Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam (Sophos News)
parisian artist ben elliot introduces the first ever personal cryptocurrency, BET (ben elliot token), which will launch in 2021. directly linked to his career evolution, the market value of elliot’s works will dictate the value of the decentralized currency. …
Cybersecurity researchers from ESET on Thursday said they took down a portion of a malware botnet comprising at least 35,000 compromised Windows systems that attackers were secretly using to mine Monero cryptocurrency.The botnet, named “VictoryGate,” has been…
Last year, Facebook(NASDAQ:FB) assembled a consortium of companies to create an open-source cryptocurrency called Libra. Facebook planned to offer Libra as a payment option in a digital wallet called Calibra, then integrate those payments into Messenger and W…
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Presented by: Raph Levien The GPU in a modern computer (desktop or mobile) has about an order of magnitude more raw general purpose computing throughput than the CPU, but is barely used except for games, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining, largely b…
Microsoft last month applied for a US patent describing a way to use body activity like brain waves as proof-of-work in a cryptocurrency system. One of the ways the Windows giant’s inventors imagine using the technology is to award cryptocurrency when people…
The hacker that stole ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from dForce-based Lendf.Me returns ~$24M through a series of transactions involving different token types (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)
In less than three months, the novel coronavirus (nCOVID -19) transformed from just one of the regular virus outbreaks in recent memories into a global pandemic, threatening to cause severe and drastic changes in the world’s most significant issues as we know…
Hackers steal ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from Lendf.Me decentralized lending platform based on dForce protocol, likely using a well-known Ethereum exploit (Decrypt)
