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🔸South Korean government has announced that it will be collecting a 22 percent corporate tax and a 2.2 percent local income tax from the country’s cryptocurrency exchanges.

• Local news agency Yonhap reports that South Korean government has announced Monday, Jan. 22 that it will be collecting a 22 percent corporate tax and a 2.2 percent local income tax from the country’s cryptocurrency exchanges.

• The tax announcement comes right after the conclusion of an unprecedented anti-money laundering probe into six major South Korean banks that showed a 36 times increase in commissions from virtual accounts linked to crypto exchanges, from 61 mln won ($57,340) in 2016 to 2.2 bln won ($2 mln) in 2017.

🔹Bulgarian police raids OneCoin offices. Although the servers were shut down, OneCoin currently remains operational.

• OneCoin offices were raided and its servers seized in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Jan. 17 and 18, as yet another step in a series of international raids and court cases against the highly-controversial altcoin. Although the servers were shut down, OneCoin currently remains operational.

• The company is registered officially in the United Arab Emirates as “OneCoin Ltd.,” but according to the Bulgarian police report, the company operates through

“Hundreds of affiliated companies on 4 continents [...] [which] are being investigated in England, Ireland, Italy, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and many other countries.”

🔸North Korean hackers stole funds from South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.

• North Korea is trying to steal bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from holders, and could soon start targeting people all over the world, researchers have warned.

• Cyber security experts have discovered a recent malware campaign that targeted cryptocurrency users and exchanges in South Korea.

🔹Web browser Opera adds Anti-Crypto mining protection for mobile

• Yesterday, Opera has decided to include the same feature to the mobile version of its browser, as well. According to the Vice President of Product Marketing at Opera, Jan Standal, the key purpose behind this function is to fight cryptojacking.

• According to Jan Standal:

“When you browse the web, there are no visual clues that your device is exposed to mining […] A single webpage you visit can take up to 4.5 hours of your battery time, if you keep the tab open. This often turns out to be just the battery time you needed to use a ride-hailing app or check the map to get home.”

🔸Beware! Evil Trojan switches Bitcoin addresses copied to Windows clipboard.

• Yes its true . Beware !

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