virus A study organized by a team of cybersecurity experts from Guardicore showed that about 50,000 servers worldwide are infected with a virus that targets the hidden mining of the TurtleCoin cryptocurrency (TRTL). For the first time, a cryptodoping virus, which Guardicore representatives called Nansh0u, was discovered in April. It is assumed that in the past four months, attackers managed to infect about 50,000 servers with the virus. It is estimated that every day Nansh0u found about 700 new victims. Crypto-jacking is called malicious mining on users' computers that did not give consent and who, as often happens, are not…
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On Thursday, May 30, the price of Bitcoin overcame the mark of $ 9000, updating the annual maximum, but then a rapid correction began. As a result, the first cryptocurrency lost in the order of 5%, the decline stopped in the region of $ 8,200- $ 8,300. Nevertheless, bears can push the price up to a 30-day MA at $ 7342, says Omkar Godboul, an analyst at CoinDesk Markets. He stressed that […]
Adam Samson, chief editor FastFT in the Financial Times, recently published in the Twitter "schedule FOMO» by Fundstrat, assuming that we are approaching the 10th level Fomo market Bitcoins . Thomas Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat, confirmed that according to the “FOMO present” schedule will start when the BTC rate reaches $ 10,000. As can be seen from the graph, FOMO of the fifth level worked when the price of Bitcoin reached $ 8,350 dollars: Tom Lee claims that the goal of the chart is to show that the “real FOMO” begins when Bitcoin exceeds $ 10,000, as this price was…
On May 30, at around 19:00 Moscow time, the BTC cryptocurrency rate for the first time since May 2018 exceeded the level of $ 9,000. Reaching a new maximum, Bitcoin literally lost $ 400 in just a few minutes. At the BitMEX site, the maximum BTC price indicator was recorded at $ 9,111, at the Coinbase exchange at $ 9,093, at the Binance trading platform at $ 9,074, and at Bitstamp at $ 9,094. So, we can say that over the last week the rate has increased by approximately 14%. Altcoins also showed a slight increase. For example, the rate…
The trade war between the United States and China may eventually spread to the US bond market if China decides to sell off US treasury bills. And it can bring Bitcoin, ethereum, XRP and lightcoin to new highs, Forbes writes. While the trade war between the United States and China is moving from tariffs to technology, Bitcoin is turning into new gold. From the beginning of the year, the digital currency added 132.69%. Altcoins followed suit. Classic gold remains in the flat, and digital grows Apparently, investors, worried about the destructive trade war, are seeking refuge in cryptocurrencies . How…
The Zcash project team presented the Zepio desktop wallet. In Zepio, private ZEC transactions are set by default. The development is expected to bring even more users to the ZEC who wish to remain anonymous and remain secure. Zepio Wallet is available to macOS, Linux and Windows users – with the help of the new product, Zcash holders can store their crypto funds, as well as make transactions, the details of which (sender's address, recipient of funds, amount transferred) are hidden. Zepio is an open source product, the wallet is available not only in the light mode, but it also…
Today, May 30, the price of the first cryptocurrency made a sharp jerk up, rising above the $ 9,000 mark. However, a no less impressive correction occurred soon after. Nevertheless, Bitcoin pulled up and the rest of the market. For example, this was the top 10 ranking of CoinMarketCap against the background of impulse growth: One of the fundamental reasons for such rapid growth is the alleged launch of the largest […]
The Chinese APT grouping injects cryptocurrency miners and rootkits into MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Windows servers around the world. According to specialists from Guardicore Labs, since February 2019, attackers have been able to compromise more than 50,000 servers. The malicious campaign was named Nansh0u. The attackers hack Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers using brute-force, and then infect them with malware. […]
Users have gained access to the test network of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform – a preliminary version of the light client has been published. This simplified version includes only the files needed for compilation, in particular, the RocksDB database and the Abseil library. After assembling and configuring the light client, it connects to the full node of the TON test network. In addition, the site published step by step […]
The IOTA project team, which is engaged in the development of cryptocurrency for the Internet of things, announced that the development of a mechanism for decentralized transaction confirmation has been completed, the project will soon switch to its actual use. Coordicide, an update for the IOTA protocol, will primarily eliminate the centralized coordinator, who is responsible for the validation of the blocks, and will also take part in solving the problem of network scalability. Coordicide will monitor the level of security in the IOTA network, the completeness of transactions, preventing the occurrence of double spending. Note that one of the…