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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...
Read More »Monero-Mining Crypto Botnet ‘VictoryGate’ Affecting At Least 35,000 Computers Taken Down
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...
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