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In 2017, during the unmoored initial coin offering (ICO) boom, celebrities were paid shills. Remember when Dennis Rodman promoted Potcoin in North Korea and DJ Khaled endorsed Centra’s ICO? This year, celebrities also jumped the bandwagon, but in a somewhat more wholesome way, promoting the emergent world of non-fungible tokens
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The developers of Monero (XMR) recently discovered a bug capable of exposing transactions of its users. Even though the team is working to fix it, they have announced that users’ privacy is at risk as long as the bug remains. The Monero team made this announcement through their official Twitter
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An investigation by Justin Berman, a software developer interested in the “intersection of finance and cryptography,” has discovered a significant bug in Monero’s wallet code. The Bug in Monero’s Wallet Code In a Twitter thread on July 27, Monero developers said the bug impacted the network’s decoy selection algorithm. It, therefore, meant
Read MoreLightning network node operators running LND versions prior to the Oct. 1 version 0.11 upgrade have been urged to upgrade immediately after a vulnerability was discovered affecting LND versions 0.10 and below.The vulnerability was made public in an Oct. 9 announcement from Lightning engineer Conner Fromknecht, Head of Cryptographic Engineering
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A vulnerability in LND versions 0.10.x and below has been disclosed to the Lightning Labs team, according to engineer Conner Fromknecht in the Lightning Network developer channel Thursday. In light of the disclosure, the firm is urging node operators to upgrade to versions 0.11.0 or higher as soon as possible. Source
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ThreatFabric, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity firm specializing in threats to the financial industry, has identified the "Cerberus" Trojan that steals 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) codes generated by the Google Authenticator app for internet banking, email accounts, and cryptocurrency exchanges.US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is one of the crypto platforms listed in Cerberus’
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The use of malware to steal vital information is not a new concept in the world today. However, it seems that this sub-culture of malware producers are constantly sharpening their swords, making them more adapted to survive in the victim’s device.The latest on the book is one malware dubbed InnfiRAT
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Cybercriminals are now exploring new platforms and ways to carry out crypto mining attacks using malicious software (also known as cryptojacking), along with ways to keep the malware undetected.One of such malware attacks has recently been identified by two threat-analysts. Skidmap, a new Linux malware, is not only capable of
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