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July 28, 2021

Mastercard advances feasible card program for cryptocurrency companies

Mastercard and its partners will test this new capability to enable more banks and crypto companies to offer a card option to people wanting to spend their digital assets anywhere Mastercard is accepted.
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July 1, 2021

Cyberattacks on cryptocurrency grow 192%

Cryptocurrency seems to be a perfect currency for criminal activity — it’s unregulated, difficult to trace, and increasing in value. For these reasons, it has fuelled and enabled a multibillion economy of ransomware, cyber-extortion, and impersonation.
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June 7, 2021

Paxful Pay, an e-Commerce solution to strengthen Cryptocurrency adoption

Paxful Pay, businesses have ability to manage their earnings and convert bitcoin into their local currency on Paxful Marketplace using almost 400 payment methods. Merchants will have control over configuration of solution on their Paxful Merchant Dashboard and can track every transaction. Paxful Pay allow merchants to automatically convert bitcoin into their local currency within their bank account
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May 17, 2021

167 fake Android and iOS trading and cryptocurrency apps exposed

A report on the findings, “Fake Android and iOS apps disguised as trading and cryptocurrency apps,” shows how the attackers used social engineering techniques, counterfeit websites, including a fake iOS App Store download page.
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March 30, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s TII unveils first post-quantum cryptography library in UAE

The library is a collection of algorithms to safeguard confidential data and information. With the rise of quantum computers, classic cryptographic algorithms are no longer sufficient to ensure secure data storage and secure digital communication.
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March 23, 2021

Cisco finds that cryptomining malware affected 69% of customers in 2020

Among the DNS activity findings: users in 70 percent of organizations got malicious browser ads. Furthermore, 51 percent of organizations encountered ransomware-related activity. Another 48 percent found information-stealing malware activity.
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January 6, 2021

TII’s Cryptography Research Centre joins forces with Yale University

The neuromorphic computing project, ‘Energy-based Probing for Robust and Explainable Spiking Neural Networks’, takes inspiration from the brain to create energy-efficient hardware for information processing and is capable of highly sophisticated tasks.
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December 16, 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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October 22, 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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July 17, 2020

Mac users targeted to pilfer cryptocurrency from their wallets, ESET

The legitimate Kattana trading application was rebranded – including setting up copycat websites – and the malware was bundled into its installer.
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