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PortuguêsDon’t read this Kaspersky report if you’re prone to paranoia. The cybersecurity experts and antivirus manufacturers released its annual “Cyberthreats to financial organizations” paper and two items are about cryptocurrencies.…
Continue ReadingHackers, for the most part, usually target institutional crypto investors and exchanges. But since the adoption of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin became more mainstream, these hackers started targeting small individual investors.…
Continue ReadingJoseph O’Connor indicted on a raft of wire fraud, computer hacking, money laundering and identify theft counts. Joseph O’Connor, known in some corners of the internet as PlugWalkJoe, was indicted…
Continue ReadingDeFi has become a popular attack vector for cybercriminals. After a highly ambitious launch, THORChain suffered two major exploits in July. Cross-chain liquidity protocol THORChain has fully recovered from two…
Continue ReadingMalicious actors continue to target decentralized finance projects for their exploits. On Wednesday, a major DeFi lending platform suffered a flash loan attack. Decentralized lending platform Cream Finance appears to…
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement authorities in Ukraine have exposed a crime ring specializing in cryptocurrency theft and laundering of illicit funds for hackers. The gang, which provided services to clients on the…
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) attributes the attacks to a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, who sell the hacked YouTube channels to the highest bidder. A new…
Continue Reading3.1 million email addresses linked to CoinMarketCap accounts were reportedly being traded on hacking forums, according to Have I Been Pwned. CoinMarketCap, a price-tracking website for cryptocurrencies, has reportedly fallen…
Continue ReadingThe white hat hacker speculated that the bug might have been created from “using someone else’s code and not having a 100% understanding of what it does.” White hat hacker…
Continue ReadingHackers leveraged a vulnerability in the bitcoin exchange‘s SMS recovery system to steal cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers. Coinbase, a major U.S.-based bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, disclosed today that a hacker…
Continue ReadingHackers took over the Bitcoin.org website and displayed the classic double your money scam for a few minutes today. Apparently, it was a DNS hack. Luckily, the Bitcoin community took…
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, the pseudonymous operator of Bitcoin.org told the public on Twitter that the web portal has been “compromised.” The operator, Cobra, explained that the hackers were able to implement…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa’s Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) has denied claims that it has received a 50 bitcoin ransom demand from hackers that attacked its systems on September 6,…
Continue ReadingVee Finance says it suffered a $35-million attack just a few days after launching its mainnet on Avalanche last week. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Vee Finance reported $35 million in…
Continue ReadingZabu confirmed that the attacker successfully pulled out 4.5 billion tokens in Zabu Farm Contract and stole around $600K. Zabu Finance, a DeFi application on the Avalanche blockchain, has reportedly…
Continue ReadingUnknown scammers have organized a fake bitcoin giveaway through a Russian government website they hacked. The news of the attack comes after a recent report revealed that damages from crypto-related…
Continue ReadingCream Finance has identified the AMP integration error that caused a nearly $19 million loss for the protocol and aims to pay users back. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance…
Continue ReadingThe Cream Finance hacker gained $18.8 million by exploiting a reentrancy bug in the AMP token in a set of 17 transactions. Cream Finance, a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol…
Continue ReadingBilaxy cryptocurrency exchange is yet to announce the value of funds lost to a hacking incident that occurred on Aug 28. Bilaxy, a lesser-known cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed a major…
Continue ReadingThere has been a lot of compromise in the crypto industry, that Coinbase has decided to take that fight against criminals to a new level. Even top protocols have lost…
Continue ReadingChanging an intelligence agency’s perspective on crypto crime is the next step toward a successful crypto investigation. While the value of cryptocurrencies has varied wildly in the last year, this…
Continue Reading“Binance Smart Chain is becoming an important hub for developers looking to build applications, as demonstrated by the number of DeFi and NFT projects launched on the platform,” said Aaron…
Continue Reading“Poly Network has no intention of holding Mr. White Hat legally responsible,” said the team. Decentralized finance protocol Poly Network has offered the person behind a $610 million hack an…
Continue ReadingThere is a silver lining from the DeFi hacks as new tech develops to protect the sector: “DeFi will be much safer in 12 months from now.” The rise of…
Continue ReadingThe security company has now raised $61 million in two months and over $70 million since inception. Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Coinbase Ventures are among CertiK’s early backers. Blockchain…
Continue ReadingThe United States is offering crypto assets to incentivize white-hat hackers to uncover state-sponsored actors and potential terrorists on the dark web. The United States government is offering rewards in…
Continue ReadingAttendees of the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas were introduced to a new advertisement crafted by the U.S. State Department. According to individuals who accessed the government advertisement…
Continue Reading“We need to dispel the myth that crypto assets are anonymous. The reality is that with the right rules and applications they can be tracked, traced and recovered,” said Syedur…
Continue Reading“The poly did offered a bounty, but I have never responded to them. Instead, I will send all of their money back,” said the hacker. The hacker behind a $610…
Continue ReadingCipherBlade is conducting an investigation into the hack and has identified a Binance account associated with the attacker. Hackers have stolen funds out of more than 5,000 user accounts with…
Continue ReadingThe Poly Network hacker said they will return the stolen cryptocurrency funds, and have asked for a secured multisig wallet. Following a massive $600 million exploit of cross-chain protocol Poly…
Continue ReadingPaolo Ardoino reported Tether had frozen roughly $33 million in USDT from one of the affected addresses. In what may be the largest attack in decentralized finance, unknown hackers used…
Continue ReadingThe IT firm denies that it paid a ransom to the Russian hacker group in exchange for the decryption tool. IT software provider, Kaseya, has announced it is providing its…
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