A project called Monero Rings positions itself as an "improved version" of Monero, promising fast transactions, scalability, improved mining and even non-fungible tokens. All of this sounds wonderful, however, as it turned out, Monero Rings is a fake hard fork of Monero that steals funds from users.

A bug has been discovered in the Ledger Nano S hardware crypto wallet in the operation of software version 1.1.3 with the Monero 0.14 client, related to an incorrect address for the return of funds. This was reported by the developers of the Ledger Nano S cryptocurrency wallet, who asked device owners to refrain from using version 0.14 while the developers search for a solution.

Programmer Warith Al Maawali has discovered a security breach in the Coinomi cryptocurrency wallet, as a result of which the Coinomi crypto wallet sends users' passphrases to the Google spell-check service in unencrypted form, thereby opening up access for scammers to private information and giving them the opportunity to take over users' funds. This breach in the wallet's security was discovered during the investigation of the mysterious theft of 90% of the programmer's funds.

With the arrival of the cryptocurrency era came new threats from hackers as well – hidden mining, or cryptojacking. Previously hackers made a living by stealing bank card data and extortion, but now the demand for cryptocurrency has given hackers a new trade – the hidden mining of coins on computers and mobile devices using viruses.

New malicious software has been discovered that is capable of operating through various web browser extensions. The malware called Razy disguises itself as a browser extension and steals digital currencies from infected devices...