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Regulatory Attention and Fraudsters: Bad Crypto News of the Week

26.7.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Near $9,600 as Gold Hits High, Uniswap Liquidity Over $100m

24.7.2020
Bitcoin is up for the week, gold gets a new high and DeFi keeps growing

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Stay Above $9,400 While Dai Supply Skyrockets

22.7.2020
Low volume and volatility continue to plague the bitcoin market but the supply of dai soars

Newly Discovered Botnet Infected Up to 5,000 Computers with a Monero Miner

22.7.2020
Cisco researchers estimate the botnet may have earned its owner $5,000 worth of monero since it started operation four months ago

Watch Out for This Cryptojacking Botnet That Steals Data From Its Victims

22.7.2020
Cisco Systems says a new botnet mines Monero and steals data from the victims

Telecom Argentina S.A Hit by Major Ransomware Attack, Criminals Demand $7.5M Worth of Monero

21.7.2020
Telecom Argentina S.A has been hit by a ransomware attack and the cyber-criminals are demanding $7.5 million paid in the privacy coin monero. The Spanish language site, elperiodista.com quotes anonymous employees stating that the attack started last Wednesday. Initially thought to be a small...

Amir Taaki Knocks Bitcoin Coinjoin Schemes – Calls Methods ‘Absolute Garbage’

21.7.2020
On July 17, the well known Dark Wallet creator and early Bitcoin developer, Amir Taaki, criticized bitcoin privacy methods on Twitter. Taaki claimed that UTXO mixing concepts like Coinjoin were “absolute garbage.” Taaki also knocked other concepts like Mimblewimble and privacy-centric...

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Clings to $9,200 While Ethereum Transactions Soar

20.7.2020
Bitcoin trades flat in July, leading investors to mull other cryptocurrencies

Argentine Telecom Hackers Demanded $7.5 Million in Crypto as Ransom

20.7.2020
Argentina’s leading telecommunications company fought off a cyberattack on Saturday where hackers demanded a hefty ransom in monero to release keys that would allow infected computers back into the system

Major Argentine Telecom Falls Victim to $7.5M Monero Ransomware Attack

20.7.2020
Argentina's largest telecommunications company has fallen victim to a $7.5M ransomware attack

142 Million Guests: Hackers Attempt to Sell MGM Grand Data Dump for Cryptocurrency

20.7.2020
Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin. The hackers claim...

Hackers Hack Telecom Argentina, Demand USD 7.5 Million In Monero

20.7.2020
Telecom S.A., the largest telecommunications company in Argentina, has suffered a ransomware attack as hackers demand USD 7.5 million in privacy coin Monero (109,345 XMR) to be paid until the night of Tuesday, July 21. If the company does not meet the deadline, the payable amount will rise to...

The Covid-19 Crisis Fueled Darknet Markets – A Patron’s Biggest Concern Is Mail Disruption

19.7.2020
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak swept the globe, darknet markets (DNM) have grown exponentially and the lockdowns worldwide are prompting first-time DNM buyers. Currently, the largest DNM on the invisible web is the marketplace Empire, and the only thing impeding the rush of DNM sales these...

A Hacker is Attempting to Sell a Las Vegas Hotel Database for Crypto

14.7.2020
Data for 142 million hotel guests is being sold via the dark web

‘Bitcoin Is Not a Privacy Coin’ Says Crypto Evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos

9.7.2020
Andreas Antonopoulos discussed how he desired to see Bitcoin have more “privacy features” in a recent live stream Q&A session published on Youtube on July 7. Antonopoulos discussed the privacy-centric coin monero and concepts like stealth addresses and ring signatures. Every once...