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Yuri Molchan
Large crypto holders continue to accumulate Bitcoin, grabbing almost 2 million BTC since 2017, a report says
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60K BTC added in past two months, 1.7 million BTC bought since 2017
Bitcoin social dominance plunges
As reported by popular on-chain data vendor Santiment, large Bitcoin holders—widely known as whales in the crypto space—continue to accumulate the flagship cryptocurrency.…
Alex Dovbnya
Reaching mainstream has been the ultimate goal of the Bitcoin community, but increasing the correlation with traditional assets is an ugly downside
While the idea of reaching mainstream adoption has always been enticing for the cryptocurrency community, it has some downsides.…
Yuri Molchan
Prominent Bitcoin hater shares details of why politicians are not afraid to receive their paychecks in BTC
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“They lose only if they HODL”
Schiff expects BTC flash crash once $30,000 is passed, but nobody’s selling
A major Bitcoin opponent who tweets about BTC more often than some of the biggest Bitcoin supporters, Peter Schiff, has taken to Twitter to explain how politicians and top athletes have insured themselves against losing money when receiving salaries in Bitcoin after its plunge.…
Taiwanese company QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and routers against a new ransomware variant called DeadBolt.
“DeadBolt has been widely targeting all NAS exposed to the Internet without any protection and encrypting users’ data for Bitcoin ransom,” the company said.…
Microsoft this week revealed that it had fended off a record number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its customers in 2021, three of which surpassed 2.4 terabit per second (Tbps).
One of the DDoS attacks took place in November, targeting an unnamed Azure customer in Asia and lasted a total of 15 minutes.…
A cyberespionage group with ties to North Korea has resurfaced with a stealthier variant of its remote access trojan called Konni to attack political institutions located in Russia and South Korea.
“The authors are constantly making code improvements,” Malwarebytes researcher Roberto Santos said.…
The notorious Lazarus Group actor has been observed mounting a new campaign that makes use of the Windows Update service to execute its malicious payload, expanding the arsenal of living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques leveraged by the APT group to further its objectives.…
2021 was a year peppered by cyberattacks, with numerous data breaches happening. Not only that, but ransomware has also become a prominent player in the hackers’ world.
Now, more than ever, it’s important for enterprises to step up cybersecurity measures. They can do this through several pieces of technology, such as an open-source security platform like Wazuh.…
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices on a victim’s network to further propagate spam emails and widen the infection pool.
The tech giant said the attacks manifested through accounts that were not secured using multi-factor authentication (MFA), thereby making it possible for the adversary to take advantage of the target’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy and introduce their own rogue devices using the pilfered credentials.…
Alex Dovbnya
The Tesla stock is up 6% over the past 24 hours
At the end of December, the value of Tesla’s Bitcoin holdings stood at $1.26 billion, according to the e-car manufacturer’s Q4 earnings report.
The Elon Musk-helmed company has neither sold nor bought more Bitcoin during the previous quarter.…