SECURITY PROBLEMS OF CRYPTO-CURRENCY SERVICES

Abstract

Currently, both BlockChain technology itself and crypto-currencies, associated with this technology, are growing in popularity. In the Internet, the services related to BlockChain are gaining more and more popularity, including crypto-exchanges, ICO-sites. With the growth of investments in crypto assets, the attention of hackers to these technologies also grows; the number of specialized attacks directed namely at new BlockChain services is increasing. The growing attention to new technologies can be seen in all countries. This tendency hasn’t passed byRussian Federation— both at the all-national level and at the level of the subjects of the Federation. However, active integration of BlockChain technologies into the practice of financial and other regulation is not currently accompanied by the due attention of the experts in the sphere of cybersecurity. The analysis of the actual situation shows that the provision of economic and political security of the country demands watchful attention to this question. The article provides the examples of possible attacks on crypto-currency services as well as the options for the protection against such attacks.