This Wednesday, May 12, the Anti-Rransomware Day is celebrated. It was established by the cybersecurity company Kaspersky and INTERPOL to raise awareness about the effects of cyberattacks that require the payment of ransoms to people and companies, which coincides with the anniversary of the…
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Digital ruble could contain cybersecurity risks
This Wednesday, the Association of Banks of Russia (ABR) has published its comments about the digital ruble and the risks that the cryptocurrency may have directly related to cybersecurity and fraud.
As specified in the report, the…
Phishing attack and cybersecurity threats have increased
The confinement and spread of teleworking caused by the coronavirus have had major consequences for cybersecurity and only phishing scams and spam have increased more than 6,000 % since March worldwide.
The threats of phishing, together…
Phishing through URLs continues to rise
The confinement by Covid-19 generated an increase in the consumption of streaming platforms, which during the first weekend of the state of alarm increased by 108% in various regions of Europe according to Statista, something that also…
Funds stolen from Bitfinex are used on current trading
It is estimated that at least 119,756 bitcoins that were stolen from the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 are on the move again.
Several alerts issued through Twitter, dated July 27 and 28, indicate that certain wallet addresses…
Twitter scam took just 13 bitcoin
After a day of intense attacks on the Twitter network, scammers willing to violate the privacy of network users managed to get only 13 bitcoin as a reward, as mentioned by Emi Melker in the Tweet of the day.
The hacking of accounts…
Bitcoin manga will debut soon in Japan
The manga-related token called monacoin (MONA) is presumed to have been the first cross between cryptocurrencies and the Japanese manga series, and although it was the subject of conversation at the time, it is now occupied by the bitcoin.…
Zoom detects vulnerability that allows credential theft
The Zoom video conferencing application contains a vulnerability in its version for Windows computers that exposes users to the theft of credentials through the mechanism with which it manages the links for calls.
Specifically, the…
Two Chinese would have stolen $ 250 million according to the Court
A document prepared in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determined that two Chinese citizens would have stolen some 250 million dollars from two exhanges.
According to Seamus Hughes, a member of the Court, the…
Intel will encrypt its next memories
During an event to celebrate the company's Security Day, Intel promised full memory encryption on its next central processing units (CPUs) to protect the hardware from physical attacks.
In such event, held within the framework of the RSA…
Korean group would have created a hack bot
One of North Korea's best-known hacking teams, Lazarus Group, would have carried out several of its attacks through specialized trading bots.
This was reported by the firm Chainalysis, who talked about the DragonEx case, who lost $ 7…
Crimes with cryptocurrencies provoked large expenses in 2019
In the year 2019, the mark left for cryptocurrency crimes was quite large, to the point of representing an expense of $ 11.5 billion as indicated by the Chainanalysis firm.
In the report "Cryptographic Crimes 2020", the group said that…