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On Tuesday Bitcoin price continued the rally of the previous day by retaking $8,000 then pushing above the 200-day moving average for the first time since November 2019. The strong upside move also brought the digital asset above the long-term descending channel which formed on Jun. 25 and outside
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In the cat-and-mouse game between hackers and users, less-lucrative crypto-mining malware fell out of favor this year. While security experts at Kaspersky found that the number of "unique malicious objects" rose by 13.7 percent – led in part by a 187 percent increase in so-called web-skimmer files, malware designed to
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The Finnish Population Register Centre is orchestrating a country-level simulated crypto ransomware cyberattack that will cover more than 200 Finnish cities and municipalities.A local news outlet reported that major cities and public organizations are bracing for the hypothetical attack where the objective will be to teach the participants how to
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Marcus Treacher, a senior executive at blockchain cross-border remittance giant Ripple is seemingly kicking-off a modern “cola war” with their emerging rival Libra, Facebook’s controversial cryptocurrency. Treacher, the head of Ripple’s strategic accounts globally, criticized the so-called Facebook cryptocurrency for being “a walled garden.” The executive stressed that
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The United States Treasury Department announced further sanctions against three North Korean state-sponsored hacker groups, responsible for “North Korea’s malicious cyber activity on critical infrastructure.”Continue to enforce existing U.S. and U.N. sanctions against North KoreaOn Sept. 13, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against North Korean hacking groups,
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Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Andrew Paterson, Principal Technology Adviser, discuss new security risks associated with AI, whereby the personal data of the people who the system was trained on might be revealed by the system itself. This post is part of our ongoing Call for
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North Korea has denied allegations of theft of $2 billion as cited in the United Nations Security Council North Korea sanctions committee.The report claimed that North Korea was using cyber attacks on crypto exchanges and banks to hoard money for its program to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The
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Cybersecurity company McAfee Labs has released its August 2019 threat report, which notes an increase in cryptojacking campaigns and ransomware attacks in Q1 2019.Cryptojacking on the riseMcAfee Labs posted their report on the company’s website on Aug. 28. According to the report, crypto jacking — installing and running a
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