Tag: cybersecurity

MetaMask's SSD Bug A Silent Killer? 5 Ways to Protect Your Data

MetaMask's SSD Bug A Silent Killer? 5 Ways to Protect Your Data

Is your crypto wallet making your computer a crypto-wallet-taco? Yet unlike such a premise from a dystopian sci-fi novel, this situation is not fiction. The reality is much more mundane and, quite frankly, maddening as hell. One of the major providers of just such a wallet, MetaMask, is experiencing a...

7 Fatal Flaws Exposed by $10M DeFi Hack: A Startup Guide

7 Fatal Flaws Exposed by $10M DeFi Hack: A Startup Guide

The DeFi movement heralded this financial revolution, a transparent, equitable financial system without the gatekeepers of Wall Street. Let's be brutally honest: the $10 million exploit targeting uninitialized ERC-1967 proxy contracts is a stark reminder that we're still in the Wild West. In that Wild West, you certainly don’t want...

Crypto's Human Cost: Social Engineering's Real Victims Speak Out

Crypto's Human Cost: Social Engineering's Real Victims Speak Out

We discuss market capitalizations, DeFi, NFTs. We obsess over the next Bitcoin halving. Amidst all the technical jargon and potential riches, we often forget the deeply human cost lurking in the shadows of the crypto world. Instead, the big, shiny headlines celebrating the million-dollar windfall victories distract from the silent...

Crypto's Achilles Heel: Social Engineering Exposes Governance Flaws

Crypto's Achilles Heel: Social Engineering Exposes Governance Flaws

We've all seen the headlines: another crypto heist, another wallet drained. But while the media often focuses on the technological exploits, the real story is far more insidious: social engineering. It's the pickpocket of the digital age, and it's exposing a gaping hole in crypto's armor, a fundamental flaw in...

Crypto Wallet Drain Alert: Elaborate Social Engineering Scheme!

Crypto Wallet Drain Alert: Elaborate Social Engineering Scheme!

Emily Tran, writing for BlockchainShock.com, sheds light on a concerning trend in the cryptocurrency space: the rise of sophisticated social engineering schemes designed to drain crypto wallets. These scams are getting more and more sophisticated, reaching potential victims across social media, blogs, and even newsletters. It's crucial for crypto investors...

7 Crypto Wallet Security Flaws You Didn't Know Existed

7 Crypto Wallet Security Flaws You Didn't Know Existed

The Wild West. Trailblazers, that’s what they called the American frontier, and frankly, it’s an apt metaphor for the wild world of crypto today. We’ve got innovation, opportunity, and… rampant lawlessness. It seems like everyone’s excited already about whatever the next big thing in DeFi will be. Few are both...

Darktrace AI Thwarts Extensive Cyberattack, Halts 718 GB Data Exfiltration

Darktrace AI Thwarts Extensive Cyberattack, Halts 718 GB Data Exfiltration

Darktrace's Autonomous Response technology successfully neutralized a sophisticated cyberattack, preventing the exfiltration of 718 GB of data and mitigating significant damage to a customer's network. The attack, characterized by compromised credentials, unusual network activity, and attempts to modify virtual machine configurations, was detected and contained by Darktrace's AI-powered system before...

NimDoor: North Korean Hackers Target Crypto on macOS!

NimDoor: North Korean Hackers Target Crypto on macOS!

The world of cryptocurrency is no stranger to threats, and now macOS users are facing a new challenge: NimDoor malware. Cybersecurity experts are warning lawmakers and the public about NimDoor’s effect on crypto users and businesses. Specifics on the ongoing situation are still developing. This short article will piece together...

Nim-Based CoreKitAgent Malware Targets Web3 and Crypto Platforms

Nim-Based CoreKitAgent Malware Targets Web3 and Crypto Platforms

North Korean threat actors are actively targeting Web3 and cryptocurrency platforms with a sophisticated, newly discovered malware strain known as CoreKitAgent. CoreKitAgent, developed using the Nim programming language, presents expert-level methods. It uses anti-virtual machine (VM) and sandbox countermeasures and uses complex state machine control flow and uses AppleScript for...

NOTAI & Zoro: Powering the Future of Decentralized AI for Devs

NOTAI & Zoro: Powering the Future of Decentralized AI for Devs

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology is creating amazing opportunities for developers like never before. NOTAI and Zoro are at the forefront of that revolution. Together they are empowering developers, providing them with the tools to create and monetize AI applications in a developer-first, decentralized global economy....

3 Reasons NOTAI & Zoro Partnership Signals a Maturing Web3 AI

3 Reasons NOTAI & Zoro Partnership Signals a Maturing Web3 AI

Web3 AI. Those words ooze with tech utopianism, no? Between the hype and the headlines, it's crucial to ask: is this real progress, or just another echo in the crypto space? NOTAI and Zoro Technology have recently entered into a powerful collaborative relationship. They are bridging Web2 AI to the...

NOTAI & Zoro: Will This Partnership Finally Democratize AI For All?

NOTAI & Zoro: Will This Partnership Finally Democratize AI For All?

Let’s be honest, the AI revolution seems a bit… elitist at the moment. What we often hear about are these mind-blowing advancements, but who exactly benefits from them? Big tech, mostly. The average Joe or Jane? Not so much. That’s why the relationship between NOTAI and Zoro Technology surprised and...

Crypto Presales Explode: Top 5 to Watch (and Why You Should Care)

Crypto Presales Explode: Top 5 to Watch (and Why You Should Care)

The crypto market is always changing, and along with it the methods investors use to discover the next big winner. Emily Tran, writing for IBD, explains why one of the biggest trends to watch is the crypto presale boom. As a result, investors are perpetually seeking the next moonshot crypto....

Top 5 Crypto Presales Powering A Future We All Deserve

Top 5 Crypto Presales Powering A Future We All Deserve

We stand at a crossroads. On the other side, the establishment – old embedded power, opaque systems, financial gatekeepers. On the other, a collaborative, community-based, blockchain-enabled, decentralized future. And crypto presales are the ignition switch.Think about it. The internet brought the hope of a democratized flow of information, but under...

5 Crypto Presales or Ponzi Schemes? A Principled Investor's Guide

5 Crypto Presales or Ponzi Schemes? A Principled Investor's Guide

What does that even look like in the Wild West that is cryptocurrency right now. To me, it’s about taking those common-sense, old-fashioned values, and applying them to a new-fangled space. It's about long-term value over short-term hype, ethical considerations over fleeting trends, and understanding what you're putting your hard-earned...

DeSoc's $10M Win: Is Social-DeFi the Future for XRP & AVAX Fans?

DeSoc's $10M Win: Is Social-DeFi the Future for XRP & AVAX Fans?

Therefore, investor interest is turning on its head. Today, the focus shifts to Decentralized Social (DeSoc) platforms, leaving established cryptocurrencies such as XRP and AVAX behind. This change demonstrates the increasing attractiveness of social-DeFi utility, which we believe can transform social media as we know it. DeSoc platforms offer a...

Is DeSoc's $10M Funding a Threat to XRP's Real-World Dominance?

Is DeSoc's $10M Funding a Threat to XRP's Real-World Dominance?

So, DeSoc got $10 million. Good for them. Investors, many of them once bullish on XRP and AVAX, are suddenly flooding cash into this “social-DeFi” nonsense. Let's not get carried away. Is big money the angel of death for XRP? I think not. In fact, I think the market's getting...