Month: July 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pushed a platform based partly on “economic independence” in his 2024 presidential campaign, specifically calling out policy on digital currencies.  Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire on July 31, DeSantis reiterated his plans of banning central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, should he win the Republican nomination and presidential
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Jul 31, 2023THNCyber Threat / Botnet The P2PInfect peer-to-peer (P2) worm has been observed employing previously undocumented initial access methods to breach susceptible Redis servers and rope them into a botnet. “The malware compromises exposed instances of the Redis data store by exploiting the replication feature,” Cado Security researchers Nate Bill and Matt Muir said
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After years of leaving 39,712 Ether (ETH) locked at the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) auction, a whale using the domain “darkmarket.eth” has reclaimed the digital assets and transferred over $119 million in ETH to a new wallet.  After 2.7 years of dormancy, darkmarket.eth reclaim 39,712 $ETH ($74.17M) locked in the ENS auction just now. And
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Authorities in the town of Miri on the island of Borneo shut down an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation and seized equipment following a tip-off from the public. According to local news outlet The Borneo Post, Sarawak Energy discovered the operation, which included 34 cryptocurrency mining servers operating using stolen electricity through cable tapping. Authorities seized all
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Fire-Boltt Gladiator Plus smartwatch has been launched in India under Rs. 3,000. The smartwatch comes with a 1.96-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 410×502 pixels and 60Hz refresh rate. The display can reach up to 600 nits of peak brightness. The smartwatch features Bluetooth calling and smart health sensors like a heart rate monitor,
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Jul 31, 2023THNWebsite Security / WordPress Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress that could be exploited by threat actors to escalate privileges and steal sensitive data. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-37979, CVE-2023-38386, and CVE-2023-38393, impact versions 3.6.25 and below, Patchstack said in a report last week. Ninja Forms
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Memecoin madness has arrived on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Base, bringing with it everything from remarkable shitcoin surges to classic token rug pulls. On July 30, memecoin traders were snapping up a suite of questionable tokens on Base, with one Brian Armstrong-themed memecoin dubbed “BALD” experiencing a 289,000% gain within the first 14 hours
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