Cointelegraph By Arijit Sarkar
A hacker walked away with $25 million from quantitative trading firm Kronos Research after accessing its compromised API keys.On Nov. 19, Kronos Research revealed that an unauthorized entity accessed some of its API keys. Subsequently, the firm stopped its trading services on the platform. However, no losses were reported at...
Fourteen Ukrainian officials received advanced training on investigating new-age financial crimes in a training course held from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 in Vienna.According to a report released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSEC), the select supervisory and law enforcement officials from Ukraine learned about advanced...
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada’s primary national intelligence agency, raised concerns about the disinformation campaigns conducted across the internet using artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes.Canada sees the growing “realism of deepfakes” coupled with the “inability to recognize or detect them” as a potential threat to Canadians. In its...
Binance will publicly roll out a Thailand-based crypto exchange in early 2024 via a joint venture with local energy giant Gulf Energy Development.A Nov. 15 Stock Exchange of Thailand filing by Gulf Energy said the venture, called Gulf Binance, will initially be available on an invitation-only basis with a...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced five additional industry pilots into the Project Guardian to test various use cases around asset tokenization. Project Guardian is a collaborative initiative led by Singapore’s central bank that seeks to develop new financial infrastructure using decentralized finance (DeFi) elements. The latest initiatives...
The United States Financial Services Committee (FSC) has scheduled a Nov. 15 hearing for a deep dive into the illicit activities in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The hearing, ‘Crypto crime in context: breaking down the illicit activity in digital assets,’ will feature prominent crypto entrepreneurs as attendees. According to the...
The Bitcoin (BTC) mining community recorded its annual all-time high (ATH) on Nov. 12 after raking in over $44 million in block rewards and transaction fees. The revenue from Bitcoin mining primarily comes from rewards for confirming Bitcoin transactions and creating new blocks using high-tech computer equipment known as mining...
The frontman of the popular virtual universe game Roblox, David Baszucki, has said he ‘dreams’ of having the ability to move nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and digital objects across multiple platforms. Following the company's Q3 2023 earnings call, Roblox founder and CEO Baszucki spoke about the role major influencers play in...
The annual report from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) revealed that officials from various cybercrime and police departments were trained in cryptocurrency forensics and investigation during the financial year 2022–2023.The MHA highlighted that, under the Narcotics Control Bureau — India’s central law enforcement and intelligence agency —...
Crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of its new Web3 wallet at the Binance Blockchain Week conference in Istanbul, to be made available to all users via the Binance mobile app.During the launch, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO of Binance, revealed the intent behind launching the service:“Web3 wallets represent...
