One of the contenders for the post of governor of the Odessa region, Ukraine, Maxim Kutsyi declared cryptocurrencies totaling about $ 4.2 million at the exchange rate at the time of writing. In the “Cash Assets” column, Kutsyi indicated 290 MTC (about $ 2.3 million) and 11,071 Ethereum (about $ 1.9 million). According to the local newspaper "Duma", the office of the President of Ukraine is preparing to approve the entrepreneur for the post […]
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La corporación Apple no tiene planes de crear una moneda digital, dijo Tim Cook, CEO de Apple. En una entrevista con representantes de la publicación francesa Les Echos, Tim Cook dijo que la compañía no planea lanzar criptomonedas ni ningún token. Él cree que el cuidado de la moneda es la misión principal de cualquier gobierno; a Cook no le gusta la idea de que algún grupo privado cree su propio dinero. Según él, las empresas no deben buscar el poder de esta manera. Al mismo tiempo, el gigante de Facebook es de una opinión diferente. El proyecto criptográfico Libra,…
The cybersecurity company Prevailion found that the tools for cryptocurrency investors targeted a large-scale phishing attack MasterMana Botnet cost only $ 160. MasterMana Botnet massively sends emails on behalf of existing companies with an infected file. As soon as the victim opens it, a chain of actions is launched that complicates the detection of the virus. As a result, a fileless backdoor is installed on the computer to receive the remote […]
Indian cyber police have lost access to $ 1.2 million from the sale of confiscated bitcoins due to blocking accounts by the country's Reserve Bank (RBI). According to The Times of India, law enforcement officers in Pune last year seized 244 MTCs during an investigation into the cryptocurrency pyramid GainBitcoin. The police hired Discidium Internet to convert cryptocurrencies to rupees. Subsequently, law enforcement officers tried to translate […]
MakerDAO developers fixed a critical vulnerability that could lead to the loss of more than 10% of the total collateral funds of users of the DAI token, reports CoinDesk. The user HackerOne under the nickname lucash-dev found an error in the planned update of the Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) system during the testing phase. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to steal the entire security, which is at the liquidation stage in MCD, in one transaction. According to lucash-dev, an opportunity for […]
El lanzamiento completo de Telegram Open Network se realizará a tiempo. La compañía informó a los inversores sobre esto en un boletín reciente, agregando algunos detalles. Según la carta, la red central TON se lanzará a finales de este mes. Ese octubre es crucial para el proyecto: si Durov no tuviera tiempo para lanzar el proyecto, los inversores tendrían todo el derecho de exigir la devolución de su dinero. Muchos ya han comenzado a dudar de que una cadena de bloques tan avanzada pueda completarse en ese momento, pero ahora estas dudas desaparecen. Además de confirmar la fecha de lanzamiento,…
Vanguard Group está probando una plataforma blockchain que permitirá a las empresas de gestión de activos intercambiar criptomonedas, evitando la interacción con grandes bancos de inversión. Vanguard Group, una corporación de inversión estadounidense, ha estado trabajando con la tecnología blockchain durante más de dos meses, y varias transacciones ya se han completado como parte de las pruebas. Se estima que si se logra el éxito en el mercado de divisas con una facturación diaria de $ 6 billones, pueden ocurrir cambios significativos: Vanguard podrá superar a grandes empresas como JPMorgan Chase y Deutsche Bank AG que han sido líderes en…
Armenian law enforcement authorities suspect a 22-year-old citizen of stealing $ 1,046,000 from the sale of equipment for cryptocurrency mining. In October last year, the suspect met with a potential buyer and offered him to purchase the Z9 mini ASIC miner, the News-Armenia news agency reported citing the Investigative Committee. Due to the lack of space for installing the equipment, the buyer agreed to temporarily leave the miner to the seller. Last […]
Representatives of the payment company PayPal did not attend a meeting with members of the Libra Association in Washington, where they discussed a strategy for cooperation with regulators amid fierce criticism of the project. PayPal on the verge of quitting Facebook's Libra project https://t.co/JJps99kJmt – Financial Times (@FT) October 3, 2019 According to the Financial Times, only PayPal was not present at the meeting, although it was previously reported, […]
Avast researchers have discovered a banking virus that has infected more than 800 thousand Android devices of Russian users. According to preliminary data, attackers could control millions of rubles in the bank accounts of Russians. The virus called Geost has been operating since 2016 and represents a complex infrastructure of infected smartphones. Attackers edit the code of applications from Google Play, and then upload to third-party stores for […]