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A wave of cryptojacking attacks seems to get bigger as the world is trying to get out of lockdown. A new malware called “Lucifer” is capable of both engaging a device in mining and performing DDoS attacks.

Despite the interest in bitcoin as well as other cryptocurrencies has grown rapidly, there are still lots of people that are cautious about it. While faithful adepts of the crypto industry argue that cautiousness is caused by the lack of awareness, there might also be other reasons for the lack of trust.

According to the new Chinese civil code, the government has included cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) in its legally inheritable list of assets.

Recently, computer security researchers revealed that a new flaw in Intel’s SGX exposes sensitive user data to cyber criminals. The flaw in the Intel Software Guard eXtension poses a risk to cryptocurrency users can not be patched leaving users at a very high risk of losing their funds.

We bring you the methods a Bitcoin or digital currency user can use in order to get back his or her lost cryptocurrencies using a simple scenario that happened recently. Peter Schiff lost access to his bitcoins, but he figured out what the problem was. We tell his story and explain how to avoid such situations.

With the mainnet of the DAOBet blockchain now about to go live, the gaming solutions provider has now announced a Token Swap event, for all BET token holders to migrate over to the native DAOBet platform, away from the original Ethereum blockchain.

A bug on old windows computers exposes vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely mine cryptocurrency. More than 700k computers around the world are at risk of being used to mine bitcoin without the owners’ knowledge. A recent reports pins people using Windows 7 and below as being at risk.

The giant shoe producer New Balance Athletics Inc. announced on October 17 the roll out of an experimental trial to track the genuineness of its latest sports shoe with blockchain tech to offer reliance and attribution for each customer.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the United States (US) authority accountable for collecting taxes and overseeing the Internal Revenue Code, posted a sweet video on its official social media platforms about the recently issued CP2000 notices which are of interest to many blockchain users and Bitcoin traders. This is not an audit though it works the same, however, it looks like the IRS notice could cause worry for BTC and digital asset traders.