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JULY 26, 2022

Michael Stollery Launched an ICO, Advertised Fake Crypto Tokens to Scam Investors Michael Alan Stollery, the chief executive of Titanium Blockchain, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to securities fraud in a scheme involving a fraudulent cryptocurrency initial coin offering in which $21 million was stolen.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In an interview, Rohas Nagpal, a chief architect at Primechain Technologies, describes how blockchain can be used for authentication and pinpoints areas where blockchain is not the ideal technology. He'll be a featured speaker at ISMG's Security Summit in Mumbai Thursday.

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APRIL 3, 2017

The post Records Disrupted: Blockchain as a Transformative Force appeared first on Holly Group. What aren’t everlasting though, are the so-called information governance “technologies” we use to bring these matters to heel. In recent decades, we have cycled through imaging, document […].

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MARCH 1, 2019

But some critics argue that the project seems more like a trendy and unnecessary redressing of a PayPal-like system with a blockchain. Critics Question Whether Move Is Just 'Marketing Fluff' Facebook is edging closer to launching its own cryptocurrency, with a rollout expected this year, The New York Times reports.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Gartner's Avivah Litan on Benefits, Concerns and New Issues to Consider Gartner analyst Avivah Litan says China is attempting to leverage blockchain technology in the country's COVID-19 recovery. What are the benefits and concerns of this approach, and how should it shape the future use of blockchain?

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Since the blockchain is globally accessible and hard to take down, the botnet’s operators appear to be safe. What if someone puts illegal material in the blockchain? That’s how the system works.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Security Experts Praise Desire to Regulate Market, Cite Complexity Sen. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.

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JULY 21, 2022

The Series A Proceeds Will Help Halborn Expand Its Audit and Pen Testing Services Halborn raised $90 million to expand its audit and penetration testing services and more effectively safeguard the crypto industry.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2022

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.”

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Mango Markets is a trading platform riding on the Solana blockchain. 96% of Voting Tokens favor Deal; Mango Markets Will Not Pursue Criminal Charges Decentralized finance exchange Mango Markets is set to pay $47 million as bug bounty to the hacker who stole $117 million in digital assets on Wednesday.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Molly White—of “ Web3 is Going Just Great ” fame— reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own : In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This service is dedicated to individuals that have the need to possess complete privacy on the blockchain, offering a perspective from the opponent’s point of view in order for the user to comprehend the possibility of his/her funds getting flagged down under autocratic illegal charges.”

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Cause of Attack Is Unknown, Moving Funds to Cold Wallets Recommended Hackers are using an unknown exploit to draw down internet-connected wallets on the Solana blockchain. So far, thieves have made off with about $8 million worth of cryptocurrency, predominantly from mobile wallet users of Phantom and Slope.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Akamai Describes How This Approach Works A cryptomining botnet campaign is using bitcoin blockchain transactions to hide command-and-control server addresses and stay under the radar, defeating takedown attempts, according to security firm Akamai.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Platform Attempts to Communicate With Hackers Hackers have breached the blockchain-based Poly Network platform to steal more than $600 million in cryptocurrency, the platform announced Tuesday as it attempted to communicate with the hackers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using new KandyKorn macOS Malware in attacks against blockchain engineers. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware in attacks against blockchain engineers, reported Elastic Security Labs. ” reads the report. ” concludes the report.

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JULY 9, 2024

Private Key and Seed Phrase Compromise Remains Top Attack Vector, TRM Labs Reports Heists perpetrated by cryptocurrency-targeting hackers netted twice as much in stolen proceeds in the first half of 2024 as they did in the first half of 2023, as the overall rise in crypto's value appears to be drawing increased hacker focus, said blockchain intelligence (..)

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Attackers Socially Engineer Digital Asset Holders on Discord Users of OpenSea, a marketplace for blockchain-based digital assets such as crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens, are being targeted by scammers pretending to be the company's support staff on Discord.

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JULY 21, 2022

The company says an open-source vulnerability led to the compromise of its website, resulting in its users losing about $500,000 worth of blockchain assets. Premint NFT Shares $500K Attack Details, Promises Compensation Premint NFT platform users became victims last weejend of one of the biggest NFT attacks ever.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

The Department of Treasury ordered assets of the Ethereum blockchain cryptocurrency mixer to be frozen and says civil and potentially criminal penalties await anyone under U.S. Penalties for Anyone in US Jurisdiction Who Uses the Cryptocurrency Mixer The federal government today sanctioned Tornado Cash. jurisdiction who uses the service.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. “A recent piece of malware from a known crypto mining botnet campaign has started leveraging Bitcoin blockchain transactions in order to hide its backup C2 IP address. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain. Image: Guard.io.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Lazarus Group, APT38 Stole $100M From the Blockchain Bridge in June North Korea's Lazarus Group was behind the $100 million theft from the Horizon blockchain bridge, the U.S. federal government confirmed.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Most people associate blockchain with cryptocurrency, and the buzz around distributed ledger technology continues to make news. But fortunately, entrepreneurs and computer scientists like Ashish Gadnis have demonstrated that you can also use blockchain for the common good.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

BIT Mining fined $10M and the Chinese Communist Party expelled a key blockchain figure Also: Bitfinex Launderer Razzlekhan Gets 18-Month Sentence This week, sentences in FTX, Bitfinex and Helix cases, a $25.5M Thala hack, the WazirX hack and South Korea probed UpBit. lawmakers want a crackdown on Tornado.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

million of the $190 million worth of cryptocurrency drained from cross-chain bridge Nomad on Wednesday, blockchain security firm PeckShield tells ISMG. 3 Crypto Wallets Hold $95M of Stolen Funds; $6M Laundered on Tornado Cash Multiple individuals returned a total of $11.4

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AUGUST 26, 2022

8 for Merge-related Vulnerabilities Ethereum is offering up to $1 million bounty to white hat hackers who identify merge-related critical vulnerabilities on its blockchain. Reward for White Hats Valid till Sept. The four-fold increase in reward will be applicable between Wednesday and Sept. The merge is set to be completed by Sept.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Webs of Criminality Are Recorded on Bitcoin's Blockchain Bitcoin has enabled fast payments to cybercriminals pushing ransomware. How to deal with bitcoin is subject of a spirited debate, with some arguing to restrict it.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Experts Debate Blockchain, Differential Privacy, Crypto Backdoors and More The Cryptographer's Panel, which sees five cryptography experts analyze and debate top trends, remains a highlight of the annual RSA conference.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. Every blockchain uses a consensus protocol which allows all nodes on the network to agree on the current state of the blockchain.

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JULY 21, 2023

Targets Include Blockchain, Crypto, Online Gambling and Cybersecurity Sectors Suspected North Korean hackers who targeted enterprise software firm JumpCloud are likely behind a social engineering campaign targeting the personal GitHub accounts of employees from major technology firms - including those in the cybersecurity sector.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Facebook's Cryptocurrency Folly, Scaling Security and Why Doomsday Is Temporary From blockchains and surveillance to backdoors and GDPR, a group of leading cryptographers rounded up the top cybersecurity and privacy matters of the day at the cryptographers' panel held at the recent RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tomorrow’s Jobs Today is a motivating career guidebook that explores emerging careers in nascent technologies, including Blockchain, AI, and Telematics. Learn about technologies like Blockchain, Big Data, AgTech, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Telematics, Health Information Technology, eDiscovery, and Cybersecurity.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Popular Game Axie Infinity's Blockchain Security Breached Via Hacked Private Keys Ronin Network, which powers the popular NFT game Axie Infinity, announced it was the victim of a security breach that amounted to around $615 million in stolen funds.

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JULY 9, 2022

million hack on the Solana blockchain-powered concentrated liquidity protocol. Audit, Bounty Plan Issued Following $1.7 M Bounty Paid to Hacker For Stolen Funds Crema Finance has published its compensation and recovery plans, following last week's $8.8

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Bad Guys Haul 450 'Bad Guys' NFTs; Rug Pull Finder Buys Back Most Assets Two individuals exploited a flaw in an unaudited smart contract deployed by Rug Pull Finder, a web3 security company that offers smart contract audits to blockchain companies.

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