Venezuelan news website TeleSUR has published the statement of the president, Nicolás Maduro, that the pre-sale of the oil cryptocurrency Petro (PTR) gathered 5 billion US dollars.

Yesterday, March 8, Microsoft stopped the functioning of the new malicious software Dofoil, also known as Smoke Loader, which tried to infect computers with cryptocurrency miner. Around 400 thousand users, mainly in Russia, could have gotten under the virus attack.

Russia plans to carry out consults concerning Venezuelan cryptocurrency, reported Russian informational agency TASS.