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Estonia-based cryptocurrency payments firm CoinsPaid suspects North Korean hackers with the Lazarus Group gained access to its systems through fake recruiters targeting employees.

The number of people buying crypto assets in Latvia is declining, Latvijas Banka said in its 2023 “Financial Stability Report."

The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries agreed Thursday to speed up their nations’ disconnection from Russia’s power grid by nearly one year and connect with the continental European energy network by February 2025

The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries agreed Thursday to speed up their nations’ disconnection from Russia’s power grid by nearly one year and connect with the continental European energy network by February 2025

Ministry of Defence said it began live-fire naval exercises in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions with nearby European nations that are already high over NATO and Ukraine. Russia last carried out mass military exercises in the Baltic Sea in June, two months after Finland became NATO's newest member.

Russian authorities have accused Ukraine in yet another drone attack on Moscow and its surroundings

Cryptocurrency payments platform CoinsPaid has pointed the finger at North Korean state-backed Lazarus Group as being behind the hacking of its internal systems, which allowed them to steal $37.3 million on July 22.

Road accidents claim around 1.5 million lives in India every year, contributing 11 per cent to the total number of such fatalities globally, according to a FICCI-EY report. Globally, at least one life is lost every 24 seconds due to road traffic injury, said the report released on Tuesday. As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), road crash is the 8th leading cause of death with more than 1.3 billion deaths and 50 million serious injuries. It is the leading cause of death amongst youth and kids aged 5 to 29 years, it said. «1st rank in road fatalities is held by India (11 per cent share in the world). Every year India loses 1.5 million lives in road crashes...Every year we lose a number of people the size of the population of Estonia,» the report titled 'Road Safety in India — Navigating through nuances' said. India is a signatory to Brasilia Declaration which aims to half the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030. The report was released by Tukuni Sahu, Minister for Transport, Water Resources & Commerce, government of Odisha, in the national capital.

The EU's comprehensive work on regulating the industry will provide numerous benefits to crypto companies and their customers, argued Christian Niedermüller, CEO of the fully regulated crypto platform Blocktrade, in an interview with Cryptonews.

The price of Shiba Inu (SHIB) has barely moved in the past 24 hours, with its current level of $0.00000753 representing a 1% loss in the past week.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 38-member bloc, spanning mostly wealthy nations but also some emerging economies like Mexico and Estonia. There is little evidence the emergence of AI is having a significant impact on jobs so far, but that may be because the revolution is in its early stages, the OECD said. Jobs with the highest risk of being automated make up 27% of the labour force on average in OECD countries, with eastern European countries most exposed, the Paris-based organisation said in its 2023 Employment Outlook.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released a report on global investments for the year 2022. According to the report, the net inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) to Central biggest state Kazakhstan amounted to $6.1 billion, the highest figure in the past 5 years and 83% higher than in 2021. This is the highest indicator among the post-Soviet countries.

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Atomic Wallet service, cryptocurrency analytics firm Elliptic said Tuesday. In a blog post, Elliptic said that more than 5,500 digital wallets were hit by the hackers, who the firm said were part of the North Korean cybercrime gang often called Lazarus.North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Pyongyang has in the past denied carrying out digital thefts. Atomic Wallet did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The company, which says it is based in Estonia, has previously said that it «received reports of wallets being compromised» and that it hired another cryptocurrency analytics firm, Chainalysis, to investigate the incident and track down stolen funds. Chainalysis declined comment.

North Korean cybercriminals are the prime suspects in a recent cryptocurrency heist involving the theft of a substantial $35 million. Cybersecurity analysts shared this assessment with CNN on Tuesday, pointing to telltale signs in the tactics and techniques used in the attack.

Illicit funds gained from the $35 million Atomic Wallet hack are on the move again, with sanctioned Russian-based crypto exchange Garantex reportedly becoming the latest to come in contact with the hacked crypto. 

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Rumors suggesting that Grand Theft Auto 6 will incorporate cryptocurrencies surface every once in a while, fueling expectations that the highly awaited game may incorporate digital assets as rewards for players, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as in-game goods, or even as part of the storyline's humor.