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ForkLog 12 01.03.2021

Google Finance adds a tab for cryptocurrency prices

Google Finance, the data aggregator for financial markets, has added a tab to monitor prices of digital assets.

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ForkLog 6 10.02.2021

Russia to study the possibility of introducing a digital tax

The Russian Ministry of Finance wants to tax foreign companies earning profits from digital services provided on the territory of the country. This was stated by Deputy Minister Alexei Sazanov in an interview with the auditing firm KPMG.

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ForkLog 11 18.01.2021

Trezor Discovers Malicious Wallet in Google Play; Thousands Have Downloaded It.

The developers of the Trezor hardware wallet warned Android users about a fake app, Mobile Manager Wallet, circulating on Google Play.

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ForkLog 10 11.01.2021

Google Cloud opens vacancy for blockchain specialist

Google Cloud has posted a vacancy for a blockchain-focused business development manager. The new hire will work in the company's China division.

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ForkLog 10 14.12.2020

Europeans report a widespread Google outage

On December 14, around 14:27 MSK, a widespread outage affected Google services.

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ForkLog 10 20.11.2020

Fake Uniswap app steals $20,000 from a user

A fake Uniswap app in the Google Play store is stealing cryptocurrency from users. One of them has already lost $20,000.

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ForkLog 13 19.10.2020

Google reveals details of a previously unknown large-scale DDoS attack

The Google Cloud team described a large-scale DDoS attack targeting Google's services in 2017. Its peak traffic reached 2.54 Tbps, making it one of the largest DDoS attacks on record.

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ForkLog 6 09.10.2020

Roskomnadzor seeks information on Google’s Global Cache servers. Banning them would hit YouTube

Russian telecom operators have received letters from Roskomnadzor demanding information on whether they are connected to Google's Global Cache servers. The letters' authenticity has been confirmed by several large providers.

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ForkLog 6 06.10.2020

Google Cloud named a candidate to be an EOS block producer; EOS rises about 14.6%.

Block.one said that Google Cloud has become a candidate to act as a block producer for EOS.

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ForkLog 12 06.08.2020

Malicious actors have created Uniswap copycat sites to steal cryptocurrency and are promoting them on Google

Several fake Uniswap copycat sites appeared online, through which attackers steal cryptocurrencies. The fraudulent sites are promoted via Google ads.

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Krzysztof Shpak 876 23.06.2020

Hackers Use Popular Web Analytics Tool to Steal Online Shoppers’ Payment Information

Threat actors are now targeting Google Analytics service to harvest data entered by users. As the victims are generally Europe and Americas-based online stores selling cosmetics, food products, digital equipment, and spare parts, the stolen information includes their shoppers’ credit card details.

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Google Chrome Extension With 32M Downloads Has Malicious Add-Ons that Steal Data, Report

Krzysztof Shpak 3787 19.06.2020

Google Chrome Extensions With 32M Downloads Have Malicious Add-Ons that Steal Data, Report

As of May 2020, Google’s Chrome Web Store has reportedly been hit with the most massive surveillance campaign so far, which managed to steal data from users around the world through over 32 million downloads of malicious extensions.

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