Following the article titled “Beware of Excel Files in Email Attachment, Says Symantec”, some of our readers are curious about how hackers use excel files to compromise user’s computers. Below is a simple tutorial for you. We do not recommend users to open excel (especially excel files among other office format files) from an unknown … Continue reading How Do Hackers Use Excel Files to Compromise Your Computers?
US travel management company CWT paid $4.5 million in Bitcoin to hackers who stole sensitive corporate files. CWT has a global clientele and is the fifth-largest US travel company. The firm boasts an estimate of $1.5 billion in annual revenue and claims that it represents more than a third of companies on the S&P 500 … Continue reading US Travel Firm CWT Paid $4.5 Million in Bitcoin to Get Computer System Back from Hackers
Computer scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of identifying malicious codes that prompt supercomputers to mine cryptocurrencies like Monero and Bitcoin. The lab operating under the United States Department of Energy hopes to put an end to cryptocurrency cybercrime. Software-based watchdog Hackers are continuously wreaking havoc … Continue reading US National Lab Computer Scientists Deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Thwart Illegal Crypto Mining
A former employee of an Australian federal agency avoided prison despite mining cryptocurrency on government supercomputers. Former CSIRO contractor illegally mines crypto Jonathan Khoo, a former 34-year-old contractor for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), was alleged to have used the supercomputers at work in order to mine Ether (ETH) and Monero (XMR). … Continue reading Australian Federal Agency Ex-Employee Evades Prison Despite Illegally Mining Ether and Monero on Supercomputers
Airport officials working at Italy’s Lamezia Terme International airport have arrested a 41-year-old technician for unlawfully mining Ethereum using the airport computers. The postal police disclosed that the suspect was in charge of computerized infrastructure at the airport. Anomalies detected The technician who is an employee of Sacal Global Solutions, the company contracted to maintain … Continue reading Italian Authorities Bust Illegal Ethereum Mining Activities Using Airport Computers
A hacker group known as ‘the Black Shadow’ demands Shirbit insurance company to pay a ransom of 50 Bitcoins worth $961,110 to their BTC wallet within 24 hours. The hacker group attacked the leading insurance company Shirbit Insurance in Israel on December 1. The group has said that if the insurance firm sends the funds within … Continue reading Hackers Demand $1 Million in Bitcoin Ransom After Hacking Computer Systems of Insurance Firm
The trading performance of Internet Computer (ICP) token skyrocketed after it was listed on a number of leading cryptocurrency exchanges. ICP figures among the top ten cryptocurrencies by market capitalization currently in circulation. According to Coinmarketcap, ICP is ranked as the eighth-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $40.8 billion. Currently, the token is trading at $339.63. … Continue reading Internet Computer (ICP): Everything You Need to Know
Cybersecurity experts foresee quantum computers could be advanced enough to break through the Great wall of Cryptographic security within a decade. The application of digital signature to access financial accounts could be risky to be attacked by quantum computer hacking, CNBC reported Thursday. Cybersecurity experts indicate that most world financial services are using asymmetric cryptography. … Continue reading Stay Alert to Crypto Wallets Protection from Quantum Computer Attack
Meta is reported to be building the world’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer. The announcement was made by the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, adding that the computer is being built as part of the plans to build a virtual metaverse. Meta, formerly known as Facebook, said that the infrastructure is a major requirement since the metaverse … Continue reading Meta to Build World's Fastest Supercomputer for Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg Confirms
Internet Computer has launched a roadmap for 2022, saying it will roll out the integration of Bitcoin and Ethereum by the end of 2022. Internet Computer is the world’s first decentralized public network with an unlimited capacity established by the DFINITY Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2016 by Dominic Williams in Zurich, Switzerland. Its function … Continue reading Internet Computer to Integrate with Bitcoin and Ethereum by the End of 2022