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• This cryptocurrency mining botnet uses Taylor Swift pics to propagate itself

  A cryptocurrency-mining botnet is infecting computers with an image of Taylor Swift to spread its malware as widely as possible. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Alleged Bitcoin scam that raised $359M busted by Brazilian police

  Police in Brazil have busted a purported Bitcoin investment scheme that allegedly stole $359 million (1.5 million reais) ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram tries to mimic TikTok with its new ‘Reels’ feature in Brazil

  Instagram has finally launched its first weapon in the war against TikTok– Reels. TechCrunch and Variety reported The editing ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Tencent given green light to create blockchain-based invoice standards, bad news for tax evaders

  After first announcing the project last year, Chinese tech giant Tencent has been given the go-ahead by the country's tax ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Hundreds charged after takedown of child exploitation site which made $730K in Bitcoin

  US prosecutors say the online marketplace was operated by Jong Woo Son, who is currently serving an 18-month jail sentence ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Android stalker app cases increase by 373% in 2019

  Stalkware apps have increased a whopping 373 percent during the first eight months of 2019 when compared to the same period ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Instagram is hiding likes in 6 more countries so you can post like no one’s watching

  In an effort to remove the pressure of posting more often, Instagram doubling down on its experiment to hide likes and views ...

  • Mix

• Spotify now has a Lite app for Android users in 36 countries

  Spotify has just launched a Lite version of its Android app that's designed to work well on low-end devices and spotty connections. The ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Razer drops streamer for tweeting ‘men are trash’ in response to sexual harassment

  Razer announced that it won’t renew Gabriela Cattuzzo's contract, a popular Brazilianvideo game streamer with almost 90k ...

  • Cara Curtis

• 55,000 Brazilians scammed out of $200M+ worth of fake cryptocurrency

  A Brazilian crime ring has been shut down after conning over 55,000 investors for over $200 million by promising fake returns ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Police bust potential Bitcoin money laundering scheme in Brazil

  Brazilian police have arrested a man on suspicion that he was running a drug trafficking ring and laundering funds using ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Bitcoin pyramid scheme leaves Kenyans out of pocket after exit scam

  A long-running Bitcoin pyramid scheme has pulled its inevitable exit scam, leaving a number of investors severely out-of-pocket. ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!

  Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica  scandal in March, to a data breach ...

  • Jennifer Baker

• Track down the world’s cheapest Apple products with this super simple site

  If you've ever wanted to know how much different Apple products across the world cost, now you can – all thanks to the ...

  • Callum Booth

• Fortnite bests Russia and Japan to become world's 8th most-populated place

  Epic Games today revealed that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Research: More than 56% of all cryptocurrency crime happens in the US

  Investigations reveal account information of 720 cryptocurrency exchange users has been stolen, a 369 percent increase from ...

  • David Canellis

• 200,000 routers in Brazil were secretly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency

  Brazil has been hit by an elaborate cryptocurrency mining attack that infected hundreds of thousands of routers across the ...

  • David Canellis