Very nice! Really Karol Ribeiro went very well. We hope that in the next events she can do even better.

FORK UPCOMING!!!

11 April 2019 (or earlier)
Kore (KORE)
Fork


more info in calendar: https://tothemoon.live/

This is a talk from Blackhat Europe 2017, but it makes a lot of sense to dig this up again since Samsung will release a phone with an embedded crypto wallet.

Let's be careful of where we keep our coins!

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Ma-How-Samsung-Secures-Your-Wallet-And-How-To-Break-It.pdf

Link taken from: https://the-infosec.com/2017/12/29/blackhat-europe-2017-conference-notes/

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Let's surf the solar waves in the moon!

  Perhaps they already have some kore address where we can send coins to them ?
  Please let us know.

Hey guys how you doing?,

New year, new surfing events for the Kore surfing team.

The first qualifier event of the year from WSL is the Florida Pro that happens from Jan 14 - 20 on Sebastian Inlet, Florida.

Silvana Lima the first female athlete in the world to be sponsored by a cryptocurrency will be there to promote Kore and give a great surfing show.



Karol Ribeiro first event of the year will start in Australia and as soon i have more details i will share with the Kore community, the surfing community in Australia likes Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies a lot and they have the Surfers Paradise in Queensland where they have Bitcoin Atm´s and some stores there accepts Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.



We will be setting the Kore booth on the beach on some of those big surfing events to giveaway some freebies and spread the good word about Kore, Bitcoin, privacy and security.

As soon i have the info on the events we will be attending i will share with the community, i hope to see you guys there.

Wanna wish a great week to everyone.

Go Kore, Go BTC.

Cheers.

The "Proof of Keys" event is tomorrow on January 3rd.
This event is to encourage people to take possession of their crypto holdings
rather than leaving them on an exchange.
HitBTC had already frozen people accounts before this event and the fear is
that HitBTC may not have liquidity, meaning they don't have the BTC and other coins
to give their customers if too many pull their crypto off the exchange.
People have been talking that some exchanges may be frozen or die.
Frankly I agree with this idea of pulling off what they can afford to pull off
from exchanges if you can learn proper storage or holding of your keys/your coins.
I for one lost lots of BTC and other crypto on a few exchanges in the past,
and know others who have also.

People are worried it could cause kind-of a bank run and then panic.
Here is a decent video discussing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qh9LfAeJU

We have been conditioned to accept the trading of convenience and even our Rights for Privacy.
Thankfully there are ones and also Bitcoin is making us aware we need to accept some inconveniences
to gain back our Rights and our Privacy and more and more people are realizing this and making changes.
The millions leaving Farcebook, Twister and Govgle. These behemoths are making the gesture
that they are concerned about your privacy and making changes but in reality their business model
depends on them continuing to steal your data/or have it stolen or sell it to corporations and
the Governmental agencies in one way or another and much of this is indirectly through overpaid contracts for other services.
The scary thing is they would love to all follow the Chinese model of forcing you to use their services and platforms.
KORE Projects aims to meet some of these pain points and we will.


MikeMike

Hey guys how is everyone doing?,

Coming here to share a couple cool articles about a new type of malware that was getting intructions from Memes on Twitter, yes you read it right Memes.

Here is a little summary of the findings.

The malware itself is relatively underwhelming: like most primitive remote access trojans (RATs), the malware quietly infects a vulnerable computer, takes screenshots and pulls other data from the affected system and sends it back to the malware’s command and control server.

What’s interesting is how the malware uses Twitter as an unwilling conduit in communicating with its malicious mothership.

Trend Micro said in a blog post that the malware listens for commands from a Twitter account run by the malware operator. The researchers found two tweets that used steganography to hide “/print” commands in the meme images, which told the malware to take a screenshot of an infected computer. The malware then separately obtains the address where its command and control server is located from a Pastebin post, which directs the malware where to send the screenshots

The malware appears to have first appeared in mid-October, according to a hash analysis by VirusTotal, around the time that the Pastebin post was first created.

But the researchers admit they don’t have all the answers, and more work needs to be done to fully understand the malware. It’s not clear where the malware came from, how it infects its victims or who’s behind it. It’s also not clear exactly what the malware is for — or its intended use in the future. The researchers also don’t know why the Pastebin post points to a local, non-internet address, suggesting it may be a proof-of-concept for future attacks.

Although Twitter didn’t host any malicious content, nor could the tweets result in a malware infection, it’s an interesting (although not unique) way of using the social media site as a clever way of communicating with malware.

The logic goes that in using Twitter, the malware would connect to “twitter.com,” which is far less likely to be flagged or blocked by anti-malware software than a dodgy-looking server.

For more information you can read articles on the links below:

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/cybercriminals-use-malicious-memes-that-communicate-with-malware/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/17/malware-commands-code-twitter-hidden-memes/

Have a great week.

Cheers