2019-6-6 18:02 |
The Danish Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced that an Initial Coin Offering is not a security because, according to a rough translation: “The reason is that, with the relevant... origin »
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With the infamous cryptocurrency mining script Coinhive now offline, you’d be forgiven for thinking crypto-jacking was a thing of the past. Sadly though, security researchers have uncovered a new malware family that’s attacking hardware to get it to secretly mine cryptocurrency.
2019-6-4 15:50 | |
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An Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange is facing an uncertain future. Blockport has declared bankruptcy after its security token offering (STO) failed to meet its minimum expectations last month.
2019-6-4 13:21 | |
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According to a new report released by the Cybersecurity firm Guardicore Labs, hackers were able to breach over 50,000 servers around the world and start mining virtual currencies. This has been performed through an unusually sophisticated method.
2019-6-4 00:57 | |
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A recent post on the Cosmos Network Forum highlighted a critical security vulnerability. According to the post, the vulnerability was reported to the Tendermintn team. It continues that a patch is available in v 0.
2019-6-4 00:22 | |
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According to a recent report by BleepingComputer, the Qulab trojan, created to illegally acquire information, has once again made its appearance. This time using YouTube to propagate a series of fraudulent videos revealing information about the alleged availability of a free bitcoin (BTC) generator.
2019-6-3 18:30 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published an update on how it intends to regulate crypto-related businesses and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2019-6-1 19:04 | |
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Hackers from North Korea are making headlines again, this time for going after the funds of users of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit. The hackers allegedly sent a phishing email to UpBit users earlier this week.
2019-5-31 11:29 | |
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According to a press release issued May 29, 2019, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group’s subsidiary, Rakuten Wallet, entered into a partnership with blockchain security firm CipherTrace to bolster its upcoming cryptocurrency exchange’s anti-money laundering (AML) measures.
2019-5-30 13:28 | |
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A handful of projects could decide the future of security tokenization, according to a leading figure at a security issuer. Matthew Le Merle of Securitize says that the first STO’s could become paragons of asset tokenization – or they could set the industry back by a decade.
2019-5-24 22:16 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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By CCN: Terrorist organizations getting support in the form of cryptocurrency are becoming the norm, according to Russia’s FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. As per local news portal RBC, citing media agency Tass, the chief of Russia’s Federal Security Service (the FSB’s successor) reported on the latest updates in the international terrorist networks at a meeting of the heads of security agencies of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states.
2019-5-22 13:11 | |
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Dragonchain, an enterprise blockchain-as-a-service provider originally developed out of a Disney technology incubator, was awarded a patent for a loyalty system that tracks and monetizes time on the blockchain, according to documents published by the U.
2019-5-21 22:50 | |
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In the past seven weeks, white hat hackers earned at least $32,150 by fixing security flaws in popular cryptocurrency and blockchain platforms like TRON, Brave, EOS and Coinbase. According to data reviewed by Hard Fork, 15 blockchain-related firms have paid rewards to security researchers between March 28 and May 16, split across 30 publicly-released bug reports.
2019-5-20 18:21 | |
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The prominent messaging platform Whatsapp has brought the common man one step closer to adopting crypto. According to a recent announcement by Zulu Republic, Bitcoin [BTC] and Litecoin [LTC] would be the first two coins available for users to send and receive on the social messaging platform.
2019-5-20 13:30 | |
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Ethereum clients that still haven't patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research.
2019-5-17 16:00 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is preparing to leave its $40 million hack behind it, confirming it had relaunched most of its service May 15. Binance Goes Live (Again) Only around one week after hackers managed to circumvent security mechanisms in what CEO Changpeng Zhao said was a coordinated attack, Binance is finishing its last checks before going fully live.
2019-5-15 16:30 | |
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Blockchain security company BitGo is launching a new service for institutional clients: a clearing and settlements system that operates off-chain. BitGo announced this new service in a press release on May 14, 2019, describing some of the features that this new system will have.
2019-5-15 23:44 | |
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Australia Based PFC Capital Group To Launch 250 Million USD Security Offering With Koreconx PFC Capital Group, an Australian capital advisory company has chosen KoreConX, a permissioned blockchain system, for a 250 million USD digital security offering.
2019-5-15 23:40 | |
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Cryptopia, the New Zealand-based exchange that made headlines earlier this year due to a security breach, is back in the limelight. According to a Redditor, Fallenkeith2018, the exchange’s website has reportedly been down for around eight hours now, with the platform citing maintenance as a reason.
2019-5-14 15:13 | |
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WhatsApp, the messaging app used by more than 1. 5 billion worldwide, says it’s patched a critical security vulnerability which allowed attackers to secretly infect phones with malicious spyware by just calling phone numbers over an in-app audio call.
2019-5-14 14:18 | |
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US authorities have seized over $4 million worth of cryptocurrency and cash following a movie piracy investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
2019-5-14 13:19 | |
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Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, is partnering with Polymath as the co-architect of “Polymesh”—a blockchain that aims to become “layer one” for security tokens, as first reported by Forbes contributor Rachel Wolfson at Consensus 2019.
2019-5-14 06:39 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that it will be revamping its security network to prevent a recurrence of the 7,000 BTC hack it experienced on May 78, 2019.
2019-5-11 19:59 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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ICOs were all the rage in 2017 and early 2018. Since then, regulatory agencies have cracked down on them because of the many that were scams. With the regulators favoring security token offerings (STOs), startups are now beginning to adopt them as a means of raising funds for their projects. According to the Financial Times, […]
2019-5-9 03:13 | |
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There are many organizations and corporations that are eager to use blockchain to increase efficiency and transparency in their respective sectors. However, it appears as though there are a growing number of bots that are exploiting vulnerabilities in various cryptocurrency exchanges according to a Homeland Security News Wire article published on May 6, 2019.
2019-5-8 15:00 | |
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There exist slamming reports after slamming reports of hackers stealing billions from exchanges, yet users still opt for convenience over security. Maybe now that powerhouse Binance has become the latest target of a 7000 BTC hack, users will finally wake up.
2019-5-8 12:00 | |
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Although the trade will continue, the $ 40 million leak means that Binance will stop withdrawals and deposits for a week, while conducting a safety audit. Binance suffered a large-scale security breach today, according to a statement.
2019-5-8 04:29 | |
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By CCN: According to The Next Web and explosive data from HackerOne, a security bounty website, a single computer could have shut down the Tron network by draining the cryptocurrency network’s resources.
2019-5-7 00:00 | |
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According to Investopedia, wash trading is a “process whereby a trader buys and sells a security for the express purpose of feeding misleading information to the market.” One sign of wash trading is when the trading volume of a financial instrument increases where there is no sign of market demand beforehand. Further, the increase in […]
2019-5-5 00:47 | |
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The court in the Roberts v. Obelisk, Inc. case has granted a motion to compel arbitration, according to a report by The Block Crypto. The ongoing case (Roberts v. Obelisk, Inc. , 2019 U. S. Dist.
2019-5-5 21:42 | |
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Phone scams are on the rise according to officials at the New York Police Department. Thieves have stolen over $2 million posing as false social security officials. Requesting payments are made in BTC, prepaid gift cards and bank wire transfers, they have forced the police to issue warnings to unsuspecting targets. Using trust warranted by […]
2019-5-4 02:25 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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In New York, Bitcoin scammers are impersonating Social Security Administrators. A report by The Next Web reveals the New York Police Department (NYPD) sent out a warning to the public, alerting them to fraudsters who call and ask for payment in bank wire transfers, bitcoin (BTC), and prepaid gift cards.
2019-5-3 20:00 | |
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As part of its efforts to be regulatory compliant, Malta-based crypto exchange Binance has partnered with Blockchain startup Elliptic. According to a Coindesk report, the partnership will help Binance mitigate anti-money laundering (AML) concerns as it expands into new regions.
2019-5-3 19:27 | |
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Crypto security and intelligence firm CipherTrace has published its Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, revealing that exchange platforms all over the world have lost nearly $400 million as a result of hacks and thefts.
2019-5-3 17:40 | |
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According to a study released by Longhash on April 29, 2019, the relative usage of CoinJoin out of all bitcoin transactions has tripled in one year, currently sitting at 4.
2019-5-2 23:50 | |
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Ethereum Staking Could Very Well Become A $160 million Industry – According To Vitalik's Proposal According to a brand new proposal provided by the creator of Ethereum – Vitalik Buterin – he argues that he is contemplating an increase in rewards for the validators within the network who would serve to provide security on the […]
2019-5-1 23:24 | |
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A botnet that has been targeting Electrum users just won’t quit. If anything, it seems to be picking up more hosts along the way and getting stronger. In the past month, the number of infected hosts has averaged 100,000.
2019-4-30 09:18 | |
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On April 25, the Mt. Gox civil rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi published a new announcement concerning the deadline for the rehabilitation plan. According to the letter sent to Mt. Gox creditors, Kobayashi has delayed the proceedings for another six months due to “undetermined” claims.
2019-4-28 17:40 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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According to the investors within the crypto space, they believe that security tokens are making a little more sense than the utility tokens. According to the Chief Product Officer of Polymath (POLY), Thomas Borrel, getting the paper equity tokenized might actually miss the point.
2019-4-26 18:34 | |
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Security tokens make more sense than utility tokens, according to the latest wisdom among crypto investors. Sure, there are some conceptual gymnastics, but the actual product is a digital equivalent of paper equity, which has been widely traded for almost 500 years.
2019-4-26 18:47 | |
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp continues to be a hotbed for sharing sexual abuse videos in India, according to fresh findings from Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF), a New Delhi-based cyber security and policy think tank that fights against online crimes and warfare.
2019-4-24 16:32 | |
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There’s a blockchain bandit on the loose – and they’ve already thieved over $6. 1 million worth of Ethereum. According to a report published by security consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), an unknown entity has been bypassing weak private keys to swipe large amounts of Ether.
2019-4-24 16:22 | |
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The “Blockchain Bandit” Uses Guesses To Steal ETH From Weak Private Keys, According To Analyst Hackers are getting increasingly clever by the day, finding ways to infiltrate customer wallets with phishing, technical advancements, and more.
2019-4-24 00:34 | |
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China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center just accused the United States of carrying out the 2020 LuBian Bitcoin exploit. However, Western research ties the event to a wallet random-number flaw and does not name a state actor.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump promised a “21st Century” payments upgrade without requiring a central bank digital currency, putting the GENIUS Act at the center of the plan.
In a recent interview, President Donald Trump admitted to not knowing who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was before he pardoned him last month. According to a BBC News article, President Donald Trump sat down to talk about his decision to…
Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times magazine and Penguin Random House. According to the lawsuit, the NYT’s alleged smear campaign was intended to harm his reputation and business. The token is 70% down…
Federal Reserve rates tension
Сообщение Trump’s 29-Year-Old Crypto Adviser Bo Hines Exits White House, Weighs Multiple Private Sector Offers появились сначала на Coinstelegram.
Bitcoin reserve advocate Sen. Cynthia Lummis provided critical comments on Jerome Powell’s role in Operation Chokepoint 2. 0. Additionally, she echoed Rep. Anna Luna’s allegations concerning Powell’s perjury.