February 22, 2020 Bitcoin Cash Faces ‘Slow Death’ After Alleged $30M Hack — Commentator A SIM card attack reportedly sees a total of $45 million stolen, while the consequences for Bitcoin Cash will be severe, warns Dovey Wan. Altcoin Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has become the subject of intense speculation after a major investor claimed he lost $30 million in a wallet hack. In…
February 20, 2020 IOTA Urges Trinity Wallet Users to Use Seed Migration Tool The IOTA Foundation is strongly recommending users of its official wallet to immediately change their passwords. Responsible for one of the top performing cryptocurrencies, IOTA is continuing to release new information in response to a Feb.12…
February 18, 2020 The Law Enforcement’s Guide to Policing Crypto Cybercrimes Partnerships, deanonymization and transaction pattern analysis: What else do international police use to detect crypto cybercriminals? 2019 demonstrated that cyber-attacks are getting more numerous in the cryptocurrency industry, while hardware remains vulnerable and high-profile data leaks are becoming more common.…
February 17, 2020 IOTA Updates Trinity Desktop Wallet to Partly Address Recent Hack Following a hack of IOTA official wallet on Feb. 12, the IOTA Foundation has released what it is calling a safe desktop version of the Trinity wallet. Following an apparent hack of IOTA (MIOTA) official wallet on Feb.…
February 14, 2020 Ledger Reignites Trezor Beef With ‘Dishonest’ Report on Crypto Wallet Hardware Ledger has published a critique of its competitors’ security chips which may have reignited a year old spat with Trezor. Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has reignited an old feud with competitor Trezor, in a blog post dated Feb.…
February 13, 2020 Coinbase Fails to Top CryptoCompare’s Exchange Rankings due to 2019 Flash Crash Coinbase misses the number one spot among platforms on CryptoCompare’s new Exchange Benchmark due to a 2019 Bitcoin price glitch. Coinbase, one of the most popular platforms in the United States, missed out on the number one spot in a ranking of crypto exchanges due to a 2019 Bitcoin (BTC) price glitch.The…
February 12, 2020 Reuters to Provide Fact-Checking for Facebook Amid 2020 US Presidential Elections Major global publication Reuters has established a new unit in partnership with Facebook with the objective of identifying misinformation on social media. In partnership with Facebook, Reuters has established a new unit tasked with identifying misinformation on social media. As…
February 11, 2020 Hacking Group Outlaw Upgrades Malware for Illicit Income Sources: Report Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has detected that hacking group Outlaw has been updating its toolkit to steal enterprise data for nearly half a year at this point. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has detected that hacking group Outlaw has been updating its toolkit for stealing enterprises’ data for nearly half a year at this point.Outlaw…
February 11, 2020 Solving Information Leakage in Off-Exchange Crypto Trading Multiparty computation could solve intentional and unintentional leak of the information, providing better security for crypto trading. Off-exchange liquidity venues have been widely used by institutional investors to keep large trades confidential.…
February 3, 2020 Singapore: Digitized Securities Exchange Gets Regulator’s Go-Ahead Capital markets blockchain platform iSTOX has graduated from Singapore's regulatory sandbox and been approved as a market operator and capital markets services licensee. Capital markets blockchain platform iSTOX has graduated from Singapore's regulatory sandbox and been approved as a recognized market operator and capital markets services licensee.Singapore’s…
February 3, 2020 You Can’t Separate Utility from Security Tokens, Say EU Researchers Researchers writing for the Oxford University Law blog say that the distinction between utility and security tokens is less important than most assume when it comes to regulation. European researchers writing for the Oxford University Faculty of Law blog argue that the distinction between utility and security tokens is less important than most assume when it comes to regulation. In…
January 28, 2020 Wallet Creator Offers $250K to Anyone Who Can Crack the ‘Hack-Proof’ Offline cold storage cryptocurrency wallet provider GK8 is offering a bug bounty of up to $250,000 to the first person who can hack its ostensibly “hack-proof” product. Offline cold storage cryptocurrency wallet service provider GK8 is offering a bug bounty of up to $250,000 to the first person who can hack its product.GK8…
