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GUEST INTERVIEW: OKX is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. It also provides Web3 services. Lennix Lai, the Chief Commercial Officer, tells us all about it and why it's launching locally in Australia.

GUEST RESEARCH: As of October 2023, researchers at Bitdefender Labs have been actively keeping tabs on steam-jacking attacks against high-profile YouTube accounts used to conduct myriad crypto doubling scams.

Australian digital currency exchange Independent Reserve and Bitcoin.com.au have integrated PayPal services to offer both deposits and withdrawals for customers.

GUEST RESEARCH: Extortion attacks, which are an increasingly common form of email scams, threaten the victim with compromising information, such as an embarrassing photo, and request payment in a cryptocurrency to prevent the information from being released. Attackers often purchase victims’ login credentials or find them through data breaches to “prove” that their threat is legitimate.

If you receive an email send from your own address to yourself, you can be sure that the bitcoin demand they make is bogus.

A man who stole bitcoin worth US$3.36 billion (A$5.19 billion) at the time of the theft, from the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web in 2012, has now admitted he was guilty of wire fraud.

NFT (non-fungible token) transactions will rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027 as brands leverage the metaverse to boost digital growth, forecasts Juniper Research.

COMPANY NEWS: The fiat-crypto payment provider, Alchemy Pay, has partnered with Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce. The partnership will integrate Forter’s solutions and add an invaluable layer of security to Alchemy Pay transactions. Forter will enable Alchemy Pay to offer higher payment approval rates and chargeback guarantees that benefits both clients and users.

Freelancing, crowdsourcing ad online job marketplace Freelancer.com has released its quarterly Fast 50 index for Q1 2022 which reveals that based on data from 351,000 jobs posted on its website during quarter one, jobs for NFTs were the leading growth category, seeing a 37% increase from 2,045 to 2,814 jobs in total. 

Ubiquiti, a maker of wireless LAN and WiFi routers and access points, has filed a case against former Washington Post employee Brian Krebs, who publishes a security blog, alleging that he falsely accused the company of "covering up" a cyberattack by intentionally misleading customers about "a so-called data breach and subsequent blackmail attempt in violation of US federal law and SEC regulations".

The Bitcoin price is likely to hit US$50,000 before the end of this month amid rising geopolitical tensions and growing institutional investments, predicts the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

Well known and popular comparison site Finder is giving away an incredible $200,000 in Bitcoin to Australians who download the free Finder app and join the Bitcoin Drop Party, but sadly, those in the ACT are unable to join the party this time around.

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly taken over on the weekend and a message about bitcoin being distributed to the entire country posted on it.

A recent report maps the price of electricity in every country around the world.

The Commonwealth Bank has joined with cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis to offer customers the ability to buy, sell and and hold cryptocurrency assets.

The Feitian JuBiter wallet is a radical new product from the hardware security company, already well known for its FIDO2 keys, that provides a highly secure cryptocurrency wallet you can carry around and pair to your devices via Bluetooth.

Australians have lost over $70 million to bogus investment scams in the first half of this year and a massive increase in losses are predicted by the end of the year, according to the consumer watchdog the ACCC.

Email mailboxes at thousands of organisations have been hit by more than 12 million spear phishing and social engineering attacks between May 2020 and June 2021, according to a new report on email security.

Global financial advisory and fintech organisation deVere Group has unveilled a new and exclusive product linked to the movements of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Despite the risks posed by Bitcoin, many Australians are still considering investing in the cryptocurrency. Men who earn $100k+ are most interested, according to a Finder report.