(by Massimiliano D'Elia) For some time now large-scale hacker attacks have occurred in the United States which, in some cases, have targeted critical infrastructures causing problems that are difficult to solve immediately and which have demonstrated, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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The popularity of Bitcoin and the emergence of around 1.500 other digital coins or tokens have drawn more hackers into the cryptocurrency cyber, expanding opportunities for crime and fraud, according to cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, in a report on Thursday. Cybercriminals follow the evolution of cryptocurrencies in an unregulated world in [...]
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One of Japan's largest digital currency exchanges reports it has lost around $ 534 million (£ 380 million) of virtual money in a hacking attack on its network. This is Coincheck where deposits and withdrawals have been suspended for all crypto-currencies except Bitcoin as it has evaluated [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday Warren Buffet, the American guru of finance and investments, spoke of his succession at the top of the trading company he has been managing for a lifetime and criticized cryptocurrencies saying that his company would not put them never in your wallet. "I don't know them and that's why I don't [...]
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The Chinese bitcoin giant Bitmain Technologies, in a note to a Swiss newspaper, announced that it is expanding in Switzerland in a series of fundamental operations to expand its presence in the country. Bitmain Switzerland was registered in Zug, Switzerland at the end of December, according to master data filed on Wednesday. The [...]
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A Californian cybersecurity company has found software that installs a code for the Monero cryptocurrency and sends coins to a server at a North Korean university. If so, it is yet another sign that North Korea could be looking for new ways to revitalize its economy, gripped by the [...]
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