Mastercard has added “cryptocurrency merchants” and “high-risk securities merchants” to the Business Risk Assessment and Mitigation (BRAM) program, effective 12 April 2018. Below is an extract of the announcements and shall not be deemed the full version of such...
Due to an intense rise in recognition and value of cryptocurrencies over recent years, extracting these digital coins – called cryptomining, have become worthwhile, facilitating an increase in computer hijacks. While cryptomining requires a high amount of CPU power,...