As cryptocurrencies are becoming more popular around the world, BanklessTimes.com decided to look into which countries and continents have the highest adoption rates. Our key findings: The African continent currently has approximately 53 million people who own crypto.Over a third of African cryptocurrency holders are from Nigeria.Nigeria is ranked at number 4 in the World for the amount of cryptocurrency traders.Inflation level of over 18% may be the cause of Nigerians heavy involvement with cryptocurrencies. As the Crypto Market evolves, there are increasingly more cryptocurrency holders in nations which suffer with high inflation. In retaliation to financial climates in countries such as Nigeria, individuals…
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The Los Angeles Unified School District has confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack on its IT systems over the weekend. District officials described the incident as “likely criminal in nature,” and said they were assessing the situation with law enforcement agencies. The district initially confirmed on Twitter that this was in fact a ransomware attack. The LAUSD has over 640,000 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, including Los Angeles county and 31 smaller municipalities. Schools are opening as scheduled on Tuesday despite “significant disruption to our system’s infrastructure,” the LAUSD said in a statement late Monday night.
According to Metro, One of the first images taken by Nasa’s James Webb Telescope is being used by hackers in a phishing scam. A security analytics platform, Securonix, uncovered the new computer security threat that uses the James Webb Space Telescope‘s first public image to spread malware. The attack is called ‘GO#WEBBFUSCATOR’ and reportedly starts with a phishing email containing a Microsoft Office attachment. If a receiver opens the attachment, a URL within the document’s metadata downloads a file with a script, which runs if certain Word macros are enabled. This, in turn, downloads a copy of Webb’s First Deep…
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Go-Ahead, one of the UK’s biggest transport companies, is managing an ongoing cyberattack that has affected software used to schedule bus drivers and services.
London’s biggest bus operator has encountered a cybersecurity incident. Please find comments below on this by cybersecurity expert.
The U.S NSA and CISA have shared tips to secure the software supply chain. But is this actually a step in the right direction? After the snowball effect of supply-chain attacks like the SolarWinds hack that compromised multiple U.S govt agencies (which brought about President Biden’s Executive Order on cybersecurity measures), it’s not surprising that we’re now seeing guidance on how to plug vulnerabilities in the software supply chain that nation-state-backed threat groups can easily exploit.
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