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A crypto mining botnet called Lemon Duck is spreading through Windows 10 computers, infecting users through fake Covid-19 emails. 1892 Total views 16 Total shares Since the end of August, cybersecurity researchers have identified increased activity on a crypto mining botnet called “Lemon Duck”.The botnet has been around since December 2018, however a big jump…

America’s securities chief has crypto regulatory ambitions beyond ETFs and token offerings and includes markets like lending and DeFi. 771 Total views 30 Total shares Gary Gensler, chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is reportedly keen on bright-line regulations for the country’s crypto space.Gensler expressed the SEC’s desire to install safeguards…

The proposed new industry guidelines are intended to address issues around AML and CFT rules. 246 Total views 2 Total shares The European Union’s banking regulator, the European Banking Authority (EBA), wants to update existing Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) rules for crypto providers. In a consultation paper published on Nov. 24

Two national securities bodies in Canada have issued a joint consultation paper on March 14, aiming to gather industry feedback about cryptocurrency token regulation.In a summary press release about the paper, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) said it was necessary to adapt existing laws in order to…

Amid increasing distrust of custodial solutions and recent upgrades to Bitcoin Core, more Bitcoiners are starting to run their own nodes. 446 Total views 5 Total shares The number of Bitcoin nodes is at an all-time high, with 11,558 reachable nodes currently active, according to Bitnodes.io. Another Bitcoin network statistics tracker, coin.dance, calculates the total…

Mt. Gox transferred 37,477 BTC to a new wallet, while data shows that 40% of creditor repayments have now been distributed.

Chainalysis’ Operation Spincaster found over 2,000 Australian-owned crypto wallets were hit by “approval phishing” scams.

The serial entrepreneur who founded the Mt. Gox crypto exchange and co-founded Ripple has shared new details about his ambitious space station company Vast, which he hopes will help expand the human race into a multi-planetary species. In a March 20 interview with Bloomberg, Jed McCaleb confirmed that Vast is on track to launch Haven-1