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Researchers found a vulnerability in NEAR’s peer-to-peer networking protocol that could have crashed any node, but it was patched before an attacker could discover it. Go to Source
In just under two weeks, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network has skyrocketed from 134,000 to over 390,000, causing a bottleneck in the mempool. This surge in unconfirmed transactions has resulted in a staggering 343% increase in transaction fees, which have risen from $1.99 per transaction on April 26 to a current … Read more
Apart from trying to get rid of cheating and bots, Stepn is also working to limit its platform’s availability for users in mainland China. Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Developers have suggested changing Solana’s current data transfer protocol UDP to QUIC, stake-weighted transaction processing and a fee-based transaction priority. Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
The international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has vowed to attack Russian government websites over the recent Ukraine invasion. So far Anonymous says that it hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense database and various state-operated television channels in Russia. Additionally, a spokesperson from Russia Today (RT) said that after Anonymous’ recent statement, RT websites were … Read more
Solana reportedly went offline for four hours on Jan. 4, however Solana.Status shows there have been no issues on the network. Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
The attack comes just one week after a U.K. court ordered the website to stop hosting the Bitcoin white paper. Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
StormWall analyzed the statistics of DDoS attacks conducted against its customers in Q1 2021. StormWall, an international provider of solutions for protection against DDoS attacks, presents an analysis of the statistics of attacks recorded in Q1 2021. The statistics reflect the established attempts of DDoS attacks against StormWall customers from different countries of the world, … Read more
Threat actors have been finding opportunities in bitcoin’s bullish trend to increase their extortion campaigns. Hackers are actively threatening companies with DDoS attacks unless they pay for bitcoin ransoms. Bull Run Prices Push Extortionists to Increase Bitcoin Ransom Demands According to an alert issued by security firm Radware, there have been several reports between December … Read more
One of the world’s largest darknet markets (DNM), Empire Market, allegedly exit scammed after the marketplace was taken offline for a number of days this week. DNM patrons are upset about Empire Market’s departure and customers say that $30 million in bitcoin held by the darknet’s admins has been stolen. Three days ago news.Bitcoin.com reported … Read more
