2025

Mantra post-OM token crash statement leaves key questions unanswered 2025-04-16 at 18:03 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Troubled decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Mantra released an official statement addressing the reasons for a 92% flash crash of its OM token on April 13. An April 16 announcement titled “Statement of Events: 13 April 2025” reiterates that the […]

Law firm ‘didn’t think’ data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it’s nursing a £60K fine 2025-04-16 at 18:03 By Paul Kunert DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog’s conclusions A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK’s data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its

Hacker accessed customer information in Hertz data breach 2025-04-16 at 18:03 By Car rental service Hertz experienced a data breach that may have compromised sensitive customer information.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

MITRE set to lose funding today, CISA intervenes 2025-04-16 at 18:03 By CISA has extended MITRE’s funding, and security leaders are sharing their thoughts.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Real estate fintech Janover doubles Solana holdings with $10.5M buy 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Real estate-focused financial technology firm Janover has acquired 80,567 Solana tokens for roughly $10.5 million. According to an April 15 announcement, with its latest purchase, Janover’s Solana (SOL) holdings reached 163,651.7 — worth about $21.2 million, including

UFC boss Dana White becomes VeChain adviser to push blockchain mainstream 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai VeChain, a layer-1 blockchain platform focused on real-world applications, has added Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White as its newest official adviser to raise more mainstream awareness of blockchain technology. White, also the founder of

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Paul Kunert Bezos’ biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn’t fair AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters

ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Dan Robinson Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump’s tariff turmoil casts

MITRE CVE has run out of funding, security leaders respond 2025-04-16 at 17:40 By Security leaders respond to the news that MITRE’s funding has run out.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Blocked 5.1B Harmful Ads and Suspended 39.2M Advertiser Accounts in 2024 2025-04-16 at 16:48 By Google on Wednesday revealed that it suspended over 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, with a majority of them identified and blocked by its systems before it could serve harmful ads to users. In all, the tech giant said

Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite 2025-04-16 at 15:45 By Iain Thomson Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux

Bitcoin Treasury bonds may help US refinance $14T debt — VanEck exec 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz VanEck’s head of research has pitched a new type of US Treasury bond partially backed by Bitcoin to help refinance $14 trillion in US debt. Matthew Sigel pitched the concept of “BitBonds” — US Treasury

Ethereum L2 development is ‘double-edged sword’ for ETH value 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Ethereum’s push toward layer-2 (L2) blockchain scalability may be a double-edged sword for Ether, potentially weakening the value accrual of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, according to a new report from Binance Research. The report suggests that Ethereum’s L2

Bitcoin could hit $1M if US buys 1M BTC — Bitcoin Policy Institute 2025-04-16 at 15:22 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra A Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) executive floated a $1 million Bitcoin price scenario if the United States were to buy 1 million BTC.  In a Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Zach Shapiro, the head of policy