Here you will find all the articles with the tag: cryptocurrency.
On Monday, Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, said that Bitcoin is on the verge of gaining wider acceptance and use. The comments by the eccentric CEO came after he used #bitcoin on his Twitter profile page. That decision alone made the cryptocurrency rise by 14% on Friday. Musk also commented on the ... Read more
3 years ago
The The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Ripple of selling unregistered securities. Binance US decided to suspend all XRP trading on its platform, according to a report making it the 14th exchange to do so after Ripple got hit with a lawsuit by the US SEC commission for sellin... Read more
3 years ago
John McAfee, known for creating McAfee, the antivirus company, was arrested in Spain today and is facing extradition to the United States. He is going to be charged for fraud and tax evasion. The SEC says McAfee was paid more than $23.1 million in cryptocurrency assets to promote ICO token sales... Read more
4 years ago
A new botnet called Prometei is targeting the cryptocurrency Monero. According to Cisco Talos researchers, Prometei is designed to brute force into as many devices as possible, and mine Monero (XRM) cryptocurrency on behalf of its operators. Prometei has been active since March and uses a mix of... Read more
4 years ago
Twitter accounts of a large group of celebrities were hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. Among the victims were Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and presidential candidate Joe Biden. Not only celebrities fell victim to these hacks, but accounts of large companies such as Apple and... Read more
4 years ago
Google has removed 49 Chrome extensions from the Web Store that posed as legitimate wallet apps for cryptocurrency. The extensions contained malicious code that stole private keys from crypto wallets and other secrets from unsuspecting users. The Chrome extensions mimic wallet apps such as Ledge... Read more
4 years ago
Over ten thousand dollars per Bitcoin was the cryptocurrency exchange rate last weekend. Today, the rate dropped slightly to 9857 dollars per Bitcoin, but on Sunday, the crypto currency reached its highest rate since September 2019. All thanks to the corona virus in China. Due to the corona viru... Read more
4 years ago
According to researchers, an extension for Google Chrome that should make it easier for owners of multiple crypto-wallets to manage them, turns out to run off with those keys. In a twitter post, Harry Denley, security director at MyCrypto, states that an app called Shitcoin Wallet can be dangero... Read more
4 years ago
A mining malware previously only seen on Arm-controlled Internet or Things (IoT) devices has made the switch to Intel systems. That's what security investigator Larry Cashdollar of Akamai discovered. Cashdollar states that one of its honeypot systems has recently discovered an IoT malware that seems... Read more
5 years ago
Binance, one of the largest crypto-currency exchanges in the world, launches a new developer platform. The platform should lead to new blockchain innovations, preferably focusing on already existing Binance platforms. The new developer platform will be called Binance X. This will include a hub where... Read more
5 years ago
