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Almost 5% of Monero coins hackers mined with malware

Monero, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies among criminals is mined using malicious mining programs. A study by...

US sanctions against Iranian Bitcoin addresses: an important precedent

Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a structure within the US Treasury, added two Bitcoin addresses to the sanctions list (the...

Charlie Lee is interested in Monero

In a recent interview, the developer of Litecoin noted that one of the most interesting cryptocurrencies for him is Monero (XMR). Monero (XMR): an interesting...

Disappointed by crypto jacking, hackers returned to ransomware

Malwarebytes experts believe that the ransomware became the favourite method of crypto hackers once again, although in the recent past they preferred crypto jacking. Experts...

Monero: 0.13.0 “Beryllium Bullet” Release

October 18th is the date for Monero update. The update is planned and happens twice a year for this coin. What to expect from...

Shares of criminal and legal use of bitcoin swapped places

According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, in 2013, 90% of all bitcoin use cases were tied to criminal activity, whereas now 90% are...

The Monero Malware Response

Monero developers announced the creation of a working group aimed at combating hidden mining and malware - Malware Response Workgroup. As part of the initiative,...

Sia: ASIC wars, bricking the Bitmain and Innosilicon ASICs

Here goes another chapter of ASIC wars. This time, Sia is under attack and is striking back with the v1.3.6 hardfork. This hardfork will reset Sia's Proof-of-Work...

Monero: new challenges

The study showed that the Monero transactions, despite their intricacies, cannot be called completely anonymous. The specialists managed to establish the regularity by which...