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Specializing in cybersecurity, Symantec has discovered eight applications in the Microsoft Windows Store with a built-in enhanced version of Coinhive, a hidden mining script for the Monero cryptocurrency. Has found 8 apps on the @MicrosoftStore that mine #Monero without the user's knowledge. Details here: https://t.co/gWz9hJIgfA #cryptojacking pic.twitter.com/4BMeh1C7KA – Security Response (@threatintel) February 15, 2019 Note, […]

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, expects before the end of the year to invest in the development of the Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt up to $ 25 million, reports CoinDesk. In the course of the last week's teleconference devoted to the results of the 4th quarter of 2018, ICE Chief Financial Officer Scott Hill said that investment in Bakkt during this fiscal year will be $ 20 million […]