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The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the activities planned for this year, such that there have been postponements worldwide including the Olympic Games which was suppose to hold in Tokyo. The postponement of the Olympic Games has prompted various online scams related to cryptocurrency. This includes emails from alleged members of the International Olympic Committee in which scammers solicit donations from unwary victims. According to a report by Trend Micro on April 30, scammers are soliciting for cryptocurrency donations towards Japanese organizers’…

Following the press release on the 8th of January this year, the report elaborated on the joint efforts established in collaboration between Trend Micro and Interpol that significantly target the issues dealing with cryptojacking that primarily affects MikroTik routers mostly in the regions of southeast Asia. The impact on the hash rates presented in cryptocurrency mining has not been significantly affected, even based on this act of collaboration between the two organizations. However, there has been a significant reflection on the decreased cryptojacking incidents based on…