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Millions of people are already part of a global experiment to eradicate cookies once and for all. Since last month, Google has been trialling new browser-based tech in Chrome that could upend the global advertising industry. Most people involved in the trial probably don’t even realize it—but as the project gathers pace, critical voices are raising the alarm.…
Turkish authorities are progressing with an investigation into local cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, which abruptly halted trading last week.
On Thursday, a Turkish court jailed six suspects pending trial, including siblings of the missing CEO and senior company employees, Reuters reported.
As part of the probe, Interpol reportedly issued a red notice for Thodex CEO and founder Faruk Fatih Özer, who had reportedly flown to Albania.…
Alex Dovbnya
The IRS is looking for masterminds who can get access to cryptocurrency wallets
While cryptocurrency holders are moving their coins to secure hardware wallets, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is not asleep at the wheel.
According to a report by VICE, the law enforcement arm of the ferocious tax-collecting government agency is hiring contractors who are able to crack crypto wallets that may be related to investigations.…
Vladislav Sopov
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The South Korean regulator is going to approve crypto ETF in Q2, 2020.
Japanese SBI director shared his surprising views on the prospects of Ripple’s IPO.
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Yuri Molchan
Weiss Ratings believes that in the near future large financial institutions will be focused on Ethereum and that it will keep outperforming Bitcoin
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Weiss Crypto believes in ETH’s bright future
Ethereum tops $2,800 all-time high
The second-biggest cryptocurrency has been doing exceptionally well this year, rising well higher than Bitcoin based on percentages.…
The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and “backdoor every PHP package,” resulting in a supply-chain attack.
Tracked as CVE-2021-29472, the security issue was discovered and reported on April 22 by researchers from SonarSource, following which a hotfix was deployed less than 12 hours later.…
Yuri Molchan
South Korea financial authority to approve the launch of a digital asset fund in early May, here are the details
A South Korean news outlet has reported that the local Financial Supervisory Service intends to greenlight the launch of the financial fund that would enable investors to access exposure to digital assets.…
An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East.
The malicious activity, collectively named “EmissarySoldier,” has been attributed to a threat actor called LuckyMouse, and is said to have happened in 2020 with the goal of obtaining geopolitical insights in the region.…
Vladislav Sopov
Cross-chain bridges developer pNetwork (PNT) added one more platform to its suite of blockchains
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pNetworks (PNT) receives Algorand Foundation grant for new releases
Cross-platform bridges will go live this summer
The pNetwork (PNT) ecosystem will address the problems of interaction between Algorand (ALGO) and other blockchains.…
A previously undocumented Linux malware with backdoor capabilities has managed to stay under the radar for about three years, allowing the threat actor behind to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from infected systems.
Dubbed “RotaJakiro” by researchers from Qihoo 360 NETLAB, the backdoor targets Linux X64 machines, and is so named after the fact that “the family uses rotate encryption and behaves differently for root/non-root accounts when executing.”
The findings come from an analysis of a malware sample it detected on March 25, although early versions appear to have been uploaded to VirusTotal as early as May 2018.…