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This Google sister company showed you can buy a troll campaign for $250

Jun13
by on June 13, 2019 at 11:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


As social platforms continue to be threatened by state-sponsored disinformation operations, Google’s parent company Alphabet has kicked things up a notch. Jigsaw, its side-arm devoted to fighting extremism, censorship, and other forms of cyberattacks, has revealed it bought a Russian troll campaign as an experiment. It assigned it to attack a political activism website the company had specifically created for this purpose, something it did for as cheap as $250. The details, revealed by Wired’s Andy Greenberg, shows it’s not just cheap to fund such campaigns, but that it’s super easy for private individuals to buy one in order to engage…

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African insurer won’t work with ‘high-risk’ cryptocurrency mining businsesses

Jun13
by on June 13, 2019 at 10:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


We all know that banks make it difficult for blockchain businesses by denying them access to conventional banking services and accounts. Well now, it seems insurance firms are throwing a spanner in the works for cryptocurrency mining businesses in Africa. Old Mutual Insure, a pan-African insurance firm, is opting out of insuring the computer equipment used by cryptocurrency mining firms, a local news outlet reports. The insurance firm has taken the decision to refuse insurance, citing the unregulated nature of the industry, and that cryptocurrency is often associated with cybercrime as the main reasons. What’s more, as cryptocurrency mining farms…

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California man gets 10 years for selling drugs for Bitcoin on dark web

Jun13
by on June 13, 2019 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V. Selna. Aside from the prison sentence, Reeves, who pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamines and money laundering in March, will also have to pay a $15,000 fine. “On September 20, 2018, law enforcement executed a search warrant at defendant’s residence. At his residence, [Reeves] possessed not only illegal controlled substances, such as methamphetamines and oxycodone (prescribed…

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Indian police arrest 78 in Bitcoin call center scam

Jun13
by on June 13, 2019 at 8:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A call center scam that targeted US citizens and requested payment in Bitcoin has been busted by police in India resulting in the arrest of 78 people. According to a report, the Indore unit of Madhya Pradesh police’s Cyber Cell unearthed the online scam, which saw tele callers with American accents dupe US citizens. The callers claimed they were officers from the US social security unit and explain victims’ social security credentials had been used for money laundering and smuggling drugs. Then they told victims that if they failed to pay the requested amount, their social security number would be blocked…

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