February 21, 2019 @ 9:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Australian cloud access security brokerage (CASB) Bitglass has published an article in Security Briefing Australia warning that “cloud resources” have become the most coveted target of hackers pervading cryptocurrency mining malware. “Cloud computing” is essentially the outsourcing of data storage to firms running large data… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

Blockchain, an early Bitcoin wallet startup that has lately expanded its services to include institutional crypto trading services, has announced it is “thrilled” to be opening a fifth location in Vilnius, Lithuania. Blockchain says that after considering “several options,” Vilnius was selected for its, “vibrant… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 7:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

Citing cybercrime as the “biggest threat to digital India,” Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a new national cyber forensic lab and Delhi Police cybercrime unit, ‘CyPAD,’ on Monday, The Hindu reports. According to the outlet, Minister Singh described cybercrime as “a challenge to policing,”… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 7:36 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Gladius Network, LLC, a company that raised $12.7 million dollars via ICO (initial coin offering) in late 2017 to, “develop a network for renting spare computer bandwidth to defend against cyber attacks and enhance delivery speed,” has settled with the SEC after self-reporting its unregistered… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 3:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Rise, a German company marketing a forthcoming initial coin offering (ICO) with a campaign featuring a “democratize prosperity” slogan and a video of a homeless man driving a Lamborghini, has had its “virtual IPO” (ICO) scuttled by Germany’s Federal Supervisory Authority (Bafin), Handelsblatt reports. The… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 3:04 am By Cali Haan  |  

Police in India have arrested four and are seeking a fifth suspect whom they believe used a cryptocurrency scam to steal 1 billion rupees (nearly $14 million) from investors in Mumbai, Surat, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh, Times of India reports. The men, Sanjay Sontakke, 44; Rajnikant Kumavat, 46; Alpesh… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 2:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

30 investors in Thailand who say they were defrauded of 42 million baht ($1.34 million USD) by the owner of a Bitcoin mining scheme formally complained Monday to the Thai Technology Crime Suppression Division, The Bangkok Post reports. Police say a total of 140 investors have now… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 1:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Europol, Interpol and the Basel Institute on Governance will host the 3rd annual Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies in the Hague, Netherlands, March 6th and 7th. This year’s conference will be distinct from previous ones, says Europol, in that focus will be placed on… Read More

February 19, 2019 @ 11:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In addition to its standard warnings about the generalized risks of ICO-investing and advice to interested ICO issuers that they read the SEC’s 2017 21(a) report, the agency’s latest guide to ICOs (initial coin offerings) gets more specific about the “fraud and manipulation” risks posed… Read More

February 19, 2019 @ 6:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Netherlands-based payments news outlet The Paypers has published an interview with an unnamed investigator from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), America’s domestic intelligence and security agency, in which the agent suggested a direct correlation between the number of ERC-20 tokens in circulation and the number of… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 6:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Eight “potentially unwanted applications” (PUAs) identified by cybersecurity researchers at Symantec have been now been removed from the Microsoft Store. The eight fake apps -Fast-search Lite, Battery Optimizer (Tutorials), VPN Browsers+, Downloader for YouTube Videos, Clean Master+ (Tutorials), FastTube, Findoo Browser 2019, and Findoo Mobile… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 5:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Bitblue has received a notice from Bradesco bank stating that the bank will close all Bitblue-associated accounts on February 26th, Portal do Bitcoin reports. Bitblue, for its part, with the assistance of The Brazilian Association of Crypto and Blockchain (ABCB), has asked the… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 4:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Be careful: that romantic email from an unknown suitor could end up grabbing your data. So say cybersecurity researchers at the Mimecast Threat Labs, who warned the public this week that random emails offering gifts, flowers or other friendly gestures may contain infectious links designed… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 1:48 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker that posted 620 million individual’s data for sale earlier this week on the Dark Net marketplace “Dream Market” has now added the private data of an additional 127 million people, including 450 000 users of the Israel-based crypto exchange, Coinmama, TechCrunch reports. The… Read More

February 16, 2019 @ 4:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Due to “challenging conditions” in crypto markets, Argo Blockchain (LSE:ARB), a cryptomining firm that went public in the UK last year, is no longer accepting new customers for its “mining-as-a-service” program (also known as “cloud mining”), and will terminate all contracts as of April 1,… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 3:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

An article by a reporter at Bitcoinist has revealed that 93% of “dApps” (decentralized applications) built to run on the Ethereum crypto network had no transactions on the day they were examined. User rates were slightly better, at 86%, but without transactions, it seems likely… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 1:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

An executive at HSBC has claimed the global bank’s new distributed ledger system for settling Forex trades is 25% more efficient than previous systems, Reuters reports. The system, HSBC FX Everywhere, is reportedly handling 3500-5000 foreign currency trades per day, though HSBC would not confirm what… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 7:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Exchange-traded fund provider Reality Shares has withdrawn its application to have its proposed “Reality Shares Blockforce Global Currency Strategy ETF” approved by the SEC- one day after the request was initially filed, Bitcoin.com reports. According to the “request for withdrawal,” the demand was made at… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 3:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After many were forced out and ruined by floods last year, tenacious crypto miners are nonetheless poised to (re)establish operations in the mountainous Chinese province of Sichuan. They plan to do so just ahead of May to October’s rainy season when the price of electricity… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 11:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Regulators from the Indonesian Commodity Futures Trading Agency, Bappebti, have passed a law requiring individuals and firms brokering cryptocurrency futures products to maintain minimum balances of 1 trillion rupiahs ($71.17 million). According to Reuters, the rule has been implemented, “To encourage trade and protect customers.” The requirement,… Read More