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Crypto Trading volume and user signups in India have increased by up to 45% in recent weeks as a result of the steady bitcoin price and the rupee’s weakening. Bitcoin prices have been stabilising inside an increasingly narrow range this week, even as global equities and bond markets remained volatile, with signs of stress emerging in sovereign debt and currency markets. Bitcoin (BTC) has risen almost 2% in the last 30 days.

A key share of growing technology is blockchain. Blockchain technology permits entities to share information quickly and firmly while not compromising on security. The engineering blockchain has hit the marketplaces everywhere nowadays. And it’s because blockchain has many applications that deliver higher output and reliability than the traditional network. Now that many businesses have begun to experiment with the blockchain, a full new sort of marketplace is developed.

Blockchain technology has grown up in popularity in recent years. Excluding its initial application in cryptocurrency, it's currently getting used in property, healthcare, smart contracts and many other fields. The technology collects and stores information in groupings referred to as “blocks” and every block will hold a collection quantity of knowledge.

Is cryptojacking draining your resources and exposing your organization to financial and reputation damage risk? The rise in cryptojacking, which is an illegal form of mining cryptocurrency by the unauthorized use of someone’s computing resources, has reached alarming levels. According to the Google Threat Horizon report, 86% of compromised cloud instances in 2021 were used for cryptomining. That paints the picture quite clearly.

Cryptominers are one of the main cloud threats today. Miner attacks are low risk, low effort, and high reward for a financially motivated attacker. Moreover, this kind of malware can pass unnoticed because, with proper evasive techniques, they may not disrupt a company’s business operations. Given all the possible elusive strategies, detecting cryptominers is a complex task, but machine learning could help to develop a robust detection algorithm.

Throughout 2022, Netskope Threat Labs found that attackers have been creating phishing pages in Google Sites and Microsoft Azure Web App to steal cryptocurrency wallets and accounts from Coinbase, MetaMask, Kraken, and Gemini. These phishing pages are linked from the comment sections of other websites, where the attacker adds multiple links to the phishing pages, likely to boost SEO and drive victims directly to these pages.