Monero (XMR)

After hacking a major New York-based law firm, the cryptocurrency-demanding hacking group called REvil has threatened to auction off sensible documents starting from July 1st of celebrities such as LeBron James, Mariah Carey, and Nicki Minaj.REvil To Sell Stolen Documents?CryptoPotato reported in mid-May that the infamous hackers’ group attacked a law firm called Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks representing numerous celebrities and large companies in the entertainment business. REvil...

Crime and dark web activity have always been big in the crypto space, but as of late, it looks like the numbers in the space have grown exponentially over the past three years.The Dark Web Is Expanding HeavilyAccording to a new report issued by Bitfury – a bitcoin technology firm – dark web activity in the crypto arena has surged by more than 300 percent over the past three years. Furthermore, the number surged by more than 60 percent in just 2020 alone. The report suggests that dark net...

A recent report indicated that the hacker group known as REvil (or Sodinokibi) had attacked the website of a New York-based law firm representing famous individuals such as Sir Elton John, Madonna, and Lady Gaga.Interestingly, the group recently announced switching from Bitcoin to Monero as the primary method of ransom payments.REvil Hacks A Law FirmThe BBC report revealed that REvil has taken down the website of the New York law firm called Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks. The group...

BitcoinBitcoin saw an impressive 11.5% price surge over the past 7 days of trading as the cryptocurrency manages to reach as high as $10,000 again. During the week, the coin managed to break above the previous resistance at $9,000 and continued above further resistance at $9,426 and $9,815 to reach the $10,000 level.Looking ahead, if the buyers break above $10,000, resistance is located at $10,226 (1.618 Fib Extension) and $10,430 (2020 high). Above this, resistance is located at $10,810,...

Es kann sein, dass in der Bitcoin-Welt bald wieder FOMO herrscht. FOMO steht als Abkürzung für „Fear of missing out“. Zu Deutsch ist damit die Angst, etwas zu verpassen, gemeint. Vor allem wenn der Bitcoin-Preis wieder mal durch die Decke geht, kann dies zu FOMO-Entscheidungen führen. FOMO kann allerdings gerade bei Investitionen in Kryptowährungen zu impulsiven, unüberlegten Entscheidungen führen. Lassen Sie sich nicht von FOMO leiten. Lesen Sie vor einer Investiton folgende...

A Norwegian billionaire named Tom Hagen is now in prison and being prepared for questioning in his wife’s murder. Hagen is a real estate mogul who reported that his 69-year-old wife was kidnapped in late 2018. The kidnappers were allegedly asking that he fork over $10 million in Monero funds if he ever wanted to see his wife again.Hagen May Have Been InvolvedHagen, age 70, reported that he came home one night to find the ransom note in the couple’s bathroom asking for the money. The note was...

A woman who thought to have been abducted in 2018 and held for cryptocurrency ransom is believed to be murdered. Last Tuesday her millionaire husband was arrested in suspicion of killing her, Reuters reported.Businessman Tom Hagen’s wife Anne-Elizabeth Hagen, then 68, disappeared from her home in October 2018. The news hit the publicity and the Nordic nation later in January 2019.According to a new report by Reuters, the police in Norway arrested Tom Hagen on Tuesday.“After now 18 months of...

The Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET has identified and taken down at least a part of a cryptocurrency-mining botnet dubbed VictoryGate. The previously undocumented botnet has been active for almost a year and had supposedly infected more than 35,000 computers.Crypto-Mining Botnet Malicious EndeavorsIn its recent press release, the Bratislava-headquartered internet security company announced working together with the nonprofit Shadowserver Foundation to discover and disrupt “at least a portion...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 860. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow mit 100.000 USD Mondprognose gescheitert, Monero Mining mit dem Handy & Craig Wright zieht Klage gegen Adam Back zurück. 1.) Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow mit 100.000 USD Mondprognose gescheitert? Analysten zeigen möglichen...

Future victims of the crew behind the Sodinokibi Ransomware will have to pay with Monero, instead of Bitcoin, the group announced. They noted that combining the privacy coin with TOR will make the payments almost impossible to trace.Hacker Group Replaces BTC With XMRThe infamous group behind the Sodinokibi Ransomware is now accepting the privacy coin Monero as a primary payment method instead of Bitcoin. According to a recent report, the crew believes that utilizing XRM will make it harder...