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European Commission: "To fight organized crime, you need to track cryptocurrencies" – Bits Media
According to the report of the European Commission, organized crime is increasingly using new technologies for their activities, including digital currencies.
The report highlights, that for the fight against organized crime, law enforcement agencies
Ex-head of the CIA: “It's easier to track bitcoins, than cash " – Bits Media
Former CIA chief Michael Morell said, that governments should use blockchain to track illegal activity.
Michael Morell (Michael Morell) described as exaggerated the opinion of regulators that, that bitcoin is being used by criminals
The hackers demanded $50 million in BTC from the pharmaceutical company Pierre Fabre – Bits Media
Pierre Fabre, a large French pharmaceutical company, is attacked by the REvil ransomware virus, and most of the production was stopped. Hackers demand $50 million in bitcoins for decrypting data.
Pierre Fabre is the second largest pharmacological
New Cring Ransomware Virus Attacks Fortinet VPN Gateways – Bits Media
Kaspersky Lab specialists have published a report on the new ransomware Cring, whose operators exploit a vulnerability in older versions of Fortinet VPN gateways.
Cring operators exploit CME-2018-13379 vulnerability in Fortinet SSL VPN devices to gain access to
UK fears rise in cryptocurrency fraud due to Bitcoin's popularity – Bits Media
Royal Attorney Service of Great Britain (CPS) expects, that due to the rise in the bitcoin rate, the volume of cryptocurrency fraud in the country will increase sharply.
The Office recognized, what today 86% reported cases of fraud associated with
DNS Handshake protocol developers soft fork to eliminate inflation error in code – Bits Media
Decentralized Domain Name Server Project Developers (DNS) Handshake recently fixed a bug, which could lead to an increase in the supply of cryptoasset HNS.
According to the article on the developers of Handshake, The project team eliminated an error in the code
DeFi Force Project Lost Crypto Assets On $376 000 due to a vulnerability in a smart contract – Bits Media
Developers of the Head Fund Defi Force announced the attack on the project, organized by five attackers, One of which returned the stolen money. The rest of the hackers brought the Force tokens on $376 000.
According to the project of decentralized financing (DeFi) Force on Twitter,