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Crybinic-friendly platform Robinhood raised $ 323 million, capitalization rose to $ 7.6 billion

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The operator of the mobile application for trading stocks and cryptocurrency Robinhood company Robinhood Markets Inc. announced the closure of a round of financing for the E Series, which resulted in an impressive $ 323 million. The company's capitalization then rose to $ 7.6 billion. We're happy to announce a $ 323M valuation. This funding will go towards our mission — democratizing […]

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South Korean authorities estimated the damage from crimes in the field of cryptocurrency at $ 2.3 billion

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The damage from crimes committed over the past two years in the field of cryptocurrency, the Ministry of Justice of South Korea estimated at almost 2.7 trillion won ($ 2.3 billion). This is reported by the local edition of The Korea Herald. Thus, in the period from July 2017 to June 2019, 132 criminals were detained and received prison sentences, and another 288 fraudsters suffered an administrative […]

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BBC: secret FSB contractor worked on Tor de-anonymization and looked for vulnerabilities in Bittorrent

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On July 13, unknown hackers broke into the server of the Moscow IT company “Sytek” and posted a so-called “job-face” on its website. It is assumed that hackers deleted 7.5 terabytes of data, but before that they partially copied them. Then they shared them with journalists from several publications. Following the results of familiarization with the archives, the Russian service of the BBC concluded that “Sitek” is a non-public contractor for the Russian special services. Mosquito, […]

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