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North Korea Employed a Fake Trading Bot on DragonEX Workers
Several reports from various organizations have revealed North Korea’s vested interest in cryptocurrencies and their ability to evade economic sanctions. Now, a new...
SharePoint Bug Proves Popular Weapon for Nation-State Attacks
Thousands of servers could be exposed to SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2019-0604, recently used in cyberattacks against Middle East government targets.Researchers have detected multiple instances...
Report: United Nations withheld news of systems hack in European offices
Officials at the United Nations reportedly discovered last August that hackers had compromised its IT systems in Geneva and Vienna last summer,...
Alleged Launderer of $4B in BTC Vinnik Charged in France After Extradition
French authorities have charged former operator of now-shuttered crypto exchange BTC-e and Russian national Alexander Vinnik.Bloomberg reported on Jan. 28 that Vinnik’s lawyers...
Greece Extradites Alleged Launderer of $4B in BTC Alexander Vinnik to France
Greece’s Council of State ruled for the extradition to France of former operator of now-shuttered crypto exchange BTC-e and Russian national Alexander Vinnik.English-language...
Greece Extradites Alleged Launderer of $4B BTC Alexander Vinnik to France
Greece’s Council of State ruled for the extradition to France of former operator of now-shuttered crypto exchange BTC-e and Russian national Alexander Vinnik.English-language...
UN Secretary-General: US-China Tech Divide Could Cause More Havoc Than the Cold War
WIRED recently spoke with António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, about a topic of increasingly grave concern to him: the fracturing of...
Renewed Emotet phishing activity targets UN, government and military users
Since resuming operations after a holiday hiatus, the malicious actors behind the Emotet banking trojan network have reportedly targeted at least 82...
New Attack Campaigns Suggest Emotet Threat Is Far From Over
Malware described by the DHS as among the worst ever continues to evolve and grow, researchers from Cisco Talos, Cofense, and Check Point...
Ex-Google policy chief dumps on the tech giant for dodging human rights
Google’s ex-head of international relations, Ross LaJeunesse — who clocked up more than a decade working government and policy-related roles for the tech...
Facebook is failing to prevent another human rights tragedy playing out on its platform, report warns
A report by campaign group Avaaz examining how Facebook’s platform is being used to spread hate speech in the Assam region of North East...
North Korea is “Developing its Own Cryptocurrency”
The North Korean government is reportedly working on developing its own cryptocurrency to avoid international sanctions and counter a financial system dominated by the United States and Western Countries. According to a report from VICE, the North Korean government is hosting a second cryptocurrency conference in February of next year, after bringing together “experts with […]
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