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✅ According to cybersecurity company Carbon Black, $1.1 billion in cryptos was stolen during the first half of this year. The company's security strategist Rick McElroy noticed that fraudsters have been committing cybercrime easily and without much technical skill by using the dark web in order to facilitate large-scale thefts. The most popular targets of scammers were exchanges, which accounted for 27% of attacks this year so far.
✅ Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial company, announced that it would spend some of the $14 billion that they raised in order to boost blockchain development. They offer inclusive financial services to underbanked organizations. Though there isn’t any info about their roadmap, this news is stunning. It gives great opportunities to the well-known chinese payment provider AliPay, produced by Alibaba Group, which had 800 million active users last year.
✅ Ripple plans to donate $50 million to 17 universities around the world to stimulate blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption. Their other goal is to accelerate research, and prove how this technology has developed and can continue developing. The company announced their University Blockchain Research Initiative and they plan to send money using USD, not cryptocurrency.
✅ According to cybersecurity company Carbon Black, $1.1 billion in cryptos was stolen during the first half of this year. The company's security strategist Rick McElroy noticed that fraudsters have been committing cybercrime easily and without much technical skill by using the dark web in order to facilitate large-scale thefts. The most popular targets of scammers were exchanges, which accounted for 27% of attacks this year so far.
✅ Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial company, announced that it would spend some of the $14 billion that they raised in order to boost blockchain development. They offer inclusive financial services to underbanked organizations. Though there isn’t any info about their roadmap, this news is stunning. It gives great opportunities to the well-known chinese payment provider AliPay, produced by Alibaba Group, which had 800 million active users last year.
✅ Ripple plans to donate $50 million to 17 universities around the world to stimulate blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption. Their other goal is to accelerate research, and prove how this technology has developed and can continue developing. The company announced their University Blockchain Research Initiative and they plan to send money using USD, not cryptocurrency.