#Ethereum unlike #Bitcoin, is more than an asset for transfers of value. ETH can be likened to a commodity asset needed for fueling a #DeFi system. ETH can be viewed as a capital asset linked in value to the adoption of proof-of-stake blockchain protocols. https://t.co/Ayet9Vr4t4
Despite being extraordinarily risky and volatile — as evidenced by the 25% drop it took between last Friday and Monday afternoon — #Bitcoin has, in some sense, been admitted to the club and is now seen by many as a plausible competitor to assets like gold. https://t.co/3Cuv1fB286
Security researchers have discovered a remote access trojan (RAT) used to empty cryptocurrency wallets of thousand #Windows, Linux, and macOS users. Named #ElectroRAT after being discovered in December, the cross-platform RAT malware is written in @Golang. https://t.co/4We57tTd1S
Sunday's record high came 12 years after Satoshi Nakamoto created the "genesis block" in the #Bitcoin blockchain with a headline reading: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. #Ethereum is also trading above $990 for the first time since 2018. https://t.co/UqwyJTb5fc
#Ethereum have also rallied. However, concerns remain about the speculative nature of cryptocurrencies. Last week the #SEC accused @Ripple's executives of misleading $XRP investors, by selling $1bn of the virtual tokens without registering with the agency. https://t.co/Evab1c7bv5
#Ledger's data dump exposed a million email addresses, 272,000 names, mailing addresses and phone numbers belonging to customers who ordered the @Ledger hardware wallets. The number of users affected was much higher than the 9,500 estimated by the company. https://t.co/KuIbzkFH66
Israel's NSO Group #Pegasus spyware was allegedly armed with a computer security weapon: a zero-footprint, zero-click, zero-day exploit using a vulnerability in iMessage to seize control of an iPhone at the push of a button and that has been dubbed #Kismet https://t.co/vIKc7C7J49
"#Ethereum is the second #cryptocurrency by market capitalization and volume. The introduction of listed #Ether futures to @CMEGroup derivatives marketplace will help to create a forward curve so @Ethereum market participants can better manage price risk." https://t.co/GMla6TsrHz
There is concern within the U.S. intelligence community that foreign government-backed hacking groups who targeted the @USTreasury & Telecommunications and Information Administration @NTIAgov used similar tools to break into the cybersecurity firm #FireEye https://t.co/aQhvaNlwbF
UPDATE: Sources tell me that the victims--Treasury, Commerce, FireEye--were breached through an IT Management System called Solar Winds https://t.co/DDnvtFo0uG
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) responsible for COVID-19 vaccine approval has suffered a cyberattack. @Pfizer and #BioNTech disclosed that some documents related to their COVID-19 submissions were accessed by the threat actors during EMA's cyberattack. https://t.co/bvKCTYIyJ9
#FireEye said on #PatchTuesday that is had been hacked, possibly by a foreign government in an APT attack. The hacking lead to the theft of an arsenal of hacking tools that the company reserves for privately testing the cyber defenses of their own clients. https://t.co/dlE2GiE4n3
#Gaussian Boson Sampling (#GBS) machines will be able to crack #RSA public key cryptography and security teams will have to pivot to post-quantum #crypto solutions. @DigiCert said teams will need to have protections from #quantum breaches in place by 2022. https://t.co/jKrHHex4uP
The #Enigma machine, which was used to send coded messages during the second world war, was discovered by divers on assignment for the environmental group @WWF searching for abandoned fishing nets in the Bay of Gelting, off the north-east coast of Germany. https://t.co/vNsa3i7E58
Blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency risk intelligence firm @CipherTrace reported yesterday it had seen an increase in posts alleging user funds have been stolen via a Chrome browser extension phishing attack masquerading as #Ethereum's wallet #MetaMask https://t.co/OBQOPdcu66