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North Korea’s Lazarus Target Cryptocurrency Exchanges with ‘AppleJeus’ MacOS Malware

August 25, 2018 0 0

Kaspersky Lab has discovered that the infamous North Korean cybercrime ring Lazarus has been targeting cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech companies and banks under a malware campaign called AppleJeus. The cyber thieves have attempted to steal cryptocurrency using Trojanized cryptocurrency software, according to Computer Weekly. Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team reported Lazarus infiltrated an Asian cryptocurrency exchange. The Kaspersky […]

‘Vicious’ Crypto Fraudster Fined $1.1 Million, Slapped with Lifetime Trading Ban

August 25, 2018 0 0

A cryptocurrency trading firm and its principal have been fined as well as banned from any future trading in digital assets in a case filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In the landmark case targeting Cabbage Tech aka Coin Drop Markets and the firm’s principal, Patrick K. McDonnell, the New York Eastern District […]

Rialto Teams up With Bittrex for Digital Securities Trading Platform

August 24, 2018 0 0

Alternative Trading System (ATS) provider Rialto Trading announced today, Aug. 23, that it is partnering with cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex to create a trading platform for blockchain-based securities, pending regulatory approval. Combining Specializations Rialto, which presently offers its users a regulated ATS for trading fixed income products, is seeking permission from regulators to extend its ATS […]

Nvidia Launches Latest Retail GPU Cards While Playing Down Crypto Revenues

August 24, 2018 0 0

Industry giant Nvidia unveiled its new GeForce RTX™ 2000 series of graphics card this week, within days of making a focused retreat from the crypto mining retail space. The American hardware corporation has introduced three graphics cards in the new series: RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti. The range promises to deliver up […]

Joe Rogan Discusses Ethereum-Based Twitter, in Light of Alex Jones

August 24, 2018 0 0

On the Joe Rogan podcast (JRE podcast), American singer-songwriter Shooter Jennings and Joe Rogan discussed Ethereum-based Twitter alternative Peepeth, which allows anyone to release permanent tweets embedded into the blockchain, without censorship. Throughout the podcast, Rogan and Jennings went back and forth on the Alex Jones situation, sharing the general sentiment that Facebook, YouTube, and […]

Rejected Again: SEC [Predictably] Denies 9 Bitcoin ETF Proposals

August 23, 2018 0 0

The hopes of Bitcoin bulls ate dust once again as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disapproved nine more Bitcoin ETF applications. The US regulator rejected two ETFs by ProShares that would track Bitcoin future contracts, five inversed and leveraged ETFs from Direxion, and another one from GraniteShares. It continued to hold its stance against […]

Market Overreaction? Bitcoin Price Drops 4% as More ETFs Get Rejected

August 23, 2018 0 0

Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has dropped slightly in value, led by the 4 percent decline in the Bitcoin price. Ethereum, Ripple, and Bitcoin Cash fell by 5 percent. The majority of analysts in the space have attributed the recent fall in the Bitcoin price to the rejectionof several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) […]

Norwegian Bitcoin Mining Firm Hit with Bomb Threat Risks Being Shut Down

August 23, 2018 0 0

Barely a week after receiving bomb threats, Kryptovault now has to contend with another threat — forced closure by local authorities. According to the Norwegian edition of The Local, one of the bitcoin mining facilities that Kryptovaultruns in Norway is at risk of being shut down by the local municipality following noise pollution complaints from residents. The residents […]

3 Months Since Korea’s Biggest Cryptocurrency Exchange Raid, What Happened?

August 22, 2018 0 0

It has been three months since UPbit, South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange, was raided by local authorities. Yet, the government has not released a public statement on the investigation. Did the Investigation Find Nothing? Earlier this year, UPbit was raided by local financial authorities under the suspicion of manipulating and inflating its balance sheet. The Korea Financial […]

Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Spikes Near $6,900 as BitMEX Goes Offline

August 22, 2018 0 0

The bitcoin price took a major leap on Wednesday morning, spiking nearly $300 in less than a minute to break out of what had been two days of mostly sideways trading for the flagship cryptocurrency. The incident in question occurred at exactly 1:00 UTC, when BTC leaped from $6,466 to $6,745 during a single one-minute […]