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The group of cybercriminals Lazarus, funded by North Korea, has adopted new tactics to illegally acquire cryptocurrencies. This was reported by Kaspersky Lab this March 26. Apparently, the organization has been using custom PowerShell scripts that interact with malicious C2 servers and execute commands from the operator, allowing them to…
The home delivery startup Rappi continues to grow, both in its expansion and in the diversity of services it seeks to offer its users. Now, this app will add the service of prescription drugs at home after the agreement between Rappi and Sanofi, the European pharmaceutical group. Rappi and Sanofi…
In 2018, the crypto-winter and thus the year of stablecoins started. What these are, how they work and what types are there, will be shown in this article. By the end of 2017, blockchain projects sprang up like mushrooms. When the Bitcoin price collapsed in early 2018, the blockchain hype…
On 19 February, Axel Seitz taps the N26 app on his iPhone, but he can not log in. The access data for his account are not valid, so the error message. Because he urgently wants to transfer money, Seitz tries to reach the bank by phone – and finds that…
With the objective of growing five times the volume of operations that pass through its platform, Conekta, the fintech aggregate of payments, seeks to leave behind the scenes and approach the final consumer to become the intermediary between this and the businesses. This platform presumes to be the one who…
As early as 2018, the promising starting signal for a very special Insurtech event at the Frankfurt Goethe University was given to me. At that time, about 180 participants met with 25 international startups and the host country Singapore for the Global Insurtech Roadshow. Last week at GIR19 there were…
Food logistics startup fliit collects 10 million euros. Maersk Growth and Alstin II invest in the Berlin based food logistics startup fliit. Which receives 10 million euros in new capital. Investors for the Series A are the Maersk Growth Fund of the logistics giant Maersk and the venture capital fund…
Many older people over the age of 30 may have never heard of the bank called N26. Started as one of many FinTech startups, the company is now a fully licensed bank based in Berlin. Unlike normal banks, everything runs via app, really everything! Comfortable, fast, young, innovative, hip, hip.…
The payment provider Klarna has launched an open banking platform through which other fintechs, banks and companies can trigger payments on the accounts of consumers. According to the company, the platform provides access to 99 percent of online banking customers in currently 14 European countries. More than 4,300 European banks…
Amazon, one of the world’s largest online retailers, has recently partnered with global company WorldPay. The goal of the collaboration is to include Amazon Pay in the huge list of dealers of WorldPay, so at least according to a press release by PYMNTS on March 20, 2019. WorldPay will be…