose a threat to countries across Southeast Asia as it looks to exploit cryptocurrency exchanges due to gaps in regulatory frameworks, according to a new report.
2019-4-25 17:04 | |
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By CCN. com: Four days after New York State Department of Financial Services’ executive deputy superintendent for banking Shirin Emami disclosed in an op-ed that having North Korean users on its platform was part of the reason Bittrex was denied a virtual currency business license, the cryptocurrency exchange has come out forcefully to deny the claim.
2019-4-23 12:53 | |
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If Bittrex is to be believed, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) got the two Koreas mixed up. The crypto exchange has affirmed recently that the New York regulators made a mistake when they identified two users as North Korean in the exchange.
2019-4-23 02:20 | |
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Crypto exchange Bittrex says New York regulators erred in identifying two of its users as North Korean.
2019-4-23 22:40 | |
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A new report into the alleged use of cryptocurrency by North Korea claims the whole of Southeast Asia is “vulnerable” to state actors. RUSI: North Korea Has ‘Gone To Extremes’ Published April 12, the report, Closing the Crypto Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity in Southeast Asia, comes courtesy of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI).
2019-4-16 22:00 | |
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The Dow lagged the broader U. S. stock market on Wednesday, as investors sifted through the transcript of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting, which offered very little in terms of new information or catalysts to jumpstart the next leg of the equities recovery.
2019-4-11 22:07 | |
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Bitstamp now can officially offer cryptocurrency trading services in the state of New York after the state’s Department of Financial Services granted the exchange a BitLicense. Obtaining a BitLicense is undoubtedly good news for the traditionally European-focused Bitstamp, which will now find it easier to make inroads into the United States cryptocurrency trading ecosystem and expand its presence in the large North American market.
2019-4-10 03:00 | |
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A small town in Canada, just north of Toronto, is joining Ohio in providing its citizens with an option to pay some taxes in cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. The town of Innisfil will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for property taxes in April, local news outlet Simcoe.
2019-3-29 13:16 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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TF Blockchain is bringing its blockchain conferences across North America with new chapters in Vancouver (BC), Seattle (WA), Portland (OR), and Austin (TX). CryptoSlate interviewed Preet Deol, the Vancouver chapter director, to determine what factors differentiate TF Blockchain from other conferences.
2019-3-28 16:50 | |
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Makina Finance lost 1,299 ETH, roughly $4. 13 million, in a flash-loan and oracle manipulation exploit. The attacker drained the protocol's funds and broadcast the transaction to Ethereum's public mempool, where it should have been picked up by validators and included in the next block.
Makina Finance lost 1,299 ETH, roughly $4. 13 million, in a flash-loan and oracle manipulation exploit. The attacker drained the protocol's funds and broadcast the transaction to Ethereum's public mempool, where it should have been picked up by validators and included in the next block.
According to the latest report, a former Coinbase customer service contractor has been arrested in India for their role in a recent data breach incident. This arrest comes after hackers reportedly bribed customer service representatives or contractors to gain access to customer information at the US’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Two headlines hit the internet within hours of each other this week, and together they map the current state of DeFi’s security theater. StakeWise DAO executed contract calls to recover approximately $19.
A forfeiture complaint shared by blockchain detective ZachXBT revealed that the $150 million hack suffered by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen resulted from private keys stored in the password manager LastPass, which was compromised in 2022.
Safe published a preliminary report on Mar. 6 attributing the breach that led to the Bybit hack to a compromised developer laptop. The vulnerability resulted in the injection of malware, which allowed the hack.
Thorchain is experiencing a developer exodus, as hackers from Lazarus Group are using the interoperability-focused blockchain to launder Ethereum (ETH) stolen in the Bybit hack. A Thorchain developer known as TCB announced that Pluto, the protocol’s unofficial lead developer, is stepping down.