2022 was indeed a challenging year for the crypto industry, marked by significant declines in the value of major assets, liquidity issues for many firms, and an unfortunate number of bankruptcy filings. The industry also faced substantial security threats as hackers stole billions of dollars from users and DeFi protocols. A report by blockchain security...Read More
The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg with violating federal commodities laws during his $110 million manipulation attack in October. The commission seeks various forms of penalties and relief from the attacker, some of which include trading bans, restitution, and disgorgement. Eisenberg’s Crime Per the complaint filed on...Read More
The digital asset industry witnessed many unprecedented events in 2022, making it one of the worst years in crypto history. Despite the challenges, cybercrime activity significantly reduced in December compared to previous months, like October, which saw a surge in crypto hacks and thefts. According to blockchain security firm CertiK, the industry suffered losses of...Read More
Cryptocurrency firms struggled greatly in 2022, with multiple companies facing financial issues and bankruptcy. In addition to these challenges, over $3 billion was stolen from crypto projects this year, according to Forbes. These setbacks have caused turmoil in the industry and raised concerns about its stability. According to the report, crypto projects witnessed more than...Read More
Cryptocurrency investor Avraham Eisenberg has been arrested in Puerto Rico on charges of commodities fraud and manipulation for allegedly stealing more than $100 million from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Mango Markets. This marks the first time a U.S. resident has faced charges for manipulating a DeFi platform. Eisenberg Drains $110M from Mango Markets Recall that...Read More
This December 27, Kaspersky Lab announced that the North Korean hacking group ‘BlueNoroff’ stole millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies after creating more than 70 fake domains and impersonating banks and venture capital firms. According to the investigation, most of the domains mimicked Japanese venture capital firms, denoting a strong interest in user and company data...Read More
Cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock has disclosed that a threat actor is trying to sell the users’ data of 400 million Twitter customers containing private information about celebrities, politicians, and companies. Some of the big names include former U.S. President Donald Trump, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, billionaire investor Mark Cuban,...Read More
Cybercrimes are increasing both in numbers and sophistication. The latest to find itself on the receiving end was the Bitcoin mining pool, BTC.com, which announced suffering a cyber attack on December 3rd. The perpetrators siphoned certain digital assets worth $700,000 owned by BTC.com’s clients and nearly $2.3 million in asset value owned by its parent...Read More
DeFi criminals have been observed to cash in on the ‘spirit of giving.’ Decentralized finance protocol Defrost Finance became the latest victim of a flash loan attack on December 23rd that drained funds in the V2. The attacker used the owner key for the second time to exploit V1. According to the Twitter thread by...Read More
PeckShield, the blockchain analytics and security company, reported earlier today that some BitKeep wallet users had their funds drained from the platform. According to the current estimations, the total amount stolen is roughly $8 million in various digital assets. After Hacktober, which was the worst month in the crypto industry in terms of hacks and...Read More
Immunefi, a leading bug bounty platform for the cryptocurrency industry, has paid out a total of $65 million to white hat hackers since its founding in 2020. These ethical hackers search for vulnerabilities in smart contracts and blockchain projects and are rewarded for reporting them to Immunefi. This helps to secure users’ assets and prevent...Read More
Raydium – a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) – was hacked for over $2 million on Friday. According to Raydium, the hacker appears to have taken control of the exchange’s admin address to carry out the attack. Over $2 Million Lost Raydium acknowledged the hack over Twitter, noting that investigations were still ongoing. It provided a...Read More
Microsoft revealed that malicious entities are getting more sophisticated by the day. According to a new report, Telegram chat groups are being used to target cryptocurrency investment companies. The tech giant identified a threat actor – DEV-0139 – who infiltrated Telegram groups posing as a representative of a crypto platform. Targetted Attacks Against Crypto Companies...Read More
Another multi-million dollar hack has hit the decentralized finance space. The latest victim is BNB Chain-based DeFi protocol – Ankr. Initial reports suggest that a vulnerability in its code that enabled unlimited minting of tokens was exploited. Ankr promptly confirmed the attack and added that it has reached out to other decentralized exchanges urging them...Read More
On-chain sleuth ZackXBT has tracked down some of the mixed Bitcoin funds stolen by the mysterious FTX hacker this month. The analyst found that $4.1 million worth of Bitcoin (255 BTC) has ended up on OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange. As explained on Twitter, the hacker initially deposited the stolen funds to CoinMixer – an anonymous...Read More
The cryptocurrency industry saw the spectacular collapse of one of its giants earlier this month, which ultimately resulted in FTX filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Shortly after, though, there were suspicious movements from one of its accounts, many related it to a hack or even an inside job. However, the Securities Commission of the Bahamas...Read More
Less than a week after exploiting the leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit, the attacker started moving the stolen funds. As of November 5, the hacker had moved 1,610 Ether (ETH) worth over $2.5 million to the U.S.-sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash, leaving a balance of about 7,501 ETH in the address. What Happened? On November...Read More
Last month was quite spooky for the crypto industry as it saw the highest number of DeFi hacks this year. While October was expected to be “Uptober,” it quickly turned to “Hacktober” as cyber criminals ransacked top crypto projects for hundreds of millions of dollars. Hackers Steal $760M From DeFi Protocols A recent tweet by...Read More
Blockchain-based gaming platform Gala Games claimed that “everything is fine” after reports of billion-dollar-rug pull surfaced. It all started with a misconfiguration of the pNetwork bridge triggering the additional issuance of GALA GAME, following which a large number of additional tokens were recharged and sold on Huobi. This, in turn, caused GALA to fall by...Read More
SKYWARD, the native token of NEAR-based platform Skyward Finance, plunged by 95% after the protocol’s treasury lost $3 million in a smart contract exploit. The attack occurred in the late hours of Wednesday and was first reported by Twitter user Sanket Naikwadi before Skyward Finance publicly acknowledged the incident. How it Happened According to Naikwadi,...Read More
With “Hacktober” ending in a few days, yet another crypto platform has been added to the list of crypto protocols that have lost millions of dollars worth of digital assets to hackers this month. Earlier today, cryptocurrency vesting platform Team Finance announced it had become the latest victim after losing $14.5 million to a bug...Read More
Binance is on the verge of uncovering the hacker(s) behind the $570 million exploit on its cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, earlier this month. In a recent interview with CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box Europe,’ Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said the firm had received substantial tips from law enforcement authorities to identify the hacker(s) that drained...Read More
The Optimism bridge supporting privacy coin BitBTC is actively being exploited for 200 billion BitBTC tokens. Due to the technicals of the hack, the BitBTC team now has less than 7 days to implement an upgrade to minimize the damages. A Poorly Designed Bridge According to Arbitrum tech lead Lee Bousfield on Twitter, the BitBTC...Read More
Crypto wallet provider BitKeep Wallet has become the latest victim of an endless wave of DeFi hacks this month. Blockchain security firm PeckShield first raised the alarm on Twitter late Monday, and BitKeep published an update on the incident in the early hours of Tuesday. After alerting the public, the security firm asked users to...Read More
Over the weekend, Japanese local media reported that Lazarus has been attacking local crypto companies, according to the National Police Agency. The group has been using social engineering, such as sending phishing emails to employees at crypto companies or using social media to lure them into installing malware. Phishing is a technique where targeted emails...Read More
With data pointing to a potentially bullish month for Bitcoin, speculators are calling it “Uptober.” After September’s “Rektember,” investors typically look forward to October, which has historically been kinder to the crypto market for years. Bitcoin, for one, has been green seven times over the last nine Octobers, with the only red ones coming in...Read More
Reports are emerging this morning of an attack on the TempleDAO yield farming protocol. The alert came in from blockchain security firm PeckShield on Oct. 11, stating that the attacker had transferred 1,831 ETH worth around $2.34 million from the protocol. Details are thin on the ground at the moment, but the exploit appears to...Read More
QANplatform – a quantum-resistant layer 1 blockchain – lost $1 million to a hacker who targeted the network’s blockchain bridge. Since the attack, its native QANX token has suffered a price collapse of over 90%. The Latest Bridge Attack At 05:01 EST on Tuesday, QANplatform tweeted that its smart contract bridge had been hacked and...Read More
Last week, TransitFinance was exploited by multiple hackers who made off with nearly $23 million in ETH, Binance-pegged ETH, and BNB. Since then, the project – which collaborated with PeckShield and other blockchain security firms – stated that it had tracked the attackers and knew, with relative certainty, who they truly were. Most funds have...Read More
Binance has announced a pause across the entire Binance Smart Chain (BSC or BNB Chain) following what appears to be one of the largest exploits in DeFi history. An attacker has reportedly hacked another BNB chain user for 2 million BNB, worth $600 million. Another DeFi Catastrophe According to BNB Chain on Twitter, the “temporary”...Read More
