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Fed Vice Chair Brainard defends CBDCs against Republican attacks in first hearing since confirmation
“America can’t be left behind,” said Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, opening a May 26 hearing on a US central bank digital currency. The virtual hearing fea...
Elizabeth Warren Attacks Fidelity for Allowing Crypto Retirement Investing
Fidelity Investments has opened its retirement services to those who love crypto. Fans of digital currencies like bitcoin and Ethereum can now purchase these assets and many others like them through t...
Quantum Attacks — How Big of a Threat Will They Be in the Near Future?
Quantum computing, the stuff of science fiction in many people’s minds, is very real. We are nearing a world where quantum computers will become commonplace, at least in larger organizations and gover...
NFT Artist Beeple’s Twitter Account Hacked as Phishing Attacks Continue to Wreak Havoc
As part of yet another phishing attack, the Twitter account of prominent digital artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, was hacked to promote a crypto scam. “Stay safe out there, anything too g...
WHO calls for probe into Russia attacks on Ukraine health facilities
CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE – MAY 09: A healthcare professional searches for medicines and medical equipment in a destroyed hospital as Russian attacks continue in Chernihiv, Ukraine on May 09, 2022. Pat...
DeFi attacks are on the rise — Will the industry be able to stem the tide?
The decentralized finance (DeFi) industry has lost over a billion dollars to hackers in the past couple of months, and the situation seems to be spiraling out of control. According to the latest stati...
The UK Is Set To Promote Crypto Adoption And Crackdown On Ransomware Attacks Following Queen’s Speech ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     While regulatory uncertainty plagues crypto markets in developed economies, the UK looks set to turn this around. Following the “Queen’s Speech” to k...
Terra Blockchain Temporarily Halted to Protect The Protocol From Attacks
Following the recent headwinds surrounding the Terra ecosystem and its native cryptocurrencies, the blockchain was temporarily halted to protect the ecosystem against malicious attacks. Terra Blockch...
Terra Temporarily Halts Blockchain to Prevent Attacks as LUNA Goes to Zero
In brief Terra validators opted to halt the blockchain network after this week’s collapse of both UST and LUNA. Validators plan to restart the network after applying a patch to avoid potential attacks...
Terra Resumes after Halting Blockchain Production to Prevent Governance Attacks
Terraform Labs, the company which supports the Terra ecosystem, briefly halted the Terra blockchain for two hours on Thursday after a dramatic slump in LUNA and UST, before restarting at around 1:45 p...
Terra Blockchain Halted To ‘Prevent Attacks’ After Luna Token Crashes Nearly 100% Overnight
Topline The platform behind the embattled luna cryptocurrency said Thursday afternoon it had temporarily halted its blockchain to stop transactions after the token’s price plummeted nearly 100% ...
Gensler attacks USDT, USDC, BUSD while Do Kwon takes his ‘razor focus to deliver’
The U.S. SEC Chair Gary Gensler criticized stablecoins and digital asset exchanges for trading against their customers. This criticism comes at a low point for the crypto market which is currently goi...
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Mixer Over North Korean Attacks
Key Takeaways The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned the cryptocurrency mixer Blender. The Treasury said that North Korean hackers used Blender to launder $550...
Fabio Panetta attacks crypto – The Cryptonomist
In a recent speech at Columbia University in New York, Fabio Panetta, a member of the Executive Board of the ECB, expressed all his worst concerns about cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are a new go...
Buffett Blasts Wall Street as a Casino; Munger Attacks Robinhood
Wall Street’s encouragement of investors taking speculative and highly risky moves in their investments have made it more of a “gambling parlor,” Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet...
Most Americans—Even Republicans—Oppose Florida GOP’s Attacks On Disney, Poll Suggests
Topline A bipartisan majority of U.S. adults oppose laws that go after companies for their political positions and the politicians who support them, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, indicating efforts ...
Gnosis Chain Completes Hard Fork to Prevent Further DeFi Reentrancy Attacks – crypto.news
Gnosis Chain (formerly xDai), has completed a security upgrade that will help fortify the Ethereum sidechain against potential DeFi hacks. According to a recent tweet by the protocol’s developers, the...
Gnosis Chain makes key upgrade to prevent potential security attacks
Gnosis Chain has gone through a network upgrade in order to fix the issue that allowed hackers to steal $11 million from two DeFi protocols running on its network last month. “All application builders...
Monero Becomes First Choice Of Ransom Payments: “double extortion” Ransomware Attacks Increases By 500%
CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics firm, has revealed the growing influence of privacy-focused crypto assets such as Monero in the growth of ransomware. The report titled “Current Trends in Ransomwa...
CipherTrace report increased XMR payments for ransomware attacks 1
TL; DR Breakdown CipherTrace reports an increase in XMR payments for ransomware Chainalysis data confirms the CipherTrace report Hackers are dumping BTC for XMR CipherTrace, a blockchain firm in the c...
Monero’s crypto of choice as ransomware ‘double extortion’ attacks increase 500%
A new report by blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace highlights the growing role that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero are playing in the rising tide of ransomware. “Current Trends in ...
Danger In Crypto, U.S. Warn Of Surge In Attacks By Hackers
Several U.S. federal agencies issued a joint warning about an increase in crypto-related hackings. Posted as an alert by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau...