Il ransomware è qualcosa di cui “l’americano medio” è preoccupato, afferma l’ex top dog della sicurezza informatica Chris Krebs

L’ex funzionario del Dipartimento della sicurezza interna Christopher Krebs ha chiesto una maggiore supervisione governativa sulla criptovaluta ieri in un’intervista, affermando che i pagamenti anonimi sono una minaccia “per l’americano medio”.

In un’intervista a Late Night con Bill Maher , Maher ha chiesto all’ex direttore della Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency degli Stati Uniti quali fossero le sue opinioni su Bitcoin.

“Cosa succederà con Bitcoin? Dove vedi che sta andando? Questo è un po ‘nella tua zona, vedo che sta abbattendo la civiltà, ma forse sono anti-intellettuale “, ha detto Maher

“La criptovaluta è, per come la vedo io, uno dei singoli fattori abilitanti che ha consentito ai criminali informatici di distribuire un’enorme quantità di ransomware nelle nostre agenzie statali e locali”, ha affermato Krebs. “Sono i pagamenti anonimi, la possibilità di pagare in modo anonimo. E penso che questa sia la minaccia informatica di cui si preoccupa l’americano medio “.

Maher ha osservato che 1600 scuole sono state colpite da ransomware (citando un rapporto dell’IBM ), e Krebs ha aggiunto che ci sono stati anche attacchi contro “ospedali e agenzie governative, voglio dire, Baltimora è stata colpita due volte, Atlanta, contea del Meclemburgo settentrionale Carolina, 23 contee del Texas, la Louisiana è stata colpita un paio di volte “.

“E vogliono solo soldi. Non è niente di sofisticato, questo non è ideologico ”, ha risposto Maher, confrontando – in modo sconcertante – gli attacchi ransomware alla trama del film Die Hard . (Poco dopo, Krebs si riferì erroneamente alla fittizia Nakatomi Plaza come “Torre Nakasomi”).

Krebs ha continuato avvertendo che i “cattivi” si scatenano se non ci sono “conseguenze”

Ha raccomandato di “guardare” le criptovalute nei portafogli di scambio, facendo pressione sui paesi che i criminali informatici chiamano a casa per reprimere le attività illegali rivolte agli Stati Uniti e aiutare i governi statali e locali a migliorare le loro difese.

Il ransomware è in aumento negli ultimi anni , probabilmente contribuendo a un problema di immagine nello spazio delle criptovalute. Un recente sondaggio indica che solo il 43% degli intervistati ritiene che la criptovaluta sia una forma di pagamento valida, e un altro del 2020 mostra che il 90% degli intervistati è “preoccupato” per le criptovalute utilizzate per riciclare denaro.

Krebs, che è salito alla ribalta dopo essere stato licenziato dall’ex presidente Donald Trump a causa del rifiuto esplicito di Krebs delle teorie del complotto per frode elettorale, potrebbe allineare le sue opinioni pubblicamente dichiarate con l’opinione popolare in preparazione per una corsa alle elezioni. L’ex burocrate ha anche lanciato proposte politiche come investimenti in programmi di difesa informatica e istruzione statali e locali.

Nothing is Impossible for Bitcoin – More or less inspired predictions regarding the future value of Bitcoin are legion, and all the wildest assumptions are made. While a few months ago some analysts predicted a dying Bitcoin collapsing to $ 0 (sic), now entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano is predicting a 7-digit price. But the opposite would have surprised, is not it?

Pompliano defends Bitcoin on TV

On January 7, Anthony Pompliano was guest of Melissa Lee on CNBC. During his speech, the entrepreneur notably commented on the price of Bitcoin, making a comparison with gold (classic until then).

He also takes the opportunity to share an interesting tweet :

“Bitcoin is 10 times more efficient than gold. One day, the price of Bitcoin will reach $ 1 million, which is only twice the ceiling of the gold market. ”

This is not the first time that the tech entrepreneur has appeared on television to debate economic topics and new investment methods , including cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin, an increasingly popular asset

It is already common among VIPs and large institutions to make a comparison between gold and Bitcoin, because bitcoins are rare , unlike fiat currencies.

Bitcoin is therefore also considered as a viable store of value , which could in particular protect against inflation . This argument is debatable, however, as gold has always been universally recognized as a rare and precious material. Bitcoin, meanwhile, is yet to gain widespread recognition , although its reputation is gradually improving.

As the Guardian magazine has revealed, there is a gigantic Bitcoin scam with false advertisements. Many victims come from Australia in particular. Facebook and Google are apparently hardly able to keep up with deleting the ads.

The British newspaper “The Guardian” has really succeeded in making an investigative bang

As the magazine reports on its website, there is a Bitcoin Cycle scam of almost gigantic proportions. Photos of particularly well-known personalities in the respective country were misused for fake advertisements. In Australia, the most affected country, for example, Dick Smith and Andrew Forrest. In Germany, the fraudsters apparently advertised with the likeness of tennis legend Boris Becker. As the Guardian has revealed, the traces of this globally organized business lead to the center of Moscow.

Apparently, the spread of the scams is so high that Google struggled to block all affected ads. The Australian regulatory authorities could hardly keep up. Basically, the Guardian writes, the ads are older. However, the worldwide rampant COVID-19 pandemic ensured that many people stayed at home and surfed the Internet. Therefore, there was a sharp increase in clicks on the ads.

Clicking on one of these ads leads to a fake news story. There is a link on this pretending to be a cryptocurrency investment program. After registering, victims receive a phone call asking them to invest a small amount. Calls then follow with ever higher monetary claims. Some victims would have lost all of their savings. According to the Guardian, callers are pushing to invest in high-risk and unregulated forex trading platforms that have little chance of making a profit.

The Guardian has followed the trail as far as Moscow

When it comes to blocking such fraudulent ads, Google calls it a “game of cat and mouse”. The problem: the scammers try to bypass detection by repeatedly making small changes to the text of the ads. In addition, the scammers buy hundreds of domain names each month through various registration companies to host the pages that users are directed to.

Websites are often registered on third party companies to hide the real owners. However, Guardian Australia found five names of people who had registered hundreds of the websites in question. All of them had addresses in the center of Moscow, which makes it much more difficult for foreign regulators to access. Both Google and Facebook have already admitted that it is difficult for them to prevent such ads from running in real time.

Black sheep in the form of scammers appear again and again in the Bitcoin business, whose scam also works for at least a while. A particularly big fish hit the authorities with John Bigatton , the former head of the BitConnect pyramid system. Since some scams are absolutely film-ready, it is not surprising that Hollywood is also interested in illegal business .

De Bank zei dat zelfs 1% van de activatoewijzing door grote financiële bedrijven zou resulteren in een vraag van $0,6 biljoen BTC.

JPMorgan Chase, een van ‘s werelds grootste investeringsbanken, vermeldde in een onderzoeksnota dat de recente adoptie van Bitcoin door de onderlinge levensverzekeringsmaatschappij MassMutual het potentieel voor extra institutionele vraag aangeeft. De bank voorspelde een vraag van ongeveer 600 miljard dollar voor Bitcoin in de toekomst.

Volgens de officiële nota schetste JPMorgan dat als familiekantoren, verzekeringsmaatschappijen en pensioenfondsen besluiten om een klein percentage toe te wijzen aan cryptocurrencies, dit zou resulteren in een massale vraag. In de onderzoeksnota, opgesteld door strategen, waaronder Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, wordt vermeld dat verzekeraars en pensioenfondsen te maken hebben met wettelijke hindernissen om de cryptomarkt te betreden.

“De Bitcoin-aankopen van MassMutual zijn een nieuwe mijlpaal in de adoptie van Bitcoin door institutionele beleggers. Men kan de potentiële vraag zien die de komende jaren zou kunnen ontstaan als andere verzekeringsmaatschappijen en pensioenfondsen het voorbeeld van MassMutual volgen”, aldus de notitie.

De bank verwacht dat financiële dienstverleners uit de VS, de EU, Japan en het Verenigd Koninkrijk ten minste 1% van de activa in Bitcoin zullen toewijzen, met een verwachte vraag naar Bitcoin van $0,6 biljoen.
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Bitcoin en goud

Panigirtzoglou zei dat ondanks de scheve vooruitzichten op korte termijn van de bitcoin, het beeld op lange termijn er positief uitziet. Hij voegde eraan toe dat BTC naar verwachting zal profiteren van de massale uitstroom van Gold ETF’s. “De bitcoin-stroomvooruitzichten voor de middellange tot langere termijn zien er positief uit, omdat we verwachten dat het contrasterende institutionele stroombeeld van de afgelopen twee maanden met de instroom in de Grayscale Bitcoin Trust en de uitstroom van Gold ETF’s een structurele trend zal worden. De adoptie van bitcoin door institutionele beleggers is pas begonnen,” voegde Panigirtzoglou eraan toe.

In 2017 noemde de CEO van JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, Bitcoin een oplichterij en waarschuwde hij om JPMorgan-handelaren die betrokken zijn bij de Bitcoin-handel te ontslaan. “Ik zou BTC-handelaren in een seconde ontslaan, om twee redenen: Het is tegen onze regels en ze zijn dom, en beide zijn gevaarlijk.”

Het lijkt erop dat de bank haar toon op cryptocurrencies volledig heeft veranderd.

The block chain technology is designed to provide better traceability in production.

Thales, the French defence group specialising in military and aerospace technology, intends to use the block chain technology for a new management system at its production centre in Spain.

According to an official notification dated 5 November, Thales intends to use innovative technologies such as The News Spy and Big Data to digitally transform the production centre in question.

One of the main objectives of the Paris-based group is to use block-chain technology to better meet the requirements of the transatlantic defence alliance NATO and the defence ministries of the client countries. To this end, the Communication states

“In order to comply with the requirements of NATO and the Ministries of Defence with which our company cooperates, we will use the block chain to ensure the traceability of all parts and products processed in our production and maintenance centre”.

According to the notification, the Blockchain technology will be used as part of a new management system that will be linked to all applications on the company’s own network. The new platform will efficiently link all work processes, improve communication with customers and optimise maintenance processes.

The Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to leave the position after three and a half years.

Jay Clayton, who has been Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since May 2017, will leave the agency at the end of 2021.

In its official press release, the Authority Bitcoin Up stated that Clayton is one of the directors who have held the position for the longest time. Crypto-enthusiasts are well aware of what the Authority is dealing with. The SEC has raised some of the most controversial regulatory issues surrounding the new asset class.

These included early debates on whether or not certain crypto assets should be defined as securities according to the Howey test.

As Chairman, Clayton also warned Bitcoin (BTC) investors last year that they would be “completely wrong” if they believed that the crypto currency could be traded on the major exchanges without more robust regulation.

During Clayton’s tenure, the SEC received requests for over $14 billion in financial redress. In the fiscal year 2020 alone, the amount was $4.68 billion. The authority repaid about $3.5 billion to aggrieved investors. The Commission also paid out around $565 million to informants. The largest amount paid to a single informant was 114 million US dollars. In his statement Clayton said

“The US capital market ecosystem is the strongest and most flexible in the world. Thanks to the hard work of the diverse and inclusive SEC team, we have improved investor protection, promoted capital accumulation for small and large companies and made our markets more transparent and efficient”.
The press release does not say what Clayton’s next steps will be. US Attorney General William Barr recently announced his intention to nominate Clayton as the next US Attorney General for the Southern District of New York.

Amerikaanse regering Nu een Bitcoin walvis dankzij $1 miljard Zijderoute inbeslagname

De laatste inbeslagname van activa in een criminele zaak maakt de Amerikaanse overheid een van de grootste Bitcoin-houders.

De VS heeft 69.370 Bitcoin (BTC) in beslag genomen en het equivalent daarvan in harde gevorkte penningen in een voorheen slapende Bitcoin Trader portemonnee.
Het portemonneeadres en de bezittingen waren te herleiden tot de beruchte Zijderoute marktplaats.

Het Amerikaanse Ministerie van Justitie (DoJ) heeft cryptokringen in beslag genomen van een anoniem persoon genaamd Individuele X, waaronder 69.370 Bitcoin.

De activa zijn meer dan een miljard dollar waard en behoorden tot dit adres

Dit was het op drie na grootste Bitcoin-adres van het netwerk en was tot een paar dagen geleden ongeveer vijf jaar slapend.

Blockchain-analysebedrijven hadden ontdekt dat het adres gebonden was aan Silk Road, de nu verdwenen donkere webmarkt. Onder de Code van de Verenigde Staten, Sectie 981(a)(1)(C), kan de overheid activa in beslag nemen, die te herleiden zijn tot elke overtreding die als een “gespecificeerde onwettige activiteit” wordt beschouwd.

De Zijderoute was actief tussen 2011 en 2013 en werd gebruikt om illegale goederen zoals drugs en wapens zonder vergunning uit te wisselen.

De enige vorm van betaling op de marktplaats was BTC.

Het onderzoek van de Criminal Investigation Division van de Internal Revenue Service en de U.S. The Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California stelde vast dat de hacker (individu X genoemd in het officiële rechtbankdocument) Bitcoin heeft gestolen van de Silk Road en het geld heeft overgemaakt naar bovengenoemd adres in 2013.

Terwijl het portemonnee-adres oorspronkelijk alleen Bitcoin bevatte, had het door de harde vorken extra munten ontvangen. Volgens het rechtbankdocument heeft het DoJ op 3 november beslag gelegd op activa die 69.370 Bitcoin (BTC) en equivalente hoeveelheden Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin SV (BSV) en Bitcoin Cash (BCH) bevatten.

Op het moment van drukken is het totale in beslag genomen bedrag $1,0958372 miljard.

Met de inbeslagname wordt de Amerikaanse overheid een van de grootste bezitters. Net als bij eerdere incidenten zal de BTC in bewaring bij de overheid worden verkocht op een federale veiling.