The American firm CWT, working in the field of corporate tourism, paid a ransom of 414 BTC ($4.5 million) to hackers who encrypted the company’s files and stole important data from it. Attackers used the Ragnar Locker ransomware virus to access CWT servers and computers. They were able to infect more than 30,000 company computers […]
Read MoreChinese technology giant Tencent has announced plans to develop a blockchain – based platform for Changyu, The country’s oldest and largest wine producer. Thanks to the blockchain, Changyu will track every stage of wine production and sale, including the planting of wine vines, growing grapes, winemaking and distribution of finished products. Each bottle of wine […]
Read MoreOn the morning of August 1, the Ethereum Classic network split – 3,693 “extra” blocks were extracted in it. Researchers suggest that this was a 51% attack, but no malicious transactions were detected. The first non-standard situation in the Ethereum Classic blockchain was noticed by the researcher Hudson Jameson, and a little later the attack […]
Read MoreAccording to the founder of Heisenberg Capital, max Kaiser, the bitcoin exchange rate will continue to grow and is unlikely to meet serious resistance to the level of $28,000. Over the past two weeks, the rate of the first cryptocurrency has increased from $9,200 to $12,000, and only this weekend, bitcoin has slightly declined. However, […]
Read MoreIntezer researchers have discovered a new malware that uses the Dogecoin blockchain to deploy attacks on cloud servers and covert cryptocurrency mining. According to Intezer cybersecurity researchers, the new malware is a previously undetected Linux Doki backdoor that uniquely uses the Dogecoin blockchain to hack cloud servers. It is deployed via a botnet called Ngrok. […]
Read MoreRipple claims that the main plaintiff in the case in which the company is accused of securities fraud cannot prove the falsity of brad Garlinghouse’s statements about XRP in 2017. The court document, filed in the district court of Northern California, was attached to the case in which Ripple is accused of not registering XRP […]
Read MoreThe Creator of the Ethereum wallet MyEtherWallet (MEW) believes that the full deployment of Ethereum 2.0 should not be expected until 2022. The founder of MyEtherWallet, Kosala Hemachandra, said in an interview that the zero phase of the update was originally planned for January 2020, but was later postponed to November 4. This will only […]
Read MoreThe President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed the law “On digital of financial assets (CFA) and a digital currency.” It will come into force on January 1, 2021. The law signed by the President is registered under the number 259-FZ. On July 22, the bill was adopted by the state Duma in the third […]
Read MoreThe American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed a list of 19 cryptocurrencies and tokens that may be available for trading in the near future. According to the Coinbase announcement, these include the following crypto assets: Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch.ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera Hashgraph, Kava, Melon, Ocean Protocol, Paxos Gold, Reserve Rights, The […]
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