SECURITY PSA: Do not send coins to your Ledger at this time - [Investigating] We're currently facing a major performance issue on our API. Our engineer team is currently investigating the problem. This incident will be updated as we get more information. http://status.ledger.fr/ |
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Kasisto Is Monero’s Working Point-of-Sale Solution https://themerkle.com/kasisto-is-moneros-working-point-of-sale-solution/Ensuring that cryptocurrencies will be embraced by the masses will not be an easy feat. In fact, most merchants have shown very little interest in anything related to cryptocurrencies. Developing new PoS solutions for in-store cryptocurrency payments is an opportunity well worth exploring. For Monero, it seems such a solution is almost ready. Known as Kasisto, this new tool seems to pack a lot of punch under the hood..... |
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The Account Property Bundler How your users can submit zero fee transactions https://medium.com/@lyaffe/the-account-property-bundler-e70734859e26Bundling is the process of packaging multiple child chain transactions into a single ChildChainBlock transaction on the parent chain. A simple explanation of this process is provided in our wiki In Ardor version 2.0.13 released today we improved the UI of the bundler page to make it easier to use. We now separate all the known bundlers of the node from the bundlers started by the current account and limit the bundlers listed, to the current chain, and sort them by rate.  However, what if you are a business (think exchange, pegged chain, merchant, crowd sale) and you want to allow zero transaction fees for your child chain users? If you setup a zero fee bundler it will bundle all this child chain transactions not only your users transactions. We had to somehow allow bundlers to filter out transactions they don’t want to bundle. The initial release of Ardor included a PersonalBundler which when configured bundles only the transactions submitted by the bundler account itself. However exchanges need more flexibility, for example if an exchange has separate accounts for Ardor, Ignis, BitSwift and so one. It makes a lot of sense for the account holding the Ardor to perform the bundling for the withdrawal transaction submitted for the child chains. Since this account is practically guaranteed to always be able to pay the Ardor transaction fees necessary for bundling. This is where the Account Property Bundler comes into play. As explained in the 2.0.13 changelog: “Added AccountPropertyBundler add-on, which only bundles transactions sent by accounts having the “bundling” property set on them by the bundler. To enable, set nxt.bundlingFilter=nxt.addons.AccountPropertyBundler. This will apply to all bundlers started on this node.” You can see below how account ARDOR-V4D7-D3XW-JX9Z-EAC8K set account properties on two other accounts. Once this account will setup the configuration and start a bundler, it will only bundle transactions submitted by one of these accounts.  It goes without saying that this an advanced feature which is only relevant for businesses who need more control over the bundling process. If you just want to bundle transactions for a specific chain, you can simply start a bundler and provide the child per parent exchange rate. Summary The unique parent-child chain architecture of Ardor, enables businesses to bundle zero fee transactions so that their users no longer need to pay transaction fees. This unique function, available only in Ardor, finally allows decentralized applications to reach main stream adaption. |
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IOTA (MIOTA) Part Of Ongoing Blockchain Business Camp, Tokyo https://iota-news.com/iota-miota-part-of-ongoing-blockchain-business-camp-tokyo/IOTA (MIOTA) Part of Ongoing Blockchain Business The City of Tokyo’s main goal is to become the epitome of technology and finance. To achieve this goal, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is working to push blockchain technology into both financial and non-financial aspects of the city. In tune to the above, TMG launched the Blockchain Business Camp which is a two month intensive course to help generate ground breaking innovations to improve the lives of Tokyo residents and achieve the goal of Tokyo sailing to become a technology and financal giant. The roadmap or program schedule for the event just shows how the Japanese value procedure and dedication. To begin with, a foreign company would have had to apply to attend the Business Camp between 20th October and the deadline of 24th November, 2017. After which, the TMG would select the worthy companies and announce them on the 15th of December. The then selected companies would then fly over to Japan by early January for a pre-seminar on the 15th of the same month. The pre-seminar would coincide with a networking event on the same day with some mentoring and business meetings. The second networking event at the Blockchain Business Camp is scheduled for the 23rd of this month; with a third on the 16th of March. During this period, there will also be business meetings, networking, mentoring and opportunities for companies to pitch their ideas to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It so happens that the IOTA (MIOTA) Team was successful in getting selected to attend this prestigious course and event. Although this is not a confirmation of a partnership with the city of Tokyo, one can only imagine the possibilities of an IOTA network being used in a large, busy, exciting metropolitan city such as Tokyo. - Advertisement - The network can be used to connect all the transit systems (rail and road); all the traffic lights that govern both systems; the flashy lights that are a characteristic of the City; the famous sleeping capsules of Japan; all CCTV cameras in the city; even automated sprinkler systems. The IOTA (MIOTA) Team have to pitch their ideas and network in a manner similar to the Last Battle of the 300 Spartans! Earlier reports had claimed this Business Camp was an official announcement of a partnership with the city of Tokyo. However, this can only be a possibility during or after the Business Camp. Other noteworthy attendees of the Business Camp are: Honda Motor Company Limited, SBI Holdings Incorporated, Toyota Motor Corporation and Sony Cooperation. To digress a bit, the CEO of SBI Holdings has quoted Ripple (XRP) as being the new coin to replace Bitcoin in a December 12thTweet that said, ‘Wow, XRP at all time high! Forget about Bitcoin, we’re all in on XRP!’ This tweet was translated to mean that SBI Holdings will be using Ripple Technology and possibly XRP coins in their bank to bank money transfers. Although Ripple’s transaction costs are very low ($0.0004), the IOTA coin transactions are free. This might not mean much, but when you are transacting thousands of transactions per day, the Ripple fees will add up by the end of the year and cut into the banking profits of SBI Holdings. For every 1,000,000 transactions made using the Tangle Network of IOTA, the banks will save $400 as compared to using Ripple. This Business Camp will be an opportunity for IOTA to convince SBI Holdings that the Tangle Network is the better option due to ZERO fees. The Tangle Network can also have useful applications for Honda, Toyota and Sony. Therefore, the IOTA team needs to take this Business Camp as an opportunity to meet and mingle with these business giants and possibly get a huge partnership announcement by the end of March, 2018. This will then provide the much needed boost for the rice of the IOTA (MIOTA) coin on the exchanges. |
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TRON’s First Beta Version — Exodus Will Be Launched on March 31 Today, TRON officially announced the latest progress of the project development, showing that the main network functions were all set and it will be launched on March 31. This should be the second important upgrade after the open source on December 29, 2017.  We also learned from Chen Zhiqiang, the leader of TRON’s technical department that during the R&D of main net, it integrated the advantages of multiple blockchain systems and proposed and realized the following core functions: 1. With UTXO-based trading models, history transactions can be transparently tracked through the public ledger. UTXO boots concurrent processing capability and enhances network performance. Create the concept of transaction account that is in consistent with real-world application through abstraction based on UTXO technology. 2. Achieve over 1 thousand transactions per second with PoS-based TBFT consensus mechanism which adjusts the account takers of a transaction according to the speed and delay of the block. 3. Support ultra-low fee transfer (10e-6 TRX per transfer). 4. Provide a secure execution environment for smart contract byte-code with TRON virtual machine (TVM). TVM has following advantages: lightweight, fast loading, resource isolation, high scalability etc. 5. Support smart contracts written in programming languages such as Java. Compile them into TVM byte-code with TRON compiler for high execution performance. 6. Provide common ABCI (Application BlockChain Interface) with consensus engine and Blockchain state machine loosely-coupled architecture. 7. Provide distributed network management and monitoring utilities. Visualize TRON operations and performance to easily track the status and potential risks. The founder of TRON, Justin Sun noted that, “First, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you, for your attention and support to TRON and for your trust in our team; and to our developers as well, for their strenuous development work. With unremitting efforts of TRON’s technical team, the test for TRX main network is about to start. The launch of main net this time will be a vital node in TRON’s development history. But this won’t be an end. TRON is a blockchain operating system we built to bring the original intention of Internet and to realize decentralization. We believe in the three major values, which are also the foundation for Internet 4.0: trustworthy decentralized applications, block chain enabled smart contracts and digital values that everyone can access and distribute. Centering on TRON, people will obtain a global-scale free-content entertainment system, from which the entire decentralized Internet ecosystem will be stretched out. We will continue to upgrade and optimize our main network from security, scalability, privacy, user experience and other aspects and finally provide better services to our partners and developers. We welcome TRON’s believers and supporters worldwide to join us and witness our future together.” |
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Just so you guys know, there has been a flood of lost funds and concerns from people using Ledger products, even from the creator of the NEO Ledger app. Support is insulting customers who complain. by MaxMusa https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7scwsw/just_so_you_guys_know_there_has_been_a_flood_of/I don't think ledger is unsafe to use at the moment, at least I sincerely hope not as I am a customer. However, the recent surge of similar stories of people losing funds, combined with these completely antagonistic attitude of the CTO combined with nonexistent support, and the total censorship of any attempt to crowdsource data on the issue, is a BIG RED FLAG. I hope people don't downvote this post thinking it's an attack on ledger, it's just a big problem with recent actions and hopefully things will be clarified and explained soon - or even better, the problem fixed. Hell, the NEO app developer already suggested a possible fix for the most common issue reported. Many reports of incorrect public addresses being generated, users completely losing funds https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7rd798/should_we_be_concerned_about_the_ledger/Recent article about ledger security here https://medium.com/@lucasmzanella/how-ledgers-security-model-could-be-used-to-rob-exchanges-targeted-users-or-just-go-wrong-and-a20f7e02dc04Just for those saying it's only noobs who have concerns, read this comment thread (including the downvoted replies) from the developer of the NEO ledger app and the guy working on the raiblocks ledger app. https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7rimlg/that_sweet_sweet_relief_achieved_once_all_of_your/dsxudzr/The CTO is getting heated and basically saying he is sick of dealing with the useless people (aka customers) in virtually every reply. Being very snarky. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7rz76t/whats_going_on_with_the_fees_in_bitcoin_cash/dt2dub5/https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7s2cjv/theres_a_batch_of_faulty_nano_s_and_ledger_seem/dt1vwys/https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7s2cjv/theres_a_batch_of_faulty_nano_s_and_ledger_seem/dt1vmx8/Complaints about the problems on Ledger official Forums are getting completely deleted and censored, almost as soon as they are posted, an example here https://np.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7s2cjv/theres_a_batch_of_faulty_nano_s_and_ledger_seem/dt1qj0y/To top it all off, some nanos are straight up fucking melting https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7riczy/melted_ledger_nano_s/ |
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Achain Showcases its Collaborative Platform at BTCMiami https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/achain-showcases-its-collaborative-platform-at-btcmiami-300585739.htmlMIAMI, Jan. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami has apparently witnessed the "hottest" winter ever in its history, as thousands of Bitcoin enthusiasts had gathered at James L Knight Center for the North American Bitcoin Conference (NABC) on Jan 18 and 19. Known as BTCMiami, the conference was organized by the UAE-based Keynote, who has successfully led 12 blockchain and cryptocurrency events worldwide since 2012. Achain, one of the world's leading public blockchain platforms, had its spokesperson Kyle Lu share the basic principles as well as recent updates of its forking theory.   Enjoying a reputation in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain, NABC has been attracting company representatives, economists, researchers, and media operatives. Even a mobile app was particularly created for the sole purpose of networking among the conference attendees. The forking theory outlines Achain's vision of a collaborative blockchain system -- something that is rather divergent from the competitiveness and exclusiveness that most blockchain solutions tend to emphasize. That being said, under a mutual agreement from all participants (namely, the VEP), Achain fosters a full range of free communication, such as requesting, approving, executing, and returning feedback (mandatory for all constituent nodes). Kyle Lu, vice president of Achain, has also founded ICO Star, a global crypto-asset investment platform. Meanwhile being a serial entrepreneur in big data and mobile internet, Kyle Lu is making waves in business transformation and disruptive technology adoption. As of now, Achain serves as a foundation for multiple blockchain-based services and individual programs. It already runs more than 50 smart contracts and 30 digital assets. Later at the event, Achain opened up a Q&A booth to make its technology intelligible and accessible to its potential partners and the crowd. The project's management executives regard the North American market as the team's next strategic step. Over the recent months, it had already grown its presence in Southeast Asia, particularly with the launching of Indonesian-based DAPP project Pundi X at Blockshow Asia 2017 in Singapore. |
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Cryptocurrency Vault - What is going on with VeChain (VEN) & Achain (ACT)? by cryptomagic https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptomagic/cryptocurrency-vault-what-is-going-on-with-vechain-ven-and-achain-act....Achain (ACT) I already gave a very brief introduction to Achain just over a week ago HERE, so I'm going to move on from first impressions and cut to exactly how I'm seeing this product as it stands today. I will consider making up a specific post to share the due diligence I've collected at a later time, but for now, let's get into what I think the opportunity is. First things first, there are what I feel are two considerable risks with Achain. I can't secure it on a hardware wallet, so has to be paper wallet for max security (meh, had a few of those thrown in the bin by accident already) Although everything points to it being well established, adopted and far from a lemon (something of no actual value), it is just very difficult to find the types of information you would normally like to see to get truly comfortable with it. (That is probably why it's currently so undervalued). GitHub doesn't have an awful lot going on, but I'm aware that it's possible to have other repositories outside of this. I won't mince words, I think Achain offers similar products as NEO, ARK, Ethereum, Qtum, ICON and any other platform doing the rounds right now and it looks like a very convincing contender. One of the main differences however is that Achain is actively encouraging Hard Forks and although Asia seems to know a lot about it, us in the west are just waking up asking "what the hell is this and where did it come from?". It trades at the time of writing for $0.45 with 300 million ACT in circulation and has a maximum supply of 1 billion. That gives it a market capitalisation of just $136,924,200 which I think is pennies for a crypto platform that is working product and does what most do in the billionaires club! It runs the same transactions per second (TPS) as Neo and has more dApps than any competitor apart from Ethereum. It also facilitates side chains to avoid congestion on the main chain (I bet Vitalik is kicking himself he didn't think of that one...)  If you hold ACT, you will receive forked currency each time the platform is used to create a new chain and currency. I tried my very best to find out if you would earn passive compound interest for holding ACT outside of the fork bonus, but unfortunately came up relatively blank. It looks like the RDPOS mechanism puts the validation onto the creator and user of the side chain rather than allowing the main chain to become bloated with transactions (similar to how Ark plans to put their VM on side chains for the very same reasons), so there is no fee for running a node to be had. (I will continue looking into this though as I'm really unclear on how RDPOS works). If correct, what that means is that the benefit to holding ACT is that you will get random drops of forked cryptocurrencies along with the potential price upside if it happened to gain wider attention and adoption in the west. For all I see, it is basically a hybrid that fits somewhere between Ark and Neo and appears to be doing everything it should except for climb in price and ultimately market capitalisation. I particularly like one of the Achain partners Pundi X. Definitely check out what they are doing HERE. Kcash, another partner also doesn't look too bad!  As you'll see from the 8hr ACT/BTC chart below, the recent ABTC hard fork airdrop to holders of Achain encouraged some serious buying action to claim the coins, then a dramatic selloff afterwards. Personally the selloff is perfect because I was completely unprepared for this beforehand. In the short-term, this might be ok to flip occasionally, but longer-term it looks like a really strong product you can get a decent stake in now, and that will continue to keep giving after each fork.  At $0.45, I'm seeing a lot of potential upside, so I think this is one that has been badly misunderstood, underrated and undervalued by the western markets it's now penetrating into. There is another review of it HERE that gives an overview and assesses the potential upside. |
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WePower: Green Energy on the Blockchain https://medium.com/@idhasitha/wepower-green-energy-on-the-blockchain-2f7ceead182bExecutive SummaryWePower is a green energy trading platform backed by blockchain. Nicola Martiniyuk is the co — founder and CEO of WePower. For the last ten years he has been working in the energy industry, building energy and solar plants and selling green energy to the final consumers. Knowing the energy business from inside out he predicts that the green energy revolution is needed more than ever. The world still runs on dirty energy. Changing this from top down is difficult and can take decades to bear fruits. The current investments structure has too many bottlenecks that has slowed down investments into renewable energy significantly.  WePower will change renewable energy market from bottom up by connecting green energy producers directly with households and investors. Their platform enables renewable energy producers to raise capital by issuing their energy own tokens. These tokens represent energy that is committed to be produced in the future. As a result energy producers can trade directly with green energy buyers and raise capital by selling energy upfront. WePower is directly integrated with the energy grid and wholesale energy markets. It enables transparent energy accounting and a new generation of digital utility services. They are currently piloting a nationwide energy data tokenization in Estonia. WePower token sale contributors will receive a native digital WPR token which will give priority pass to green energy auctions and will constantly accrue energy donated by producers connected to the WePower platform. WPR token holders can use this energy for their own usage or sell it on the WePower platform at any time. WePower has already secured necessary partnerships from the current industry players to start energy trading immediately. WePower has a pipeline of renewable energy projects waiting for energy investments. This enables them to them to be operational within 9 months in Spain and further expand to Germany, Italy, Greece and Portugal. Crowdsale funding will be used for global expansion. IntroductionWePower will enable renewable energy producers to raise their capital by producing their own tokens. Each token will represent the amount of energy the producer promises to deliver. It is in fact similar to KWH Coin platform because 1 kWh of energy is equal to 1 token in the WePower platform too. The tokenization of energy will increase the reach of investment since this is happening on a global scale. Tokenized energy is the bridge between the energy producer and the energy buyer. The holders of WPR tokens will have instant access to the specific auctions of the token issuing companies once the power plant is connected to the network.  WePower has entered the market at the most suitable time ever with the increased demand for green energy and with the rising effects of global warming along with the high competition of the energy market. The high competition ensures that a huge amount of green energy producers will be taking part in WePower trading platform. Unlike any other energy companies, WePower did not just issue a token… It invented its own platform which is already developed. You can give a try on their demo version in their official website. A fully open, decentralized platform and tokenized energy means that will open the energy market to a huge quantity of investors. With WePower it will revolutionize how green energy producers will find capital for their projects. With the old model producers have to wait a long period of time until they find investors or money lenders but with the revolutionary new WePower energy trading platform producers just have to issue token auction of their own and a multitude of investors will be waiting in the queue to purchase your token. So it means your waiting period until the project becomes a success is greatly reduced. How the Green Energy Donation pool works? First off the owner or the project developer of the renewable energy project will announce plans to plant a token sale in the WePower trading platform and then will issue the energy tokens. Exactly 0.9% of these energy tokens are instantly put in to the investor’s pools. Only those with WPR tokens have access to these pools. Once the plant is completed construction and it starts producing energy all the holders of the WPR token can use this energy for their own purpose or cash out or reconsider investing into the pool.  WPR TokensThe official ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is commencing on 1st of February, 2018. Exactly 155696 folks are counting fingers and waiting for the WePower token sale. The current token exchange rate is that 1 ETH is equal to 400 WPR. The company do have a minimum contribution of 200 USD. You can transfer ETH to their address. WePower token is a revolutionary token in many ways. It is shaped to grow together with the WePower business. Why? It stores tangible value and ensures liquidity. Every renewable energy producer using WePower. Every renewable energy producer using WePower donates part of the produced energy to the WPR token holders. All WPR tokens constantly accrue this energy. Tokens accumulate real value in the energy form. With the secured partnerships, WePower will start its activities and our tokens will collect energy immediately. You can use this energy for your personal needs or sell it to someone else. This way even contributors from places where WePower doesn’t operate can participate in the platform. Together with constant collection of donated energy, WPR tokens also provide priority right to invest in new renewable energy projects and in exchange receive energy at most favorable price. This will further increase the demand of the tokens from the large energy buyers. WePower token is the new player in the global energy market which is valued 242 billion USD right now. Website https://wepower.network/Whitepapper https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9QClujD9ilRSGVxMXcwdUstN0E/viewTwitter https://twitter.com/WePowerN |
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Better be smart than sorry. The Qlink ICO is over, even if Neon supports a function to participate in a token sale. by barcoe https://np.reddit.com/r/Qlink/comments/7s1arm/better_be_smart_than_sorry_the_qlink_ico_is_over/?st=JCPGSSQ7&sh=5573c31bThe new version of Neon supports a function to participate in a token sale (ICO). CoZ made it easy for Neo holders to send tokens in a toke sale event. However - this functionality is not disabled for tokens where the sale is over. This means if you send NEO today, thus after the ICO has ended, your tokens will be lost. Here is an extract from the disclamer on the Neon token sale page: If you send NEO/GAS to a token sale that has already ended, you will lose your NEO/GAS and will not be refunded. So better be smart than sorry. |
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Tron.Live had an interview session with Game.com CEO — Xu Le. We talked a lot about blockchain and how the future of blockchain gaming will be. https://medium.com/@TronDotLive/tron-live-had-an-interview-session-with-game-com-9e09e0b36e17TronLive: Hello Xu Le, although we already know each other, can you give us a brief introduction of yourself, so that our readers can have a better understanding of you? My name is Xu Le, an entrepreneur from China. I started entrepreneur activities since I joined Tsinghua University in year 2000. I paused my studies in ’02 so I can stay focus on my entrepreneur journey. So, this is my 18th years in entrepreneurship, with 10 years in Internet business and 8 years in gaming industry. One of my most memorable event is during 2012–2014 which I led my development team and move towards the global mobile gaming field. We made it to the Top 5 in casino gaming field worldwide. We are known as “TOPGAME” that time and I believed a lot of Australia, US, UK and Canada mobile gamers have played the game we made before, it’s called Titan Slots. In fact, during these years, I have also invested in around 30–40 companies. An example is a company called verlocal.com which is based in San Francisco, US that empower local experts to offer activities, classes, events, services, workshops, and handmade products on a single platform. We also made friends with a lot of partners along the way, this also includes our good friends’ companies and companies in the gaming field that we came across during those years. This eventually resulted in long mutually beneficial business relationship. So, the business we are practising is on a global level, not focused or limited to any specific countries at all. TronLive: Your company and the projects you invested in sounds interesting! I’m sure a lot of people would like to get to know about you and learn what you have in store for us. Since the beginning of this year, TronLive has been collecting unanswered questions and doubts from users on numerous online communities, forums and chat rooms. The user base includes TronLive supporters, tweeters, discord players, Tron and Game.com supporters as well as one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency community — Tronix subreddit, which has over 53,000 members and growing. TronLive has also collaborated with Tronix subreddit mods and compiled some questions that may be extremely useful for the community members. We hope you can clear these questions for us, so more people will get to know Tron and Game.com better. Do you want to have a word with your supporters before we move on? First of all, I am really thankful, grateful, and appreciate all of this, and I am really happy that we all get along well in this new era. A futuristic era of cryptocurrencies and we are all early explorers of this new world. There are many talented individuals in this field who are brave to march, strive and work to achieve all of these. We can look back at our first generation cryptocurrency like bitcoin, or later generations of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, EOS or Tron. These are all great in itself. However, I think that this new world still lacks content and entertainment. This is the reason why we bring in game.com so that we can provide gaming and entertainment services to everyone, and add vitality to this field. More interesting content and activities will be introduced in the blockchain field.... |
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securityEvrial Trojan Switches Bitcoin Addresses Copied to Windows Clipboard https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/evrial-trojan-switches-bitcoin-addresses-copied-to-windows-clipboard/A new information stealing Trojan called Evrial is being sold on criminal forums and being actively distributed in the wild. Like most infostealing Trojans, Evrial can steal browser cookies and stored credentials, but this Trojan also has the ability to monitor the Windows clipboard for certain text, and if detected, modify it to something else. First discovered and tracked by security researchers MalwareHunterTeam and Guido Not CISSP, by monitoring the Windows clipboard for certain strings, Evrial makes it easy for attackers to hijack cryptocurrency payments and Steam trades. This is done by replacing legitimate payment addresses and URLs with addresses under the attacker's control. Evrial takes control of the Windows clipboard Evrial's most interesting feature is that it will monitor the Windows clipboard for certain types of strings and replace them with ones sent by the attacker. This allows the attacker to reroute a cryptocurrency payment to an address under their control. While clipboard monitoring is common with programs like this, MalwareHunterTeam has told BleepingComputer that modifications are much more rare. For example, bitcoin addresses are not the easiest string of text to type into a program or website. Due to this, when someone sends bitcoins to an exchange or wallet, they typically copy the address that the coins should be sent to into the Windows clipboard and then paste that address into the other app or site that is performing the sending.
When Evrial detects a bitcoin address in the clipboard, it replaces that legitimate address with one under the attacker's control. The victim then pastes that address into their app, thinking its the legitimate one and not realizing its been replaced, and clicks send. Now when the bitcoins are sent, they go to the attackers address rather than your intended recipient.Evrial is configured to detects strings that correspond to Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, WebMoney, Qiwi addresses and Steam items trade urls. Evrial steals passwords documents In addition to monitoring and modifying the clipboard, Evrial will also steal bitcoin wallets, stored passwords, documents from the victim's desktop, and a screenshot of the active windows. All of this information will be compiled into a zip file and uploaded to the attackers web panel ..............
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