Europol has announced that when it comes to internet-based organized crime, bitcoin is still king, “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin still remains the currency of choice for both legitimate and criminal use,” Europol reported...
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee claims that he knows the true identify of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. But after telling Bloomberg he would expose Nakamoto “within a week,” McAfee said Tuesday (April 23) on Twitter that he was holding off because the controversy it would cause...
HSBC, the U.K. bank, is backing a U.S. startup in the blockchain field called Axoni, Cryptovest reported. The firm plans to put the funds to use by growing its AxCore system, which is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), as well its smart contracting language...
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to cryptojacking and other schemes to mine cryptocurrency, McAfee said in a press release. In fact, the security software company reported that the number of crypto mining malware samples grew by 629 percent in the first quarter of 2018: It saw...
June 16, 2021
Software security firm McAfee discovered a security flaw in the Android operating system powering Peloton Bike+ that could potentially give hackers the ability to spy on riders or steal their personal data, McAfee said in a press release. Sam Quinn and Mark Bereza, both security researchers at the Advanced Threat Research Team at McAfee, said that […]
October 15, 2019
Europol has announced that when it comes to internet-based organized crime, bitcoin is still king, “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero,...
April 25, 2019
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee claims that he knows the true identify of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. But after telling Bloomberg he would expose Nakamoto “within a week,” McAfee said Tuesday...
November 13, 2018
HSBC, the U.K. bank, is backing a U.S. startup in the blockchain field called Axoni, Cryptovest reported. The firm plans to put the funds to use by growing its AxCore...
