It appears that hackers are finding new avenues to exploit non-suspecting victims and take advantage of their computing power. This time, the primary tool to use are leaks of the new Spide-Man: No Way Home movie. Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered on December 17th, 2021 – merely a week ago, in the US. For the short...Read More
The self-described compounding yield optimizer – Grim Finance – has reported being hacked in a reentrancy exploit with the attacker swiping up to $30 million worth of Fantom tokens. The DeFi protocol took it to Twitter on Sunday to inform its users about the hack. The team described it as an “advanced attack,” in which...Read More
AscendEX, a cryptocurrency exchange that recently celebrated its third anniversary, confirmed that numerous tokens were maliciously transferred out of its hot wallet earlier today. While the firm is yet to affirm the total amount stolen, early estimations show that the funds are worth roughly $80 million. The company admitted to detecting an undisclosed number of...Read More
Bitmart has confirmed that it was hacked, with early estimations indicating that the total amount swiped is around $200 million in various cryptocurrencies. Sheldon Xia, founder and CEO of the exchange, asserted that the company has temporarily suspended withdrawals. Users on Twitter started to complain about a possible security breach against Bitmart earlier on December...Read More
MonoX, a decentralized finance project providing single token pools, has become the latest hack victim, in which early estimations show that the perpetrators managed to take more than $30 million in various cryptocurrencies. The protocol took it to Twitter to confirm the breach, explaining that a “method in the swap contract was exploited and boosted...Read More
The popular investment app Robinhood announced recently that it experienced a data security breach on November 3, 2021. The incident gave the attackers access to personal information belonging to millions of users on the platform. The “unauthorized party” gained access to the customer support system via a social engineering technique, Robinhood stated in a blog...Read More
The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange has admitted to being exploited earlier this year when hackers stole assets from approximately 6,000 users. The company vowed to reimburse all affected users. According to a copy of the letter sent to the affected customers, which was available on the website of California’s Attorney General, the exploits took place...Read More
Fake cryptocurrency giveaway scams continue to pop up frequently, and the latest victim is the oldest bitcoin educational resource – BitcoinOrg. As of now, though, the website has been taken down, and the pseudonymous developer operating it has blamed it on Cloudflare. Earlier on September 23rd, users on Twitter outlined that the BitcoinOrg website has...Read More
A contract address belonging to the DeFi lending platform Vee finance has been exploited with the perpetrator swiping 8,800 ETH and 214 BTC. The attacker has not moved the funds yet, as Vee’s team claiming they have initiated contact to resolve the incident. The protocol announced hours ago that it had halted all services as...Read More
In an update to a blog post from months prior, Coinbase has withdrawn its plans to launch a USDC APY lending program on the platform in response to mounting legal pressure from regulators. Coinbase Bends to the SEC The news was quietly released this Friday when Coinbase updated its June blog post that announced an...Read More
The cross-chain DeFi protocol, pNetwork, has informed that it has become the latest victim of a security breach. By leveraging a codebase bug, the unknown perpetrator has stolen 277 bitcoins. As announced by the team behind the project, the hacker “was able to leverage a bug in our codebase and attack pBTC” on the Binance...Read More
How did the hacker escape the police? -He Ransomware. Jokes aside, the victims of the infamous REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware now have a reason to celebrate, as they can have access to their files again. A few hours ago, the cybersecurity company Bitdefender announced that it succesfully developed a tool to decrypt files altered by the REvil/Sodinokibi...Read More
The popular DeFi protocol Cream Finance, which became the latest hack victim earlier this week, will allocate 20% of all the fees it charges to repay the affected customers. Additionally, the project has offered a bug bounty to the still unknown perpetrators and up to 50% for third parties who can assist with recovering the...Read More
Bilaxy, a Seychelles-based digital asset trading platform, reported earlier on August 29th that some of its wallets were compromised. While the exchange hasn’t confirmed the amount stolen yet, some estimations claim that it could be around $450 million in various cryptocurrencies. Bilaxy’s official Telegram channel saw several updates today indicating that the platform had temporarily...Read More
In 2017, before the cryptocurrency frenzy began, Didi Taihuttu made the decision of a lifetime: he sold all his assets and bought Bitcoin… at $900. Perhaps he was super happy a few months later when he achieved a 20X ROI, but now, with each coin trading above $46,000, Taihuttu has to think very hard about...Read More
THORChain is the latest DeFi project to be exploited, with estimations showing that the hackers might have swooped up to $7.6 million in digital assets. The team behind the decentralized exchange promised to make whole all affected users and requested the perpetrators to contact them to discuss the return of funds. THORChain highlighted the hack...Read More
The Biden administration reportedly plans to take severe measures on the use of digital assets in ransomware attacks by starting to track such transactions. Crypto Tracing to Combat Cyber Attacks The governing body of the USA discussed how to combat the growing number of ransomware attacks during a virtual briefing with members of Congress. According...Read More
Last year turned out to be a record-breaking one in terms of blocked computer cryptojacking attempts for cryptocurrency mining, reported the Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky. Although the firm noted it had stopped millions of cases, it also warned people about the potential threats. Cryptojacking in 2020 When an attacker gains unauthorized access to a computer...Read More
The hacker managed to steal $6.2 million worth of BUSD, the Binance native USD-pegged stablecoin converted to ETH via 1inch DEX and partially withdrawn from Binance Smart Chain onto Ethereum. This hack was comparatively benign: only $6.2 million was stolen from Belt Finance’s massive $2.6 billion total value locked (TVL). The beltBUSD vault uses four...Read More
$50 million worth of various cryptocurrencies has disappeared from the automated market maker platform running on the Binance Smart Chain – Uranium Finance. While the team behind the project claims the funds were stolen, the cryptocurrency community speculates of a possible rug pull. $50M Gone From Uranium Finance The DeFi project took it to Twitter...Read More
The tech giant Microsoft has integrated the Intel Threat Detection Technology into its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This should increase detection ability and enhance protection against cryptojacking malware. The New Addition and Its Technology During the last few years, the primary cryptocurrency along with the many other altcoins have significantly appreciated in value which caused...Read More
A few months after it filed a lawsuit against Ripple for conducting an unregistered security offering, the SEC has done the same against another blockchain project. This time, it’s going for LBRY – a project operating a decentralized content publishing platform. $11M Worth of Unregistered Securities Offering? Based in New Hampshire, US, LBRY Inc is...Read More
Two suspects have been accused of stealing almost $500,000 from unsuspecting victims in fraudulent bitcoin transactions in Hong Kong. Fake It Till You Steal It According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Tuesday (Mar. 23, 2021), the victims, aged 33 and 31, were deceived by two con artists in a fake...Read More
The leading payment processor, PayPal, announced today that it has agreed to purchase the digital asset custody company, Curv. It said that it will complete the acquisition in the first quarter of the year. Rumors Confirmed True As PayPal Acquire Curv Reports surfaced last week that PayPal was planning to acquire cryptocurrency security firm, Curv....Read More
With the impending legal battle between the SEC and Ripple, the CEO of the payment processor said that XRP will endure even if the company doesn’t. Simultaneously, Jesse Powell, the CEO of the veteran US exchange, Kraken, believes that offering XRP trading carries “huge asymmetrical risk.” XRP Will Endure, Says Ripple CEO Ever since the...Read More
Verge, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency, reportedly suffered an attempted 51% attack, causing a massive blockchain reorganization, which wiped off over six months of transactions. 200 Days Worth of Verge Transactions Wiped Off The issue was first revealed by Antoine Le Calvez, chief data engineer at blockchain research company Coin Metrics. Tweeting on February 15, Le Calvez...Read More
CREAM Finance, one of the more popular projects in the field of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), has been exploited. The price for its CREAM token has dropped by 30% in less than a few minutes after the news broke out. The official Twitter account of CREAM Finance revealed earlier today that the protocol has been exploited....Read More
The brokerage arm of the South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group is reportedly set to acquire a 6.15% stake in Dunamu – the operator of the popular cryptocurrency exchange UPbit. The deal will take place on February 22nd, 2021. According to the KoreaHerald coverage, Hanwha Investment and Securities has agreed to buy 2.06 million shares...Read More
Months after suffering one of the worst hacks in crypto history, the popular exchange KuCoin has announced it had successfully recovered all stolen funds. The company’s CEO reassured that no customer has sustained any financial loss following the event. KuCoin Recovers Stolen Funds As reported back in September 2020, a group of unknown attackers exploited...Read More
The privacy coin Firo, which is formerly known as Zcoin, is currently going through a 51% attack. The team is yet to share further details, though they’ve clarified that they are working with exchanges and pools at the time of this writing. Privacy coin Firo is currently going through what is known as a “51%...Read More
