August 8, 2022
Crypto-collapse and rising smart attacks: Kaspersky reports on DDoS in Q2
During Q2 2022, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks reached a new high as the proportion of smart attacks and average duration increased dramatically. The average duration of a DDoS attack increased 100 times over the previous year, reaching 3,000 minutes. Smart attacks nearly broke the four-year record, accounting for nearly half of all attacks.
August 4, 2022
Global crypto trading competition breaks records despite bear market
The WSOT, the world's largest crypto trading competition, concluded on a high note on July 17, with traders dividing a record-breaking $8 million prize pool. Despite difficult market conditions, the best traders made over 10,000% profits after 20 days of intense competition.
August 1, 2022
Highly active APT campaign targeting cryptocurrency industry discovered
Researchers from Kaspersky saw an increase in the number of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors focusing on the cryptocurrency sector in the second quarter of 2022. The actor behind this recent and intense effort, known as "NaiveCopy," targeted South Korean stock.
May 20, 2022
How does crypto mining work?
In 2009, an anonymous person who went by the alias Satoshi Nakamoto was said to have mined the first batch of 50 bitcoins using the CPU chip of their personal computer.