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Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith has reportedly been denied bail in New York. Currently detained, Griffith is appealing the action. “Griffith was presented yesterday and ordered detained,” James Margolin, the chief public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Southern District of New York, told CryptoX in an email
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Canada-based cryptocurrency mining company Great North Data has submitted a bankruptcy filing, purportedly due to insolvency.As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Dec. 4, Great North Data — which operated crypto mining facilities in Labrador City and Happy Valley-Goose Bay — filed bankruptcy documents in late November, listing CA$13.2
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A new macOS malware has surfaced recently, with low threat detection rate, that digital security researchers think is allegedly created by the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group based in North Korea with a long history of crypto hacking.The malware was disguised on a cryptocurrency trading platform website called ‘unioncrypto.vip’ and
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Security researchers have discovered a new cryptocurrency-related macOS malware believed to be the product of North Korean hackers at the Lazarus Group.As tech-focused publication Bleeping Computer reported on Dec. 4, malware researcher Dinesh Devadoss encountered a malicious software on a website called “unioncrypto.vip,” that advertised a “smart cryptocurrency arbitrage
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Virgil Griffith, a US citizen, a programmer and a cryptocurrency expert, was arrested last week on the grounds of aiding North Korea in violating international sanctions placed on the country.Now, new report indicates that he had previously told his peers about his plans to arrange a shipment of crypto mining
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A new and hard-to-detect macOS malware variant has been discovered lurking on a fake cryptocurrency trading site. Source
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"I always wanted to go there, in North Korea," Pietrosanti told CoinDesk. As a sanctioned country, the place inspires a lot of curiosity for anti-censorship activists like him. "As you always want to fight against control, it's very interesting,” he said. Original Source
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Virgil Griffith, a developer who currently works with the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested upon arrival in the US after speaking at the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference in North Korea in April. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday that Griffith had been
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This time we're talking crypto and traditional market, an ethereum developer in hot water after alleged sanction busting, and a look at this years biggest exchange hacks. Source
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Virgil Griffith, a US citizen and a programmer, has been accused of violating International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”).The accusation comes after Virgil allegedly traveled to North Korea to deliver a presentation about how the country can use cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to move around all the sanctions that have
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