COCO PAY presents a roundup of the most significant web3 news from the past week. Don’t miss out!
- A French court has granted Telegram founder Pavel Durov permission to leave the country. According to France24, he departed for Dubai on March 15, where he plans to stay for several weeks.
- In Houston, USA, a group of teenagers aged 16 to 19 attacked popular streamer Kaitlyn Siragusa (known as Amouranth), demanding she hand over her cryptocurrency assets.
- Microsoft has identified a malicious program called StilachiRAT — a remote access trojan targeting 20 cryptocurrency wallet extensions in the Chrome browser. Affected wallets include Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and OKX Wallet.
- Cybercriminals have developed a new scheme to disguise illegal transactions by creating vulnerable smart contracts that lure arbitrage bots, which they secretly control.
- Tron co-founder Justin Sun announced a surge in meme coin activity on the Tron network and promised that all profits from new projects will be directed to charitable causes.
- Malicious links disguised as hacked versions of TradingView Premium are spreading in crypto-related Reddit communities. Malwarebytes has confirmed that these are actually trojan programs.
- Pakistan is working on a legal framework to regulate crypto trading in a bid to attract international investors.
- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced support for a bill regulating stablecoins, stating that such assets would strengthen the dominance of the U.S. dollar in global markets.
More news coming soon. COCO PAY—always keeping you informed!
