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SHARED INTEL: How digital certificates could supply secure identities for enterprise blockchains

The Last Watchdog

Blockchain gave rise to Bitcoin. But blockchain is much more than just the mechanism behind the cryptocurrency speculation mania. Evidence continues to mount that blockchain technology holds the potential to democratize commerce on a global scale, while at the same time vastly improving privacy and security in the digital age.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 445 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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$280 million stolen per month from crypto transactions

Security Affairs

Having access to mempools allows front-runners to use various techniques to exploit the data of pending transactions in order to jump in with their own trade before they are confirmed on the blockchain, make unsuspecting traders pay more for their transactions, and pocket the profit.

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North Korea-linked TA444 group turns to credential harvesting activity

Security Affairs

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week confirmed that in June 2022 the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group and APT38 stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Blockchain company Harmony Horizon Bridge. ” reads the report published by the researchers. ” continues the report.

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CIPL Publishes Discussion Paper on Digital Assets and Privacy

Hunton Privacy

On January 20, 2023, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth published “Digital Assets and Privacy,” a discussion paper compiling insights from workshops with CIPL member companies that explored the intersection of privacy and digital assets, with a particular focus on blockchain technology.

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Nation-state actors target critical sectors by exploiting the CVE-2021-40539 flaw

Security Affairs

During that window, the actor successfully compromised at least nine global entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy and education industries.” The post Nation-state actors target critical sectors by exploiting the CVE-2021-40539 flaw appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

Security Affairs

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.