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GRAFT announces first instant payment on decentralised payment network
GRAFT (Global Real-time Authorizations and Funds Transfers), a blockchain payment network innovator has announced that it has achieved its first end-to-end instant payment transaction (under 2 seconds) on the GRAFT Network.... more
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Dark Web: $1.1 billion cryptocurrency thefts during past six months
Cryptocurrency. A decade ago, names such as Bitcoin, Dash, Ethereum, and Monero were merely buzzwords. Fast forward to today, and they’ve become as recognisable as the US dollar and the... more
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Government websites hacked to run secret cryptocurrency miner
Thousands of government websites around the world have been hijacked to mine the cryptocurrency Monero. A commonly-used accessibility script was hacked to inject the Coinhive miner into official sites in the US, UK and Australia. One security researcher described it as the biggest attack of its type that he’d seen. In the UK, websites for [...]
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Criminal underworld dropping Bitcoin for other cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin, despite its stratospheric price, is losing its allure with some of its earliest and most avid fans, the criminals, giving rise to a new breed of cryptocurrencies. Privacy coins such as monero, designed to avoid tracking, have climbed faster over the past two months as law enforcers adopt software tools to monitor people using [...]
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Bitcoin thieves are back – CryptoShuffler Trojan hunt for users’ cryptosavings
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware, CryptoShuffler Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Dash, Monero and others. Indeed, criminals have already succeeded with bitcoin wallets, earning almost £105,923 overall, according to [...]
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