Amaya Toman Among the most prominent events of the beginning of this week was the announcement of Musk's car company Tesla, according to which the company decided to invest one and a half billion in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Tesla also intends to introduce support for payment for its products in Bitcoins in the near future. Of course, the announcement had an immediate effect on the demand for Bitcoin, which spiked almost immediately. In our roundup of the day's events, we will also talk about the popular social network TikTok, which, according to reliable sources, is currently looking for ways to allow creators to monetize content along with paid promotion and product purchases. In the end, we will talk about a completely new phishing attack, which, however, uses a very old principle for its operation.
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Vratislav Holub Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin
Earlier this week, Tesla said it had invested 1,5 billion in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The electric car manufacturer stated this fact in its annual report and on this occasion stated that it also plans to accept Bitcoin payments in the foreseeable future. Tesla customers have long urged its founder and CEO Elon Musk to start accepting Bitcoins as another way to pay for cars. Musk has expressed himself several times in a very positive way about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin in particular, last week he praised the Dogecoin cryptocurrency on his Twitter for a change. In its statement, Tesla said, among other things, that it updated its investment terms as of January this year to ensure greater flexibility and maximize its returns. The news about the investment was understandably not without consequences, and the price of Bitcoin rose rapidly again not long after - and the demand for this cryptocurrency is also increasing. Except investment in Bitcoin Earlier this week, Tesla also announced that we will see a significant redesign of its Model S this March. In addition to the new design, the novelty will also boast a brand new interior and a number of improvements.
TikTok is entering the e-commerce space
According to the latest news, it looks like the popular platform TikTok is going to officially enter the e-commerce sector and significantly increase its efforts in this direction, following the example of a number of other well-known social networks. This was reported by CNET, citing sources close to ByteDance. According to these sources, TikTok creators should soon have a feature that would allow them to share various products and earn a commission from their sales. The mentioned function should be put into operation within the social network TikTok during this year. It's also rumored that TikTok could allow brands to promote their own products later this year, and even introduce "live purchases" where users can buy products they've spotted in a video from one of their favorite creators. ByteDance has not yet made an official statement regarding any of the listed options. TikTok is currently the only popular digital platform that can boast of a large audience and at the same time offers very little opportunity to monetize its content.
Morse code in phishing
Perpetrators of phishing and other similar attacks usually use the most modern technologies and procedures for their activities. But this week, TechRadar reported a phishing scam based on the traditional Morse code. The Morse code in this case allows you to successfully bypass anti-phishing detection software in email clients. At first glance, the emails of this phishing campaign are not particularly different from standard phishing messages - they contain a notification of an incoming invoice and an HTML attachment that at first glance looks like an Excel spreadsheet. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that the attachment contained JavaScript inputs that corresponded to letters and numbers in Morse code. The script simply uses the "decodeMorse()" function to translate the Morse code into a hexadecimal string. The mentioned phishing campaign appears to target businesses in particular – it has appeared in Dimensional, Capital Four, Dea Capita and several others.
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