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Your computer may be making Bitcoin​ for hackers Spike in value of digital currencies gives cyber criminals a new way to earn money that is less disruptive than ransomware Hackers are commandeering the horsepower of unwitting victims’ computers to secretly generate cryptocurrencies, hoping to cash in as the price of bitcoin has soared to $6,000. New forms of malicious software have mushroomed, appearing on hacked desktop computers, and hackers are sneaking code that generates digital currency on misconfigured cloud-computing servers and even on websites, which have been reprogrammed so visiting browsers become unsuspecting digital-currency generators. Digital currencies such as bitcoin need a broad network of computers to process transactions. To lure participants, they pay off the computers that join the network with newly minted digital currency. These computers are called miners. A typical personal computer can crank out about one bitcoin every 4½ years, according ...

You can now send and receive money in Facebook Messenger through PayPal Back in 2015, Facebook made it easier for its users to send and receive money through its Messenger app. Then in April this year, the company introduced Group Payments in Messenger. Now, the company has announced the introduction of peer-to-peer payments through PayPal in Messenger. With the introduction of peer-to-peer payments, Facebook Messengers users can now send and receive money from their friends through PayPal – either in a group chat or a personal chat. To send or request money, Just tap the blue colored + icon  Then tap on the green colored $ icon After that, enter the amount that you want to send or request Add a note if you want  And then tap on ‘Pay’ You will then be asked to link your PayPal account or  your credit/debit card. After that, select PayPal as the payment method by tapping on ‘Change’ if you had used any other payment method on Messenger before.  On...