Daily Roundup – June 19, 2017

According to SC Media, a web hosting company in South Korea has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to hackers in a ransomware scheme. The strain of ransomware used in the attack was Erebus, and the web hosting provider in question was NAYANA.
According to CoinDesk, bitcoin miners have united around the SegWit2x scaling proposal. Roughly 70 percent of the network hashrate is already signaling support for the proposal in each block they mine, although the mining pools will not actually run code for