Coincheck Hack Ghosts $534 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency

Following the recent hack of Japanese exchange service Coincheck, $534 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the company’s “hot wallet”. With the investigation revealing that hackers remained undetected for an estimated eight hours on Jan. 25, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) warned the exchange service to set up improvements that prevent or limit […]

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SCMagazine’s Innovator Award for Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection Marks Solution Milestone

Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection recently won the SCMagazine Innovator Award, marking the fact that truly groundbreaking security technologies have started to receive validation from the market, as traditional security solutions fail to cope with the ever-increasing complexity of advanced threats.

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Over $400,0000 worth of Stellar Lumen Cryptocurrency Stolen in BlackWallet DNS Hijack

Following a recent hijack of BlackWallet’s DNS server, hackers have allegedly stolen almost 670,000 Lumens from users’ wallets, estimated to be worth around $400,000. BlackWallet.co is a web-based wallet application that lets users manage their Stellar Lumen Cryptocurrency (XLM). The DNS hijack allowed cybercriminals to redirect victims to an attacker-controlled server, from which they could […]

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Google’s CPU Patch Builds Software ‘Trampolines’ that ‘Negligibly’ Impact Performance

Following the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, Google engineers developed a new chip-level patch that specifically addresses one of the three issues, namely the “Branch target injection” that’s also referred to as “Spectre”. Dubbed “Retpoline”, which is derived from “return” and “trampoline”, Google’s software construct is supposed to isolate indirect […]

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Bitdefender Joins Xen Project Advisory Board

Bitdefender has been named an Advisory Board member for the Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project formed of major cloud companies, virtualization providers, enterprises and silicon vendors that advise and support development of Xen Project software for cloud computing, embedded, IoT use-cases, automotive and security applications.

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