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Paper-cuts are not as serious as snake-bites. We know that. Speaking of security, forks are not as scary as knives. That. We don’t know yet. It was not supposed to happen this way; but then, when does life (and technology) work on suppositions! Humans - genius-clever-brave-rebellious humans - had gathered around the capsule. Some shuffled their feet as the first cut was made. Some cringed and shut their eyes as the needle made its way in and out for a stitch. Some smiled as the body whirred back to life with a new sound. The inimitable and iron-clad creature had just been operated upon. As the surgeons moved out of the room, a few eyes stayed peeled on the creature. Timid and worried, they mumbled to each other. “But wasn’t this sp ... Read more about " Hypochondriacs in a Coal Mine " on coinatory.com

In the darkweb market called Dread, ExploitDOT seller trades the verification data of clients of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges. This hacker has been advertising since July 2018. He claims that he managed to steal the documents necessary for verifying the identity of clients, including identity cards and driver"s licenses, from users of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges - Bittrex, Poloniex, Bitfinex and Binance. The cost of the data is $ 10 per 100 documents, and the "wholesale" buyers are given a discount: if you purchase more than 25,000 documents, the price per 1000 data units is $ 1. An expert on cybersecurity, who wished to stay anonymous, said that he had contacted the seller and received three samples from him ... Read more about " The customers" data of the largest crypto exchanges are sold in darkweb " on coinatory.com

According to reliable information available to Group-IB Threat Intelligence, since the very beginning of the year, the number of hidden mining software offers in Darknet increased in five times. "The use of computer processing power or infrastructure for cryptocurrency mining without the consent or the knowledge of the owner remains, as before, a relatively popular way of enrichment, despite the smooth tendency to reduce the number of incidents associated with this type of fraud," the company emphasized. The company"s message says that ... Read more about " Darknet: the amount of hidden mining software offers increased in five times " on coinatory.com

Cryptocurrency service BitGo announced the addition of support for 57 new assets on Ethereum. Taking into account the growing need for reliable solutions to protect private keys, BitGo decided to expand the offer of its custodial service, a company spokesman said in a conversation with CoinDesk. BitGo was founded in 2013 and has become one of the leading providers of storage services for bitcoins. It works within the framework of the model "security as a service" and uses it"s own innovative technology of multi-signatures to protect ... Read more about " BitGo will add support for 57 Ethereum tokens " on coinatory.com

Nothing spreads faster than FUD. Case in point, a new research paper has sparked panic across the monero community in that it alleges the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency is not so private. Yet, while the findings are genuine, the media aftermath ignores that much of the research in question was originally published in 2017, and the vulnerability it highlights was resolved with monero"s September 2017 hard fork upgrade. Titled "An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain," the 2017 paper, written by Andrew Miller, Malte ... Read more about " Broken Privacy? The Allegations Against Monero Are Old News " on coinatory.com

After Bitmain’s announcement earlier this month of their new ASIC-powered Antminer X3 designed to mine Monero, as well as other cryptocurrencies based on the CryptoNight algorithm, the altcoin’s developers have released an update that will prevent the new device from being effective, according to Monero core developer Riccardo Spagni’s Github post from March 24. The new Monero update, called Lithium Luna, is scheduled for April and states that it “slightly changes the proof-of-work algorithm to prevent DoS attacks by ASICs.” When the Ant ... Read more about " Monero Devs Want To Upgrade Algorithm To Maintain ASIC Resistance " on coinatory.com