The school, located in the Bronx and serving around 8,000 students, has declined to say whether it will pay up.
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Bitcoin eats as much energy as Switzerland
That’s around seven gigawatts, equal to 0.21% of the world’s supply: as much power as generated by seven Dungeness nuclear power plants.
Florida city will pay over $600,000 to ransomware attackers
Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay attackers over $600,000 three weeks after its systems were crippled by ransomware.
It’s a SCAM: Send Bitcoin or your company’s reputation is TOAST!
“I will insult people. And everyone will not care that it’s not you.” But it’s social-disaster baloney!
Crooks using hacked Microsoft email accounts to steal cryptocurrency
Hacked Microsoft email accounts are being used by criminals to compromise victims’ cryptocurrency exchange accounts and empty their funds.
Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations
The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.
Ep. 022 – Plaintext passwords, cryptocoin criminality and the Momo monstrosity [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of the Naked Security podcast – listen now!
Disgruntled dev blames crypto-wallet for losing cryptocoins
Warith Al Maawali is blaming wallet vendor Coinomi for the loss of $65,000 in bitcoin. Coinomi countered by blaming him for blackmail.
Child abuse imagery found in cryptocurrency blockchain
For the second time in a year, illegal child abuse images have been spotted inside a blockchain. According to a post by web blockchain payments system Money Button, on 30 January its service was abused to place “illegal content” inside the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) ledger, a recent cryptocurrency hard fork from Bitcoin Cash [BCH]. […]
Dark Overlord hackers release alleged 9/11 lawsuit documents
The extortionists leaked a “small sample” of what they say are 18k classified legal documents containing 9/11 “truth” stolen from a law firm.