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How Can You Tell if a Cryptocurrency is Legitimate? Read Our Guide To Find Out

IT Security Guru

In recent years, the cryptocurrency industry has seen an explosion in popularity. Despite this, cryptocurrencies remain volatile, with even the big hitters like Bitcoin seeing wild spikes in value over short periods of time. Marketing plays a big part in the cryptocurrency industry. Check the Whitepaper.

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Malicious Actors Hijacked Bitcoin.org

Heimadal Security

Bitcoin.org is an information portal for the top cryptocurrency, founded in August 2008 by Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto, containing information on Bitcoin, including the original whitepaper and developer documentation. Bitcoin.org was hijacked by hackers and got altered in order to push a scam.

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Protecting Your Cryptocurrency from Cyber Attacks

Responsible Cyber

Introduction Cryptocurrency represents a groundbreaking innovation in the financial sector, offering decentralized, peer-to-peer digital transactions through blockchain technology. However, the allure of these digital assets also attracts malicious actors, making cryptocurrency security paramount.

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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. The more times the tampered image was used to spawn new instances, the more “productive” it would be for attackers, as each new workload would start mining cryptocurrency.

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Cannabis investment scam JuicyFields ends in 9 arrests

Malwarebytes

From a JuicyFields whitepaper: “21 states in the US have already legalised the adult use of marijuana for recreational purposes and this number continues to grow. Indeed, the U.S., Canada, and the soon-to-be regulated markets of the European Union are spearheading this revolution with unprecedented swiftness. Million in total.

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From a tech explosion to accidental cyberattacks, researchers offer a glimpse into 2030

SC Magazine

The researchers presented Monday afternoon at the RSA Conference, to tease a soon-to-be-released whitepaper of their work. A switch to digital currency without anonymity would leverage some of the strengths of cryptocurrency, but likely change the fabric of privacy and crime.

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Smart Investment into Decentralized Economy

Spinone

Unlike IPO project owners (very often they are technology startups) don’t sell equity, they are offering either cryptocurrency or a token that represents the blockchain-based project to the public across the world. Fundraising through a token sale is indisputably advantageous because it is straightforward, faster, and less bureaucratic.