2019: A Happy - and New - Year for crypto-conmen and thieves so far

2019: A Happy - and New - Year for crypto-conmen and thieves so far

The bubbly is unmistakably all around as experts and security -industry players take stock of new crypto-threats and malware attacks gaining steam and ground. Count the bottles of champagne popped and you would know.



Get up and brush the dust away from last year’s attacks. If 2018 was abuzz with cryptocurrency wallets, Salty Spider malware trapping cryptocurrency users (specially Electrum BTC Wallets), BTC ransomware payment demands and crypto-jacking, 2019 is showing starker and stronger intersections between the orbits of cyber threats and cryptocurrency.  As always, the devil lurks in the fine print. But let us skim through the bigger fonts first. They will jump us through the hoops faster. Strap yourself for words like m ...
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