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  • Was Bitcoin price drop to $75K the bottom? — Data suggests BTC to stocks decoupling will continue

    Was Bitcoin price drop to $75K the bottom? — Data suggests BTC to stocks decoupling will continue 2025-04-07 at 18:06 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $75,000 on April 6, pressured by traditional markets as S&P 500 futures hit their lowest levels since January 2024. The initial panic also caused WTI oil…

  • A decade-old debate is back as self-custody gets smarter

    A decade-old debate is back as self-custody gets smarter 2025-04-07 at 18:06 By Cointelegraph by Alvin Kan Opinion by: Alvin Kan, chief operating officer of Bitget Wallet Here we go again: A top centralized crypto exchange (CEX) was hacked, this time likely for the largest sum in humanity’s history. We were lucky to avoid the…

  • Bitcoin price retakes $80K as US stocks avoid ‘Black Monday’ meltdown

    Bitcoin price retakes $80K as US stocks avoid ‘Black Monday’ meltdown 2025-04-07 at 18:06 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) sought a relief rally into the April 7 Wall Street open as US stocks rebounded from a 4%+ loss. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin joins US stocks in relief rally Data from Cointelegraph…

  • Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows

    Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows 2025-04-07 at 18:06 By Ryan Naraine Experimental Sec-Gemini v1 touts a combination of Google’s Gemini LLM capabilities with real-time security data and tooling from Mandiant. The post Google Pushing ‘Sec-Gemini’ AI Model for Threat-Intel Workflows appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View…

  • Longtime Tesla bull slashes price target by 43% as Trump tariffs, brand crisis create ‘perfect storm’

    Longtime Tesla bull slashes price target by 43% as Trump tariffs, brand crisis create ‘perfect storm’ 2025-04-07 at 17:31 By Thomas Barrabi A longtime Tesla bull has slashed his price target by 43%, arguing that a brand crisis surrounding Elon Musk’s work with the Trump administration and President Trump’s trade war have created a “perfect…

  • Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history

    Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history 2025-04-07 at 17:20 By Thomas Claburn After 23 years, the privacy plumber has finally arrived to clean up this mess A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people’s web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday…

  • CISA and FBI Warn Fast Flux is Powering Resilient Malware, C2, and Phishing Networks

    CISA and FBI Warn Fast Flux is Powering Resilient Malware, C2, and Phishing Networks 2025-04-07 at 17:19 By Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have published a joint advisory about the risks associated with a technique called fast flux that has been adopted by threat actors to obscure a command-and-control…

  • One Booth at RSAC™ 2025 Conference Will Justify Your Whole Trip

    One Booth at RSAC™ 2025 Conference Will Justify Your Whole Trip 2025-04-07 at 17:06 By Alisha Smith Find us at RSAC 2025 for a backstage pass to some of the industry’s greatest hits This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Over 90% of WazirX creditors support post-hack restructuring plan

    Over 90% of WazirX creditors support post-hack restructuring plan 2025-04-07 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Over 90% of the voting creditors of the Indian crypto exchange WazirX voted in favor of the platform’s post-hack restructuring plan. According to an April 7 announcement, 93.1% of voting creditors who hold 94.6% of the value voted…

  • Immuta Data Marketplace enhancements accelerate data provisioning

    Immuta Data Marketplace enhancements accelerate data provisioning 2025-04-07 at 17:05 By Industry News Immuta announced enhancements to its Data Marketplace solution to help organizations that are increasingly focusing on data-driven decision making and artificial intelligence address the increase in volume of data access requests while minimizing data risk. Upcoming new features such as timebound approvals,…

  • RunSafe Risk Reduction Analysis offers insights into memory-based CVEs

    RunSafe Risk Reduction Analysis offers insights into memory-based CVEs 2025-04-07 at 16:35 By Industry News RunSafe Security launched the RunSafe Risk Reduction Analysis, which analyzes total exposure to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and memory-based zero days in software. Designed for cybersecurity professionals and embedded systems developers, the solution provides much-needed insight into system vulnerabilities…

  • Tribunal denies UK’s attempt to keep details of Apple ‘backdoor’ case secret

    Tribunal denies UK’s attempt to keep details of Apple ‘backdoor’ case secret 2025-04-07 at 16:16 By Connor Jones Last month’s secret hearing comes to light Details of Apple’s appeal against the UK’s so-called “backdoor order” will now play out in public after the Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national…

  • ZKasino scammer loses $27M as Ethereum price drops

    ZKasino scammer loses $27M as Ethereum price drops 2025-04-07 at 16:02 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai A wallet linked to the $40 million ZKasino scam lost more than $27 million after a leveraged position was liquidated, marking what some in the crypto community are calling a dose of karmic justice. ZKasino launched in April 2024,…

  • US federal agencies to report crypto holdings to Treasury by April 7

    US federal agencies to report crypto holdings to Treasury by April 7 2025-04-07 at 16:02 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra US federal agencies are expected to disclose their cryptocurrency holdings to the Department of the Treasury by April 7, following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year. Citing an unidentified White…

  • Why Strong Usernames Matter for Your Online Security

    Why Strong Usernames Matter for Your Online Security 2025-04-07 at 16:02 By Damian Archer Protect Your Privacy: Using the same username across accounts can expose personal information and increase the risk of extortion and data theft. Reduce Breach Impact: Unique usernames, combined with strong passwords, minimize the chances of hackers accessing multiple accounts after a…

  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: VPN Exploits, Oracle’s Silent Breach, ClickFix Comeback and More

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: VPN Exploits, Oracle’s Silent Breach, ClickFix Comeback and More 2025-04-07 at 15:46 By Today, every unpatched system, leaked password, and overlooked plugin is a doorway for attackers. Supply chains stretch deep into the code we trust, and malware hides not just in shady apps — but in job offers, hardware, and cloud…

  • EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

    EU may target US tech giants in tariff response 2025-04-07 at 15:20 By Lindsay Clark By putting services in scope, €18 trillion trade bloc looks to focus tech sector minds Speaking ahead of today’s extraordinary meeting of the European Union’s trade minister, a spokesperson for the French government was clear that the trading bloc’s response…

  • Mantra unveils $108M fund to back real-world asset tokenization, DeFi

    Mantra unveils $108M fund to back real-world asset tokenization, DeFi 2025-04-07 at 15:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The Mantra blockchain network has launched a $108,888,888 ecosystem fund aimed at accelerating the growth of startups focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi), amid rising demand for stable, asset-backed digital products. Mantra, a…

  • Crypto ETPs shed $240M last week amid US trade tariffs — CoinShares

    Crypto ETPs shed $240M last week amid US trade tariffs — CoinShares 2025-04-07 at 15:05 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw renewed outflows last week, with $240 million in investor capital pulled, according to an April 7 report from digital asset manager CoinShares. The outflows reversed two consecutive weeks of inflows…

  • Bolster cyber resilience to increase corporate and individual security

    Bolster cyber resilience to increase corporate and individual security 2025-04-07 at 15:05 By When individuals take responsibility for their personal security, they contribute to a safer, more resilient digital environment for everyone. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • The hidden costs of outdated security

    The hidden costs of outdated security 2025-04-07 at 15:05 By AI isn’t just the future of security; it’s the present, and businesses must proactively integrate it across operations to help protect human life and critical systems. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • CRM, Bulk Email Providers Targeted in Crypto Phishing Campaign

    CRM, Bulk Email Providers Targeted in Crypto Phishing Campaign 2025-04-07 at 15:05 By Ionut Arghire ‘PoisonSeed’ phishing campaign targets CRM and bulk email providers to distribute “crypto seed phrase” messages. The post CRM, Bulk Email Providers Targeted in Crypto Phishing Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source…

  • WinRAR MotW bypass flaw fixed, update ASAP (CVE-2025-31334)

    WinRAR MotW bypass flaw fixed, update ASAP (CVE-2025-31334) 2025-04-07 at 14:36 By Zeljka Zorz WinRAR users, upgrade your software as soon as possible: a vulnerability (CVE-2025-31334) that could allow attackers to bypass Windows’ Mark of the Web (MotW) security warning and execute arbitrary code on your machine has been fixed in version 7.11. About CVE-2025-31334…

  • Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth

    Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth 2025-04-07 at 14:17 By Dan Robinson Digital Connectivity Forum lays out climate goals, but enforcement is strictly optional A group of UK telecoms operators has signed a joint letter calling on their suppliers to do more on emissions targets to help…

  • Security Theater: Vanity Metrics Keep You Busy – and Exposed

    Security Theater: Vanity Metrics Keep You Busy – and Exposed 2025-04-07 at 14:17 By After more than 25 years of mitigating risks, ensuring compliance, and building robust security programs for Fortune 500 companies, I’ve learned that looking busy isn’t the same as being secure.  It’s an easy trap for busy cybersecurity leaders to fall into.…

  • NIST Puts Pre-2018 CVEs on Back Burner as It Works to Clear Backlog

    NIST Puts Pre-2018 CVEs on Back Burner as It Works to Clear Backlog 2025-04-07 at 14:02 By Ionut Arghire NIST has marked pre-2018 CVEs in NVD as ‘Deferred’ and will no longer spend resources on enriching them. The post NIST Puts Pre-2018 CVEs on Back Burner as It Works to Clear Backlog appeared first on…

  • Port of Seattle Says 90,000 People Impacted by Ransomware Attack

    Port of Seattle Says 90,000 People Impacted by Ransomware Attack 2025-04-07 at 13:35 By Ionut Arghire The Port of Seattle says the personal information of 90,000 individuals was stolen in an August 2024 ransomware attack. The post Port of Seattle Says 90,000 People Impacted by Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an…

  • Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty

    Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty 2025-04-07 at 13:19 By Eduard Kovacs A 20-year-old arrested last year and charged alongside others believed to be members of Scattered Spider has pleaded guilty. The post Suspected Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to…

  • China car giant BYD poses major threat to Tesla and Detroit’s Big 3 — and tariffs could make it worse

    China car giant BYD poses major threat to Tesla and Detroit’s Big 3 — and tariffs could make it worse 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Thomas Barrabi “As the words came out of Trump’s mouth, they were probably drinking champagne in BYD headquarters,” Ives told The Post. “It accelerates BYD’s success.” This article is an excerpt…

  • Hong Kong introduces crypto staking rules, reaffirms Web3 commitment

    Hong Kong introduces crypto staking rules, reaffirms Web3 commitment 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has introduced new guidelines for crypto exchanges offering staking services. In an April 7 announcement, the SFC announced new guidelines for crypto exchanges offering staking services and locally authorized funds exposed…

  • Whale makes $14M Ether emergency deposit to avoid $340M liquidation

    Whale makes $14M Ether emergency deposit to avoid $340M liquidation 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai An unidentified cryptocurrency whale injected millions of dollars in emergency capital to avoid a potential liquidation of more than $300 million in Ether as markets slumped amid renewed macroeconomic pressure. The whale is reportedly close to liquidation…

  • How to use Render Network for decentralized GPU rendering

    How to use Render Network for decentralized GPU rendering 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Cointelegraph by Bradley Peak Key takeaways Render Network connects GPU owners with creators, allowing users to rent idle graphics power for AI training, 3D rendering and crypto-related projects. The RNDR token powers the ecosystem, enabling fast, transparent and decentralized transactions between creators…

  • Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses

    Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses 2025-04-07 at 13:05 By Paul Kunert With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don’t have a product to show CISPE Microsoft has weeks to produce a multi-tenant hybrid cloud for service providers in Europe – a failure to do this…

  • UK stats body snoozes legacy tech overhaul as Treasury tightens purse strings

    UK stats body snoozes legacy tech overhaul as Treasury tightens purse strings 2025-04-07 at 12:27 By Lindsay Clark ONS acknowledges it might be a costly decision in the long run The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) is slowing migration away from legacy systems in response to budget limitations set by HM Treasury.… This article…

  • Black Monday 2.0? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

    Black Monday 2.0? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-04-07 at 12:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) is turning back the clock this week as tariff mayhem drags BTC price action toward 2021. Bitcoin is giving up bull market support lines left and right as a new “death cross” completes on…

  • PoisonSeed Exploits CRM Accounts to Launch Cryptocurrency Seed Phrase Poisoning Attacks

    PoisonSeed Exploits CRM Accounts to Launch Cryptocurrency Seed Phrase Poisoning Attacks 2025-04-07 at 12:02 By A malicious campaign dubbed PoisonSeed is leveraging compromised credentials associated with customer relationship management (CRM) tools and bulk email providers to send spam messages containing cryptocurrency seed phrases in an attempt to drain victims’ digital wallets. “Recipients of the bulk…

  • The future of American dynamism depends on cryptography

    The future of American dynamism depends on cryptography 2025-04-07 at 11:06 By Cointelegraph by Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh Opinion by: Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, co-founder and CEO of Lagrange Trade wars and proxy wars are underway in the current geopolitical power realignment, but the next phase won’t be fought with tariffs or drones. It will be decided by who…

  • Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers

    Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers 2025-04-07 at 10:30 By Thomas Claburn Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers Mozilla plans to make life easier for developers of Firefox browser Add-ons, aka extensions, by reducing the burden of presenting custom consent dialogs to those installing extensions.… This article…

  • Meta debuts its first ‘mixture of experts’ models from the Llama 4 herd

    Meta debuts its first ‘mixture of experts’ models from the Llama 4 herd 2025-04-07 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.… This article is an excerpt…

  • N-able Vulnerability Management identifies vulnerabilities across all major operating systems

    N-able Vulnerability Management identifies vulnerabilities across all major operating systems 2025-04-07 at 09:48 By Industry News N-able announced the upcoming launch of its Vulnerability Management feature for their UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) products, N-central and N-sight. The new built-in feature will allow organizations to identify, prioritize, remediate, and report on vulnerabilities across all major operating…

  • Trader stakes $0.05 of SOL for 3,000 years: Here’s what it’ll be worth in 5138

    Trader stakes $0.05 of SOL for 3,000 years: Here’s what it’ll be worth in 5138 2025-04-07 at 09:21 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A crypto user has gone very long on Solana, staking a very small portion of the token for the next 3,000 years, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence. The unknown user…

  • Ethereum whale gets liquidated $106M on Sky amid crypto bloodbath

    Ethereum whale gets liquidated $106M on Sky amid crypto bloodbath 2025-04-07 at 09:21 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young An Ether investor who had a large position on decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Sky has been liquidated to the tune of more than $100 million as the price of Ether crashed.  The Ether (ETH) whale lost…

  • CISOs battle security platform fatigue

    CISOs battle security platform fatigue 2025-04-07 at 08:31 By Mirko Zorz It starts with good intentions. A tool to stop phishing. Another to monitor endpoints. One more for cloud workloads. Soon, a well-meaning CISO finds themselves managing dozens of products across teams, each with its own dashboard, alerts, and licensing headaches. Welcome to the age…

  • openSNP Shutters Over Privacy and Authoritarianism Concerns

    openSNP Shutters Over Privacy and Authoritarianism Concerns 2025-04-07 at 08:16 View original post at vpnMentor OpenSNP, a long-running open-source genetic data platform, is shutting down after citing growing concerns over data privacy, the misuse of genetic information by law enforcement, and the rise of authoritarian governments. The decision comes as 23andMe, a major source of…

  • A defendant tried to use an AI avatar in a legal appeal. It didn’t work

    A defendant tried to use an AI avatar in a legal appeal. It didn’t work 2025-04-07 at 08:10 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young A defendant in a New York appeals court has been slammed by a judge for using an artificial intelligence avatar to represent himself in a recent case.  A New York appeals court…

  • No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st

    No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st 2025-04-07 at 08:10 By Simon Sharwood Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike Exclusive  Microsoft published inaccurate price lists for some of its products on, of all days, April the 1st.… This…

  • The shift to identity-first security and why it matters

    The shift to identity-first security and why it matters 2025-04-07 at 08:10 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Arun Shrestha, CEO at BeyondID, discusses how AI is transforming secure access management for both attackers and defenders. He discusses the shift toward identity-first security, and the role of contextual and continuous authentication in…

  • YES3 Scanner: Open-source S3 security scanner for public access, ransomware protection

    YES3 Scanner: Open-source S3 security scanner for public access, ransomware protection 2025-04-07 at 07:35 By Mirko Zorz YES3 Scanner is an open-source tool that scans and analyzes 10+ different configuration items for your S3 buckets in AWS. This includes access such as public access via ACLs and bucket policies – including the complex combinations of…

  • Bitcoin hashrate tops 1 Zetahash in historic first, trackers show

    Bitcoin hashrate tops 1 Zetahash in historic first, trackers show 2025-04-07 at 07:03 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The Bitcoin network hashrate has topped 1 Zetahash per second (ZH/s) for the first time in Bitcoin’s 16-year history, according to several blockchain data sources. Bitcoin’s hashrate crossed the milestone on April 5 at a peak of…

  • Memecoin platform Pump.fun brings livestream feature back to 5% of users

    Memecoin platform Pump.fun brings livestream feature back to 5% of users 2025-04-07 at 07:03 By Cointelegraph by Jody McDonald Alon Cohen, co-founder of the Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, is set to bring back live streaming on the platform — five months after suspending the feature after several incidents involving harmful content.  Posting on X on…

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