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Submission + - SPAM: Justin Kan and Fractal Team Donate $150k to Scam Victims

Draconi writes: A Christmas miracle? Or just plain good old business and marketing sense? This morning 335 members of Fractal's Discord community woke up to find all the lost funds from December 21st's Discord server hacking and accompanying phishing scam returned to their Solana wallets, courtesy a donation matching the lost funds by Justin Kan and the Fractal Team.
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Submission + - Facebook DNS Entries Fail - Massive Outage (wsj.com)

Draconi writes: At some point in the early afternoon on 10/4/2021 various DNS entries for Facebook failed to resolve worldwide, causing a global service outage for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Further reports from blogs and e-commerce merchants have noted that the Facebook tracking pixel — which depends on the subdomain "connect.facebook.net" — is also down, causing certain browsers to load their sites more slowly as attempts to resolve the DNS entries time out.

Dane Knecht at CloudFlare notes that the Border Gateway Protocol entries for Facebook have been "withdrawn." Was this a massive configuration mistake or an intentional attack using BGP hijacking?

It just goes to show: It's always DNS. (Or a TLS certificate).

Comment Re:Has that ever worked? (Score 1) 27

I would argue that Final Fantasy XIV was such a game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV#Testing_and_release

Wikipedia glosses over it, but the launch was widely considered to be a failure. With public apologies from the dev team and a major re-release and PR push later.

https://www.pcgamer.com/square-enix-say-sorry-for-final-fantasy-xiv-announce-staff-changes-and-free-trial-extension/

Seems like it did well enough for an MMO afterwards.

Submission + - Bitcoin drops 25% to under $5,900 in Coronavirus panic (forbes.com)

Draconi writes: The price of Bitcoin dropped from it's March 6th, 2020 high of $9,126 (https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin) to under $5,900 today as market sell-offs accelerated with the S&P and Dow Jones dropping 7% in early hours trading.

Bitcoin, long considered to be a safe-haven during times of economic stress, currently costs at least $4,313 in electricity per coin to generate (https://www.trinsicoin.com). The latest drop has wiped out all 2020 gains for Bitcoin and sent a ripple effect across other cryptocurrencies, with Ethereum down nearly 30%.

Comment He literally kept proof of crimes on his phone (Score 5, Interesting) 102

Check out Item (b) in "Griffith's Electronic Communications" from the indictment:

"I need to send 1 [unit of Cryptocurrency-1] between North and South Korea." In response, Individual-2 asked, in sum and substance, "Isn't that violating sanctions?" GRIFFITH replied, "it is."

It's not just about giving a speech, it's about violation of sanctions by a U.S. citizen who, after he realized how much trouble he might be in, casually asked the investigator how he would go about switching his citizenship!

Submission + - CEX.io and BTC-e.com Withdrawals Linked to Russian Election Interference (cotten.io)

Draconi writes: Based on the indirect references in the Nytksho indictment and Olympic anti-doping hacking indictment an analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain around those events, correlated with the Mueller Report's notes, demonstrates that the GRU led cyberattack and disinformation units (a.k.a. the Fancy Bear hacking team) withdrew funds from both CEX.io and BTC-e.com to fund domain purchases, server rentals, and VPN services.

The purchase trails are fully exposed in the Bitcoin blockchain as funds are used, consolidated, and deposited into secondary online wallets such as SpectroCoin.com and Xapo.com. Anyone can follow along and trace the payment chains to see exactly how the Russians were spending their money, when, and on what.

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