April 2025

The threat of phishing attacks and law enforcement’s role (Part 1) 2025-04-03 at 07:28 By Phishing remains one of the most pervasive and effective tools in a cybercriminal’s arsenal. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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DDoS attacks now a dominant means of waging political cyber-warfare 2025-04-03 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are outpacing many traditional cyber threats and are no longer just a tool but a “dominant geopolitical weapon,” according to network security firm Netscout. Global DDoS activity increased by 12.7% in the second

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink seeks patients globally to try its brain chips 2025-04-03 at 06:00 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Elon Musk’s computer-chip brain implant company Neuralink is seeking patients all around the world to trial its device that allows one’s thoughts to control a computer. Neuralink is looking for people with quadriplegia — those who

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OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission 2025-04-03 at 06:00 By Tobias Mann GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O’Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house’s copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o

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‘National emergency’ as Trump’s tariffs dent crypto prices 2025-04-03 at 05:22 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Crypto markets dipped after US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency and sweeping tariffs on all countries as part of his latest salvo in the ongoing trade war.  The Trump administration has hit all countries with a

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Wikipedia’s overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden 2025-04-03 at 04:20 By Thomas Claburn Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Former New York governor advised OKX over $505M federal probe: Report 2025-04-03 at 03:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Cryptocurrency exchange OKX reportedly hired former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to advise it over the federal probe that resulted in the firm pleading guilty to several violations and agreeing to pay $505 million in fines

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EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears 2025-04-03 at 03:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Big Four accounting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has changed its enterprise-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Nightfall to a zero-knowledge rollup design as it says corporate clients are more comfortable with privacy solutions with easing US

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Americans set to pay more on nearly all imports: Trump activates broad tariffs 2025-04-03 at 02:19 By Simon Sharwood Tech slugged with higher duties, base 10% hike, semiconductors exempt for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a ten percent tariff on nearly all types of imports into America, and higher levies on goods from

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Trump imposes 10% tariff on all countries, reciprocal levies on trading partners 2025-04-03 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing reciprocal tariffs on trading partners and a 10% baseline tariff on all imports from all countries. The reciprocal levies on will be approximately half of

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US lawmakers press SEC for info about Trump family-backed crypto firm 2025-04-03 at 02:04 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Two Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate and House of Representatives have called on acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mark Uyeda to preserve information regarding World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm backed by President

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Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling 2025-04-03 at 01:21 By Thomas Claburn Double-oh-sh… The name’s not Bond. It’s O’Brien – Keith O’Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Curve Finance clocks $35B trading volume in Q1 2025 2025-04-03 at 01:00 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Curve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told Cointelegraph.  Trading volumes increased more than 13% from the first

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Fidelity introduces retirement accounts with minimal-fee crypto investing 2025-04-03 at 01:00 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Fidelity, a financial services company with $5.9 trillion in assets under management, has introduced new retirement accounts that will allow Americans to invest in crypto nearly fee-free. The three accounts — a tax-deferred traditional IRA and two Roth IRAs

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Ethereum price may have bottomed, but pro traders show little interest in buying ETH 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Ether (ETH) price has risen 6.4% from its March 30 $1,768 low but the altcoin has struggled to regain the $2,000 level. Some traders believe that the downturn is partially connected to the

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Bitcoin rally to $88.5K obliterates bears as spot volumes soar — Will a tariff war stop the party? 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Big Smokey Bitcoin price caught an unexpected bid by rallying to a session high at $88,500, but will the price gains be capped at a multimonth overhead resistance that is aligned

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West Virginia’s BTC reserve bill is ‘freedom’ from a CBDC — State Senator 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino West Virginia’s Bitcoin (BTC) strategic reserve bill would give the state more sovereignty from the federal government and freedom from a potential central bank digital currency (CBDC), State Senator Chris Rose told Cointelegraph in

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Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus 2025-04-03 at 00:25 By Tobias Mann Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once

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