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BRICS Erodes US and EU Hegemony as Nations Seek Sovereignty and Equal Cooperation
15.10.2024
BRICS is undermining the hegemony of Washington and Brussels as nations increasingly seek equal dialogue and cooperation that prioritize their own interests, according to Russia’s State Duma speaker. He stressed that countries are moving away from serving the U.S. and its allies, instead...
Maryland Police Warn Gmail Users of Phishing Scam Demanding Bitcoin
20.9.2024
Maryland State Police have warned of a scam targeting Gmail users, using phishing tactics to extort money through unsettling threats. Scammers are sending victims emails with Google Maps photos of their homes and demanding bitcoin payments, falsely claiming they possess incriminating evidence....
Westlake Police Issue Alert on Blackmail Scams Involving Bitcoin
8.9.2024
Westlake Police are cautioning residents about a rise in blackmail scam emails. Scammers claim they have been monitoring recipients’ online activities and demand payment, typically in bitcoin or gift cards, to prevent exposing personal internet habits. These emails may appear highly...
Elon Musk tells advertisers trying to 'blackmail' X — ‘Go fuck yourself’
30.11.2023
The billionaire X (Twitter) owner lashed out at advertisers who are ditching the platform due to his controversial posts
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Calls 2023’s Banking Fiasco a ‘Mini Crisis’, Foresees Consumer Savings Depleted by Year’s End
15.7.2023
Four days ago, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was interviewed by The Economist and he discussed the recent U.S. banking disaster that occurred last March. At that time, the public witnessed the second, third, and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history. Dimon asserted that “for the most part,”...
Cuban President: Ditching US Dollar Frees Countries From Sanctions and Aggression
3.6.2023
Cuba’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, says the U.S. dollar’s global reserve currency status enables the United States to pursue an “aggressive hegemonistic policy of building walls, imposing punitive sanctions, blackmail, aggression, and slander.” He added that the BRICS economic bloc...
League of Legends Source Code Hacked, Riot Refuses To Pay Blackmail
24.1.2023
On Tuesday, Riot Games announced that the source code for both League of Legends and Team Fight Tactics was stolen, and that it would not be paying the ransom demanded by hackers to get it back. It’s the latest in a spree of data breaches at big game companies, and means both games could...
Today in Crypto: Hackers Blackmail Automaker for $2M in Bitcoin, Paxful Kicks Out Ethereum, Uniswap Partners with MoonPay for Bank Card Crypto Purchase
21.12.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.__________...
Read More: Today in Crypto: Hackers Blackmail Automaker for $2M in Bitcoin, Paxful Kicks Out Ethereum, Uniswap Partners with MoonPay...
Police in Kazakhstan Arrest Gang Forcing IT Specialists to Run Crypto Farms
7.8.2022
Law enforcement in Kazakhstan detained members of a crime group suspected of forcing IT experts into operating underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining with threats and blackmail. The racketeers allegedly made up to half a million U.S. dollars a month from their business. Kazakhstan Busts...
Hackers Ask Vice To Blackmail EA Games For Them
15.7.2021
Last month, hackers stole sensitive information from FIFA and Battlefield 2042 publisher Electronic Arts, including source code for the company’s proprietary Frostbite game development engine. Now, the hackers appear to be dumping pieces online to pressure EA into paying them off, according to...
Fake Gov't Officials Blackmail People to Put Money in 'Bitcoin Machine'
20.6.2020
The local police department in a Canadian town is sounding the alarm over a bitcoin (BTC)-related scam that sees criminals impersonate government officials and call unsuspecting residents to tell them to deposit money into a “bitcoin machine.”
The scam, first reported by local news outlet...
Researcher Refutes ‘Blackmail’ Theory Behind Mysterious Ether Transactions
16.6.2020
The abnormal transaction fees from last week may not be blackmail after all, according to Alex Manuskin, a blockchain researcher at wallet company ZenGo
Ethermine Mining Pool Cashes in Its $2.6 Million Ethereum Fee Windfall
16.6.2020
Ethermine will now proceed to distribute its $2.6 million bonanza from a series of bizarre ethereum transactions last week after the fund’s owner failed to make a valid claim. On June 11, the miner, a unit of Bitfly, received the record fee in a transaction involving just 350 ether (ETH),...
Blackmail is Behind Multi-Million ETH Transfer Fees, Say Researchers
13.6.2020
Researchers have concluded that the recent Ether transfers that spent over $5 million in gas fees are the result of hackers trying to extort a compromised exchange
Ethereum’s $5.2 Million Fee Scandal Explained: Exchange Held to Ransom by Hackers
13.6.2020
Hackers are holding an unnamed crypto exchange to ransom after an alleged cyber-attack forced the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate two separate transactions at a cost of $5.2 million in fees, new information suggests. The hackers may have gained access to the exchange’s funds but failed...
Vitalik Buterin Comments on Strange Transaction Fees
12.6.2020
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says recent high fees could be blackmail
Bitcoin Email Scams 2020: Threatening Blackmail Tactics Used to Demand BTC
24.4.2020
The number of bitcoin email scams has been growing in 2020 and the authorities in several countries have warned of new blackmail tactics used in threatening email scams asking for bitcoin. As the world scrambles to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, email scams are taking...
UK Police Reports 562 Cases of Bitcoin-Related Blackmail Over Last Two Years
19.3.2020
New reports show 562 accounts of Bitcoin blackmail over 2018 and 2019