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Hackers compromised five United States law firms and demanded two 100 Bitcoin (BTC) (over $933,000 at press time) ransoms from each firm: one to restore access to the data, one to delete their copy instead of selling it.According to data shared with CryptoX by cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, the hacker
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A compromised version of the Tor browser has targeted Russian-speaking users, spied on them while they were roaming the dark web, and stole their Bitcoin(BTC)trade funds as they were attempting to purchase with BTC on dark web markets.The infected Tor browser reportedly switched the Bitcoin address to which users were
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The US Justice Department has indicted a Singaporean man for impersonating various business personalities, faking the identity of video game developers and exploiting Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in order to mine cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin(BTC)trade, Litecoin (LTC)trade and Ethereum (ETH)trade.It is not the first time that crypto fraudsters
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The United States prosecutors have officially indicted a man from Singapore for using stolen identities to illegally utilize Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing power for crypto mining.According to the indictment initially filed on Oct. 1, Ho Jun Jia was charged with eight counts of wire fraud, four counts of
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A little-known Chinese cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme might be cashing out billions of dollars, which was looted through a scam called “Plus Token” from people from China, Japan and South Korea.Another crypto scam has recently come into the limelight when the venture capitalist Dovey Wan tweeted about Plus Token, a failed
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A major power utility firm in Malaysia, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), has cried out following a huge lose it has recorded in the past months. TNB’s record shows that over $25 million was lost to Bitcoin(BTC)trade miners as of June this year.According to the report, TNB noted that some cryptocurrency
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