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Facebook Caved In to FBI Pressure And Banned Crypto Ads. Google Pressured To Do The Same

Facebook’s banning of crypto ads last month does not appear to have been made by Facebook, but as a result of months of pressure from the FBI and other regulators who are now putting pressure on Google, reports TrustNodes. Jason Roy, Senior Investigator at the Manitoba Securities Commission and Chair of the Canadian Binary Options Task Force, said: “What happened is that Canada’s Binary Options Task Force as well as the FBI explained to Facebook what the concerns were and that these types of ads are leading to people becoming victims. We’ve been talking to Google and had similar discussions...

Advertising Displays Hacked for Cryptocurrency Mining

You’ve heard of online pop-up ads secretly mining Bitcoin on unsuspecting users’ computers but what about digital campaigns targeting high street shoppers? According to Terence Eden’s Blog, one of the large digital advertising displays that are common fixtures in big cities these days was hacked. Rather than displaying some commercial message from a global megabrand, the machine showed what was obviously a Windows operating system with a window labelled “NiceHash Miner Legacy” – a Bitcoin mining program designed for older machines. According to pictures from the website that reported the compromised machine, the digital advertising display is mining with a hash-rate of zero....

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