andrei-1 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:00 pm I have not found the final official version. But it sounds scary: a corpse, a cryptocurrency, a black Mercedes.

WHAT KINDA MERCEDES???

moey_dw wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:39 pm

Danila Kuzmin, a 21-year-old Ukrainian student, was abducted in the underground garage of the luxury hotel "Sofitel" in Vienna. His burned body was found in the back seat of a car with Ukrainian license plates.
The Vienna police wrote that Kuzmin, under threat of violence, was put into an expensive Mercedes S 350D car belonging to the victim's father and taken to the Vienna district of Donaustadt. In reality, he left with the criminals voluntarily, because he knew them. Therefore, the purchase of a canister of gasoline on the way did not frighten Kuzmin - his friends most likely explained this to him by saying that their car had run out of gasoline and they were carrying fuel to refuel it. That is, the guy was asked for help at the hotel. He was alive at the time of the burning.

The suspects will not be extradited to Austria, but will be tried in their homeland. According to our information, they are a father and his son from Kharkov. They will try to make the case as closed as possible, there will be a lot of misinformation, and now they are trying to link the "Russian trace" to the detainees. https://t.me/Kharkov_Perviy/95306

The IMF has warned of global financial risks due to stablecoins

Stablecoins pegged to the US dollar can accelerate the dollarization process in countries with high inflation rates, undermining central banks' control over capital movements. This is stated in the IMF report.

The warning was published during the period of active growth of the stablecoin segment. The authors of the report noted that since 2023, the capitalization of the two largest coins — USDT and USDC — has tripled, reaching a combined figure of $260 billion.

The IMF also recognized the positive potential of the technology. In many developing countries, digital services are already outpacing traditional banking in terms of adoption rates.

However, these advantages come with macro-financial risks. The main threat is the possibility of mass flight from assets.

Users' doubts about securing stablecoins can trigger avalanche sales. In order to fulfill their obligations, companies will be forced to urgently sell off their assets (often government bonds), which can cause turmoil in global financial markets.

The pseudonymous cross-border nature of stablecoins can also weaken capital controls, simplify illegal financing, and degrade the quality of macroeconomic data. The global distribution of holders, often unknown due to non-custodial wallets, makes it more difficult to monitor crises and develop regulatory measures.




JPMorgan analysts linked bitcoin's prospects to the financial stability of Strategy

The stability of Strategy's balance sheet and the company's ability to avoid selling the first cryptocurrency are more important for the short-term price of the asset than the pressure from the miners. This is the conclusion reached by JPMorgan analysts, writes The Block.

The risk of exclusion from the MSCI index
The market is awaiting MSCI's decision on the status of shares of Strategy and other crypto-treasury companies in global indexes. It is expected on January 15th.

JPMorgan analysts believe that the impact will be asymmetric: the potential losses from exclusion are limited, and the benefits from remaining in the index are significant.

According to experts, the risks are already "abundantly embedded in the price." Since October 10, when MSCI announced the classification revision, Strategy's shares have fallen by 40%. Such a deep correction indicates that the market has taken into account not only the exclusion from the provider's indexes, but also the possible exit from other major benchmarks.

JPMorgan called the mNAV coefficient the main indicator of the stability of Michael Saylor's company. This multiplier reflects the ratio of a firm's market value to its Bitcoin reserves. Despite the sharp decline in the second half of the year, the indicator remains at 1.13.

Recall that CryptoQuant analysts regarded the creation of the dollar reserve Strategy as preparation for a protracted bear market.

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Two zero-day vulnerabilities have been fixed in Android

In the new update, Android has fixed 107 vulnerabilities in versions 13 to 16. This is stated in the monthly security report.

Most of them received a high level of danger, and several posed a special threat.

Four critical vulnerabilities affect the Android kernel. An attacker who uses any of them may gain elevated privileges or access to an infected device.

Another critical issue is related to the Android Framework, a component that allows applications to interact with key system services. In this case, an attacker can perform a remote denial-of-service attack that will render the device temporarily inoperable.

According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, two high-level vulnerabilities could already be exploited in targeted attacks.

Hackers have been arrested in Korea on suspicion of selling content from hacked cameras to an adult website.
South Korea's national police have arrested four people suspected of hacking into more than 120,000 IP cameras across the country and selling stolen videos to an overseas adult website.

The police are taking measures against consumers of illegally obtained content — three people have been arrested and face up to three years in prison. The authorities announced cooperation with foreign agencies to identify the operators of the site and eliminate the platform.

According to the message:

Suspect B (unemployed) hacked 63,000 IP cameras and produced and sold 545 illegal videos with intimate content worth $23,800 in virtual assets.;
Suspect C (Office worker) — Hacked 70,000 IP cameras with 648 videos ($12,300);
Suspect D (self—employed) - hacked 15,000 IP cameras and produced illegal content, including materials involving minors;
Suspect E (office worker) hacked 136 IP cameras.
According to the investigation, the site received 62% of all content downloads last year from suspects B and C alone.

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The Huione Pay darknet platform has suspended its work.
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