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Experts from University College London studied smart contracts in the Ethereum network and discovered more than 34 thousand vulnerabilities that provide hackers with the ability to easily hack programs and connect to their control. However, the researchers noted that they are not sure that they have discovered all possible vulnerabilities.
According to Aljazeera, four criminals were detained in the city of Taichung. The attackers lured the owner of 18 BTS to a meeting, at which they forced him to transfer cryptocurrency to a specified address, and then beat him.
Dozens of hackers are trying to find the thieves of cryptocurrency stolen from the Coincheck exchange. While it is unknown who was involved in the theft, white hat hackers played a key role in tracking down the stolen currency. One such hacker, who calls himself JK17 on Twitter, identified the accounts into which money was moved shortly after the theft and then began monitoring those accounts. This information was then passed on to the NEM Foundation, an international group that mana...
Illegal cryptocurrency mining is becoming something of an epidemic. Cybersecurity experts report that the attackers mined cryptocurrency through a Tesla account, which was located on an unsecured Kubernetes IT administrative console.
There are as many cryptocurrencies as there are methods for mining them. Bitcoin, for example, is most profitable to mine using ASIC adapters; Litecoin and Ethereum can be mined through a video card. In some situations, the CPU is most efficient. It is the third group that includes Monero, which often becomes the target of attackers.
Despite the fact that ICOs were banned in China six months ago, fabricating a crowdfunding campaign is not a problem. Copywriters continue to work in the country, who, for a nominal fee of only $600, are ready to provide all the necessary services, including even white paper
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According to Reuters, citing The Register, due to a hacker attack, 4,200 sites in the US and UK were mining the Monero cryptocurrency from user computers. Moreover, some of them belonged to government organizations.
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