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24 June 2021

McAfee sees Raas, CoinMiner and Internet of Things threats surge in Q1 2021

McAfee Q1 2021 sees customized Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) targeting larger organizations. 64-bit CoinMiner applications allowing cryptocurrency-generating coin mining malware by 117% and new Mirai-based malware variant targeting Internet of Things (55%) and Linux (38%) systems.
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26 May 2021

SCA and MoE to reimagine future of financial services industry in UAE

The Fintech Megathon 2021 is centered on finding innovative technical solutions to challenges facing the services sector under eight thematic areas, namely asset management/investment advisory, digital assets/cryptocurrencies, crowdfunding, forex (trading of foreign currencies, e-KYC form, SME financing, financial inclusion, and suptech and regtech. the megathon encourages innovators, financial institutions, regulators, and other ecosystem partners across the UAE .
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9 April 2021

Palo Alto Networks Cloud Threat Report 1H 2021

Organizations experienced large expansions in the size of cloud workload deployments following the onset of the pandemic, but they also suffered an uptick in cloud security incidents.
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29 March 2021

Hackers start forging “Official” vaccination certificates on Darknet

So there’s a strong and growing demand for vaccinations and test results because of the greater freedoms they will give to people. And of course, there will always be people who don’t want to wait for their official vaccination, or for an official negative test result – and shady people willing to service that demand.
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28 March 2021

Cybersecurity-first approach for businesses using new FinTech solutions

According to research from ESET, which looked at the attitudes of 1,200 senior managers across the world, over two-thirds (68%) of senior business leaders expect their company’s investment in FinTech to increase to some extent in 2021-2022. However, as is the case with any new technology, this growing adoption of FinTech creates new risks for businesses.
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28 February 2021

What is NFT? VC David Pakman

Non-fungible tokens have been around for two years, but these […]
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16 December 2020

Spectrami, CipherTrace join hands to offer cryptocurrency intelligence solutions

The partnership with CipherTrace will allow the company to expand its product portfolio to include blockchain analysis, cryptocurrency investigation, and AML tools such as CipherTrace Armada™ and CipherTrace Inspector™.
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1 November 2020

ESET report reveals remote workers are under fire from RDP attacks

ESET telemetry showed further growth in attacks targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which grew throughout H1. While the number of unique clients targeted rose by more than a third, the total number of attack attempts surged by 140%.
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22 October 2020

PayPal to let you buy and sell cryptocurrencies in the US

PayPal  has partnered with cryptocurrency company Paxos to launch a new service. PayPal users in […]
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3 October 2020

Israel’s INX launches US SEC registered security token IPO

INX has set the offering price at US$0.90 per Token with a minimum investment of US$1,000. BTC/USD, ETH/USD and USDC/USD exchange rates will be determined in the manner as disclosed in the final prospectus.
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