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THORChain tweeted that “The hacker deliberately limited their impact, seemingly a whitehat.” There is a second data breach in THORChain’s security system. For your information, THORChain is a cross-chain DeFi protocol that was hacked last week for the first time and suffered a loss of $8.3 million. Now it has been hacked again, and this […]
A 21-year old hacker from Rockport, MA, has admitted running a campaign over social media to hijack “high-value” account names and steal cryptocurrency. According to the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), the accused Declan Harrington has pleaded to one count of aggravated identity theft, one count of conspiracy, one count of computer fraud and […]
Ukrainian authorities have seized the illegal cryptomining farm and recovered 3,800 PlayStation 4 gaming consoles and GPUs. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has shut down an illegal cryptomining farm, which was operating at an extensive scale. According to the official report, the miners were performing their malicious activities from a utility room at a […]
The malware is capable of replacing the victim’s wallet address with one provided by its author(s). With cryptocurrencies becoming popular in the last couple of years, more and more people have turned to cryptomining hoping to benefit from the boom. In fact, this even led to the price of gaming GPUs rising. On the other […]
So far, these fake Android app developers have managed to steal money from 93,000 users and raked in around $350,000. Lookout Threat Lab security researchers identified more than 170 fake Android applications, out of which 25 were available on Google Play and scammed people interested in investing in cryptocurrencies. As for the apps on third-party […]
The targeted company Poly Network claims that hackers exploited a vulnerability between contract calls where a contract can change/modify the keeper of a contract and execute transactions. One of the industry’s leading decentralized finance platforms (DeFi) Poly Network has become a victim of a cyberheist in which hackers managed to steal $611 million worth of […]
Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison near Barcelona, Spain. 75-year-old McAfee allegedly died by Suicide on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition […]
Hackers have siphoned $611 million worth of cryptocurrencies from a blockchain-based financial network in what’s believed to be one of the largest heists targeting the digital asset industry, putting it ahead of breaches targeting exchanges Coincheck and Mt. Gox in recent years. Poly Network, a China-based cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for swapping tokens across […]
A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros ($2 million) in illegal profits. Dubbed “Crackonosh,” the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to disable antivirus programs installed in the machine and install a coin […]
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official Docker Hub account. However, the container images were configured to execute rogue commands that mine cryptocurrencies. Microsoft said […]
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with “medium-high” likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky said the campaign, dubbed “CryptoCore,” targeted crypto exchanges in […]
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with “medium-high” likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky said the campaign, dubbed “CryptoCore,” targeted crypto exchanges in […]
WallStreetBets moderators had warned of crypto scams in their name yet scammers were able to trick members into sending $2 million in Binance Coin (BNB). Real-time scams are no joke and especially not when cryptocurrency is involved. According to reports, members of the WallStreetBets (WSB) forum were scammed into a cryptocurrency deal that may have […]
If you are planning on maintaining a Bitcoin-friendly business, or just want to have an easy way of receiving crypto payments, you might want to consider the possibility of making yourself a QR code for easy Bitcoin transactions. What’s a QR code? A QR code (quick response code) is a sort of barcode that can […]
Recently, the representatives of the ETERBASE has reported on the official Telegram channel of the portal that they have become a victim of hackers. In this incident, the hackers attacked ETERBASE and successfully stole $5.4 million on September 8. ETERBASE already issued the addresses of the wallets to which the funds were transferred. Here, hackers […]
A new report revealed by digital forensics specialists claims that hackers that make up the dangerous Lazarus group are trying to inject a new fileless Trojan into victims’ devices on thousands of computers with operating system Apple macOS; to complete the attack, the hackers would be using a fake cryptocurrency exchange app. The discovery was […]
If you haven’t noticed, blockchain technology is taking the world by storm, catapulting technology into unchartered, new territory, allowing for greater transactional accuracy, and more importantly, transparency. The Motley Fool sums up the blockchain, “It’s a brand-new way of transmitting money without the need for traditional banking networks, as well as a means to store […]
Hundreds of botnets operate internationally to achieve various malicious objectives. One such botnet named Stantinko which has been operating since 2012 in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan controls over half a million computers globally. In its latest update, it has added a new capability of cryptomining making use of the highly anonymized […]
The popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UPbit has suffered a massive hack attack in which hackers have stolen 342,000 Ethereum (ETH) which at the time of publishing this article amounts to $51 million. The incident has ignited a series of reactions from industry bigwigs mainly blaming the company’s employees for the unfortunate incident. As noted […]
Despite some of them have advanced security measures, cryptocurrency exchange platforms remain one of the hackers’ favorite targets. As reported by digital forensics specialists, Upbit, a South Korean-based crypto exchange platform, has been the victim of a cyberattack that led to the theft of 342k Ethereum units, equivalent to $48.5M USD at current exchange rate. […]
GetMonero.org, the official website of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero was hacked to inject coin stealing malware on the systems of the people who were downloading the Morero wallet. This comes after a number of users reported that the hashes of the CLI [Command Line Interface] binaries downloaded from the website in order to set up […]