GootLoader hijacks WordPress sites to lure professionals to download malicious sample contract templates.

The vulnerability was patched this week in Microsoft's set of security updates for January 2022.

Hong Kong’s central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), is seriously mulling over how to properly regulate stablecoins. The HKMA thinks that while stablecoins still pose a risk to financial stability, they have potential to be incorporated into the market. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority thinks stablecoins have potential In a discussion paper that

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According to Chinese astrology, 2022 is the Chinese Year of the Tiger. Chinese tradition has it that the Year of the Tiger is the third of a 12-year cycle of animals in the Chinese Zodiac. While there are different stories about how the animals came to be part of the Zodiac, one of the most […]

Threat actors are creating accounts within the Adobe Cloud suite and sending images and PDFs that appear legitimate to target Office 365 and Gmail users, researchers from Avanan discovered.

Solana is one of the crypto giants contributing $47 billion to the crypto market. The currency came into existence in 2020 and has been on an upward spiral ever since. Bank of America states that Solana could shortly become the ‘visa of crypto. Coin Telegraph reports that Bank of America will acquire Ethereum’s market profit

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Recently, the ultra-rich spent more than $2.6 billion on this 277-year old asset in just 2 weeks.

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Nimble is partnering with Verida to build a decentralized insurance protocol. (Read More)

Binance, the global leader in crypto trading volume, has successfully registered new corporate entities in Calgary, a city in the province of Alberta Canada according to a local report. The report adds that Binance also completed two high-profile hires to push its regulatory compliance move. Binance cementing its regulatory compliance in Canada with incorporation and

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People use bitcoin by sharing their payment address that looks like this : mp525tN8b3v4aos32hQT8E6cepdhZVyqVC Let us suppose this bitcoin address belongs to a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper puts this address on a poster behind the shop in the form of a QR code. Now, customers can scan that code with their bitcoin wallet application to pay for their bought items.  The problem is anyone can look for that address in the bitcoin blockchain and can see every incoming or outgoing transaction of that address and the total bitcoin balance of the address. Anyone with that information can get an idea of how rich the shopkeeper is and how successful the shop has been in the past. This information can be exploited by bad actors such as robbers for their personal gains. Also, if we are sitting next to someone while they pay for their bought items, then we can get the idea of how rich the customer sitting next to us is, by seeing the most recent incoming transaction to the shopkeeper’s address and then looking up the balance of the sending address i.e the customer address. So, Bitcoin does not provide full financial privacy, and your average innocent user gets no privacy whatsoever. There are various examples like this, where user privacy can be breached and information gained through it can be exploited by bad actors for their personal gains. Zcash protocol solves this problem of financial privacy for the users. It allows users to send money anywhere without risking their privacy.  What is Zcash and How does it enhance privacy? Zcash is a privacy cryptocurrency that provides anonymous value transfer using zero-knowledge-proof cryptography technology. Zcash is a bitcoin fork and most of the Zcash code is built from bitcoin’s original open-source code but there is a key difference that it uses encryption techniques in payments for privacy. The protocol provides two choices to the user when they transact, they can choose a shielded address for their transaction which will be fully anonymous or they can choose a transparent address where their transactions will be fully visible on the blockchain. When the user uses a shielded address for their transactions, details of transactions are not available for the public to see on the blockchain. Shielded addresses transaction information is encrypted and is not visible to the public. All the transactions that are executed by transparent addresses are visible publicly on the blockchain. How does Zcash Works?           The above diagram shows the whole process of Zcash transactions Zero-knowledge proofs are required to be generated when the user uses shielded addresses for transactions. It allows others to verify transaction details by keeping them private and not revealing them to the public. Shielded addresses always start with a ‘z’ and are called ‘z-addrs’. Similarly, when the user uses transparent addresses, all the transactions interact with the Transparent Value Pool and transactions details are publicly available in the blockchain. These transparent addresses always start with “t” and are called ‘t-addrs’. All the details of transaction fees of both transparent addresses and shielded addresses transactions pass through the Transparent Value Pool and are easily visible in the blockchain.  Tokenomics Zcash token symbol is $ZEC. Similar to bitcoin, the maximum supply of Zcash tokens is 21 million. All Zcash tokens will be mined by 2032, and Zcash block rewards will get halved every four years. In the initial four years after the starting of Zcash mining, 20 percent of its block rewards will be distributed to Electric Coin Company, and 80% of its block rewards will be distributed to miners. At the time of writing this article, the circulating supply of Zcash is 11.99 million, the price of Zcash token is 144.40 US dollars and the market cap of Zcash is 1.73 billion US dollars. Main Features of Zcash Low-Fee Transactions Transactions fees on Zcash protocol are very low i.e 0.0001 Zcash. Zcash token is supported by various crypto wallets and exchanges. Encrypted Memos   When a user does transactions from a shielded address, a memo field is available to fill in any information. Encrypted memos allow the sender to send information that is encrypted and not available for the public to see. Messages and important information can be passed in the memo field. The Rules of compliance made by the Bank Secrecy Act “Travel” are also followed. Viewing Keys For the purpose of regulatory compliance or auditing, transaction details can be revealed by the owner of shielded addresses. The owner can reveal all the incoming transactions and the info in the memo field but can’t disclose the sender’s address unless any information identifying the sender’s address is already mentioned in the memo field.  Multi-Signature Transactions Zcash also supports transactions that require signatures of multiple parties and after their approval, the funds … Continued

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Sony released the 10 best-selling PSVR games on the PS Store for 2021 but... No new games ranked, just as with Steam's list.

The Bitcoin (BTC) price has regained momentum after sellers pushed the largest cryptocurrency below the $40,000 level.