Tag: Digital Currency
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Crypto founder admits $25 million ICO backed by celebrities was a scam
The Miami-based cryptocurrency firm Centra Tech was built on fairy dust and paid celebrity hoo-ha, but co-founder Robert Joseph Farkas is …
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Trojanized Tor Browser Steals Users’ Digital Currency
Researchers have discovered a Trojanized version of the popular Tor Browser, which has already stolen tens of thousands of dollars’ worth …
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Surrey Police Seize £1m+ in Digital Currency for Government Coffers
Surrey Police has become the first force in the UK to convert Bitcoin to cash after seizing over £1.2m worth of the cryptocurrency from …
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Scammers steal nearly $1 million from Bee Token ICO would-be investors
Another day, another ICO-related scam. In an attack similar to that which fooled investors into the Enigma cryptocurrency investment …
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Keylogger found on thousands of WordPress-based sites, stealing every keypress as you type
A new report from researchers at Sucuri reveals that websites are once again being found infected by cryptomining code – stealing the …
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South Korean Newspaper Reports North Korean Hackers Behind Attacks on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Chosun Ilbo, a major South Korean newspaper, on Saturday reported that according to a South Korean spy agency, North Korean Hackers were …
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How to Spot Fake Digital Currency
Fake Digital Currency With the Bitcoin currency skyrocketing to levels above $8,000 per bitcoin and initial coin offerings emerging on a …
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China Bans Fundraising Through Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
China’s central bank today announced an immediate ban on all ICO—Initial Coin Offering—fundraising, to prevent fraud and illegal fundraising. ICO is the hottest new thing in the blockchain world, which is an alternative to crowdfunding that lets a firm raise funding from multiple sources. Read full news article on The Hacker News
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Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked! Over $1 Million Worth Bitcoin and Ether Stolen
One of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrencies exchanges Bithumb has recently been hacked, resulting in loss of more than $1 Million in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user accounts compromised. Bithumb is South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with 20% of global ether trades, and roughly 10% of the global bitcoin trade is…
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Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked! Over $1 Billion Worth Bitcoin and Ether Stolen
One of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrencies exchanges Bithumb has recently been hacked, resulting in loss of more than $1 Billion in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user accounts compromised. Bithumb is South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange with 20% of global ether trades, and roughly 10% of the global bitcoin trade is…
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Bitcoin Surge And The Future Of Digital Currency Post-WannaCry Ransomware Attack
May 12th marked the start of the ransomware attack on many corporations in a range of different industries, most dramatically on the UK’s health care service, the NHS. After locking more than 200,000 computers worldwide with the WannaCry virus, hackers asked businesses to pay a bitcoin ransom of $300 at first, which then started to…
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