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The Fed won’t follow the lead of China’s central bank by banning cryptocurrencies, according to Chairman Jerome Powell
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has made it clear that there are no plans for a China-style crackdown on cryptocurrencies during a Thursday hearing held by the House Committee on Financial Services.…
DeAnna Marie Stinson used a website on the dark web that claims to offer murder-for-hire services, authorities say.
A 50-year-old accountant from Tampa has been arrested after authorities say she tried to arrange a hit on the spouse of her former lover on the dark web, according to federal authorities.…
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Iran has removed a four-month ban on Bitcoin mining
The Iranian government has lifted a temporary ban on Bitcoin mining that was imposed back in May, Iran International reports.
As reported by U.Today, ex-President Hassan Rouhani announced the four-month moratorium on the energy-guzzling process back in May.…
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A French politician wants to make the current taxation around cryptocurrencies much simpler
French politician Pierre Person has laid out his plan for simplifying cryptocurrency taxes in France.
Paying for goods or services with crypto usually constitutes a tax obligation since digital assets have to be converted into fiat currencies.…
For multiple suspects, the FBI eventually gathered a wide set of Google data, including recovery numbers and emails, and dates on which the accounts were created and last accessed. Some court filings even note that FBI agents could see a field called “User Deleted Locations,” although its meaning was not explained.…
Russian authorities on Wednesday arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the founder of cybersecurity firm Group-IB, for two months in Moscow on charges of state treason following a search of its office on September 28.
The Russian company, which is headquartered in Singapore, confirmed the development but noted the “reason for the search was not yet clear,” adding “The decentralized infrastructure of Group-IB allows us to keep our customer’s data safe, maintain business operations and work without interruption across our offices in Russia and around the world.”
Group IB said the raids at its Moscow office had commenced on Tuesday, with law enforcement authorities leaving that same evening.…
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a previously undocumented backdoor likely designed and developed by the Nobelium advanced persistent threat (APT) behind last year’s SolarWinds supply chain attack, joining the threat actor’s ever-expanding arsenal of hacking tools.
Moscow-headquartered firm Kaspersky codenamed the malware “Tomiris,” calling out its similarities to another second-stage malware used during the campaign, SUNSHUTTLE (aka GoldMax), targeting the IT management software provider’s Orion platform.…
The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months.
Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often underestimating novel and cloud-specific security or privacy issues.…
Professional developers want to embrace DevSecOps and write secure code, but their organizations need to support this seachange if they want that effort to grow.
The cyber threat landscape is becoming more complex by the day. Attackers are constantly scanning networks for vulnerable applications, programs, cloud instances, and the latest flavor of the month is APIs, widely considered an easy win thanks to their often lax security controls.…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an unpatched security vulnerability in the protocol used by Microsoft Azure Active Directory that potential adversaries could abuse to stage undetected brute-force attacks.
“This flaw allows threat actors to perform single-factor brute-force attacks against Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) without generating sign-in events in the targeted organization’s tenant,” researchers from Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said in a report published on Wednesday.…
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