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Harry Denley, director of security at wallet provider MyCrypto, who identified the fake wallet extensions, said in a report Tuesday that Google has so far removed 49 extensions that purported to be well-known crypto wallets from its Chrome Web Store. The fake extensions are basic phishing plays. Posing as legitimate wallets, they leak personal information inputted by users, such as private keys and passwords, to the hacker, who can then drain balances in a matter of seconds. The fakes detected have so far claimed to be wallets such as Ledger, Trezor, Jaxx, Electrum, MyEtherWallet, MetaMask, Exodus, and KeepKey. Test amounts of crypto sent by Denley have not been picked up, suggesting that either the hacker has to manually empty wallets or that they are only interested in comparatively large balances. On the Chrome Web Store, most of these apps had consistently good reviews written typically in simplistic or broken English. On the basis that the admin email appears to be a Rus...

Huobi Korea announced on April 8 that they might be ending support for Monero (XMR) trading starting on April 9, 2020. They stated that this was thanks to "low trading volumes and anonymity functions". They didn't , however, reference the recent Nth room case, during which South Korean media has speculated the exploitation ring used XMR to finish anonymous transactions. According to the South Korean newspaper, Sisa Journal, headlines covering the sexual exploitation case remained rampant within the country, with many news outlets suggesting that Monero has been used for criminal acts, specifically within the Nth case. The quoted case is an ongoing criminal investigation that allegedly involved sexual exploitation and therefore the distribution of videos containing rapes among Telegram chat rooms. Bithumb still lists XMR in South Korea despite the reports Sisa Journal is additionally reporting that another cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, has been struggling for...

While worldwide joblessness keeps hitting new highs in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the cryptographic money industry is stepping in to protect work misfortunes, with some of the most significant organizations inside the space declaring their aim to contract new representatives.  Binance, the world's biggest cryptographic money trade, has recently declared that it's looking to lease very 100 new workers, regardless of the proceeded with monetary downturn.  In an April 3 tweet, Binance welcomed individuals round the world to make a profession inside the Blockchain space, offering a significant chance to "telecommute" as worldwide purview keep fortifying isolate measures.  Binance CEO and originator, Changpeng Zhao, in this manner carried further regard for Binance's procuring binge by tweeting:  “Getting used to work from home, but hate your job? Good at what you do and passionate about crypto? You know what to do.” Binance to broaden its staf...