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Singapore cyber security agency warns businesses of bitcoin ransomware risks

Singaporean authorities, including the Singapore cyber security agency, have issued a joint warning to alert local businesses to the growing threat of Akira ransomware variants. The ransomware Akira, which stole $42 million from more than 250 organisations in North America, Europe and Australia in a year, is now aggressively targeting businesses in Singapore, the warning said.

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08:33 2025-04-13
Opinion: Rising global liquidity could push BTC to $13- $140,000 mid-summer
Bill Barhydt, founder and CEO of crypto asset manager Abra Global, said that based on macroeconomic analysis and the rise in global liquidity, bitcoin is expected to trade between $130,000 and $140,000 by mid-summer. Bill Barhydt explained: "Bitcoin is a leveraged bet on tech stocks, and all of this is going in the right direction, and counterfeit products will be leveraged bets on Bitcoin, just like technology stocks in a liquidity-driven bull cycle.
08:30 2025-04-13
Tokenization platform Progmat completes Pre-A round of financing
Mitsubishi UFG Financial Group (MUFG) has reduced the shareholding ratio of the tokenized platform Progmat from 49% to 42%. It is reported that the reason for the reduction is that Progmat has completed the Pre-A round of financing earlier this week and introduced three new investors, including Nochun Trust and Banking, Aozora Bank and real estate company Kenedix. The specific amount of this round of financing has not been disclosed. It is reported that the completion of the new round of financi...
08:30 2025-04-13
Analyst: 37,000 BTC have been raised from exchanges in the past 24 hours, indicating a strong increase in holdings
According to crypto analyst Ali Martinez on the X platform, 37,000 BTC have been raised from exchanges in the past 24 hours, showing a strong signal of overweight.
08:27 2025-04-13
A giant whale bought 4224.5 ETH at an average price of $1,619, holding a total of 14,001 ETH
According to the on-chain analyst monitoring, in the past 5 hours, a giant whale bought 4224.5 ETH at an average price of 1619 US dollars in the downtrend, worth 6.84 million US dollars. The tokens were then transferred to the address 0x3F6... B4aF9, which currently holds a total of 14001 ETH, with a total value of 22.60 million US dollars.
08:27 2025-04-13
Andrew Kang increases his bitcoin position to $200 million, floating around $6.80 million
According to Arkham, Mechanism Capital partner Andrew Kang increased his bitcoin position to $200 million this morning, with a float of about $6.80 million.
07:57 2025-04-13
Trump extends the US national emergency
President Donald Trump has extended the US national emergency for another year, according to a document signed by the US president and due to be published on April 14.
07:15 2025-04-13
Data: Solana's liquidity pledge rate has doubled in a year, with Jito topping the list with a 34.6% market share
According to the Blockworks data panel, Solana's liquidity pledge rate has doubled in one year. Jito is well ahead of Binance's bnSOL (18.8%) and Marinade's mSOL (10.3%) with a 34.6% market share.
06:44 2025-04-13
Bloomberg: Trump family crypto project WLFI has yet to launch its promised DeFi service
The latest article from Bloomberg in the United States said that public data shows that the Trump family has been involved in non-fungible tokens (NFT), bitcoin "mining", and the release of personal cryptocurrencies. Among them, the World Liberty Financial project has been purchasing cryptocurrencies such as ETH since its establishment, but has not yet launched its promised "decentralized financial" services. Bloomberg statistics say that although the Trump family...
06:26 2025-04-13
CryptoQuant: The BTC whale has not yet left the market, a sharp correction in the ongoing bull market cycle
According to on-chain data platform CryptoQuant on the X platform, the BTC whale has not yet left the market and is currently behaving similarly to the accumulation seen during the sideways consolidation last August-September. At the same time, the report cited by CryptoQuant also points out that while Trump's tariff policies are brewing a crisis, they are not out yet (unlike how they behaved before the COVID pandemic collapsed in 2020). What we are seeing may just be a correction - albeit a dra...
06:11 2025-04-13
The US senator has submitted a draft of the Clean Cloud Act, requiring crypto miners to reduce emissions
Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and John Fetterman have submitted a draft Clean Cloud Act 2025 to the U.S. Senate, which aims to control carbon emissions from cryptocurrency mining facilities and AI data centers, with the ultimate goal of fining facilities that use non-renewable energy by 2035. The draft would amend the Clean Air Act to require data centers with energy capacity greater than 100 kilowatts to comply with the Department of Energy's National Transmission Requirements...
06:02 2025-04-13
Wayfinder: 90-day overview of several key features to be released next week
On April 13, according to Wayfinder co-founder Kalos, who posted on the X platform, Wayfinder will release an overview of about 90 days next week, and gradually release including scalability, enhanced security, path creation release, validator release (pilot), partial switch to Crow-32B, more agent types and features (contract agent testing framework, portfolio processing), additional network support, Wayfinder API and other features. In addition, Kalos also plans to update Parallel, Colony, and...
05:29 2025-04-13
The first criminal trial of former South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeok is scheduled for Monday
The first criminal trial of former South Korean President Yoon Seok-hyuk is scheduled for next week, court officials revealed on Sunday, according to Yonhap News Agency. The Seoul Central District Court is scheduled to begin hearing Yoon Seok-hyuk's rebellion charges at 10 a.m. local time (9 a.m. Beijing time) on Monday. As a defendant, Yoon Seok-hyuk must attend the trial. Prosecutors will file charges against Yoon Seok-hyuk, which is expected to be denied. If convicted of leading the rebellion...