2022-12-28 21:19 |
State-sponsored Lazarus Group and associated hackers have had a busy year, and 2023 may see even more activity, the cybersecurity lab warned.
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Intelligence officials say that out of $620 million in crypto stolen by North Korean hackers this year, none were related to South Korea.
2022-12-22 19:27 | |
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Crypto hackers surpassed the level of performance they did last year that enabled them to get away with $2.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies, setting their own “all-time high” this 2022. With still over two months left before the year ends, these cybercriminals have already carted off with $3 billion worth of cryptocurrencies, CBS News reported […]
2022-10-14 16:05 | |
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2022 is a rough year for the DeFi ecosystem as hackers continue exploiting the community. From the beginning of the year till now, news of DeFi protocol exploits keeps flooding the crypto industry. So the question is: why do hackers keep targeting decentralized finance protocols? Today’s report reveals that three DeFi protocols have suffered hack […]
2022-10-13 05:02 | |
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Jason Falovitch, serial tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Leverage, has recently lost $150,000 worth of non-fungible tokens (NFT) in cyber fraud. CEO of Leverage Loses $150,000 in NFTs Hackers have always been a threat to NFT owners. Earlier this year,…
2022-9-27 12:30 | |
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Jason Falovitch, serial tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Leverage, has recently lost $150,000 worth of non-fungible tokens (NFT) in cyber fraud. CEO of Leverage Loses $150,000 in NFTs Hackers have always been a threat to NFT owners. Earlier this year,…
2022-9-27 12:30 | |
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This week, hackers used a vulnerability on the Nomad bridge to steal $190 million worth of crypto.
2022-8-4 14:28 | |
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Despite the drop in bitcoin prices at the beginning of the year, thieves did not take a break. Hackers and scammers made millions of dollars from attacks on numerous crypto projects and ecosystems. According to the Atlas VPN team’s new research, blockchain hackers stole approximately $1.
2022-4-27 05:49 | |
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After a huge year in 2021, hackers are continuing to target Defi platforms in Q1 2022. Chainalysis reported in a recent study about the increasing trend of malicious activities in the current year.
2022-4-16 01:30 | |
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Crypto hackers have been making off with billions of dollars from the market every year. These hackers who find vulnerabilities in the products being used by investors have been known to cart away hundreds of millions at a time.
2022-4-6 20:00 | |
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One of many sectors that boomed exponentially within the cryptocurrency sector last year was that of non-fungible tokens (NFT). Its growth in sales volume from just around $94 million in 2020 to $24.
2022-2-4 18:30 | |
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It’s not just lucky investors getting rich from crypto. Hackers have made off with billions of dollars in virtual assets in the past year by compromising some of the cryptocurrency exchanges that hThe post Grim Finance targeted by 'advanced' hack; losses of over $30 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-12-19 12:30 | |
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Over the course of this year, DarkSide, a group of Russian hackers got the attention of the U. S. Department of State. In May 2021, DarkSide was responsible for a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, extorting $5M for not leaking data they had on the Pipeline’s network.
2021-11-18 16:26 | |
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Ransomware attacks in the U. S. have been on a rise since late 2020, but it is particularly booming in 2021. This year, hackers have hit numerous U. S. companies in large-scale hacks. One such attack on pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline led to temporary fuel supply shortages on the U.
2021-10-17 23:00 | |
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Coinbase has released a breach notification letter this week saying that a minimum of 6,000 user accounts were victim to hackers. The exchange has stated that the breach took place between March and May of this year.
2021-10-2 10:39 | |
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Cream Finance has been attacked by cyber criminals, who managed to steal around $18 million in cryptocurrencies from it, pushing AMP and CREAM down
2021-8-30 10:58 | |
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Blockchain and crypto analytic firm Chainalysis has released its mid-year findings, which show that ransomware victims have paid approximately $81 million worth of crypto this year. The company noted that the $81 million figure is likely to rise in the coming days as more ransomware addresses are identified and, as such, the figure should be […] The post Hackers Have Received Over M in Crypto since January Due to Ransomware: Chainalysis Report first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-5-17 18:59 | |
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In this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson discuss North Korea reportedly stealing your crypto to create nuclear weapons, Tesla rattling markets at an opportune time and Nigeria trying to ban crypto.
2021-2-15 12:00 | |
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U.N. experts estimate that over $316 million in crypto was stolen by North Korea-linked hackers last year.
2021-2-10 18:19 | |
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A new malware, dubbed ElectroRAT has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Intezer Labs; the remote access Trojan (RAT) targets crypto wallet users and has been operational for the past year according to the report published on Jan 5.
2021-1-8 23:41 | |
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The crypto world is full of malicious hackers and other serious threats to your digital assets. CyberGhost VPN, which is trusted by over 36 million users globally, can help protect your security when making online transactions and payments.
2021-1-1 14:00 | |
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As bitcoin surpassed its 2017 all-time high on Monday morning, a few hours later 5,045 BTC or $97 million worth of bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex hack was transferred. The hackers that stole the funds four years ago have moved the bitcoins numerous times this year.
2020-12-1 10:30 | |
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Hackers have stolen $100 million from decentralized finance (Defi) projects so far this year, according to a new report. Defi accounted for 50% of all hacks and thefts in the second half of the year.
2020-11-11 22:15 | |
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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol, bZx, has been hit by the third exploit this year. This time, it is believed that the hackers made off with approximately $8 million worth of digital assets.
2020-9-15 23:25 | |
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Hackers were able to infiltrate the DeFi lending protocol bZx and stole more than $8 million worth of cryptocurrencies. This is not the first time the DeFi protocol has been attacked this year. This time, the hackers were 8 times more potent than the previous attack on the margin and leverage-based trading and lending platform.
2020-9-14 14:30 | |
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According to a report by F-secure, a Finland-based cybersecurity company, hackers from the infamous Lazarus group targeted a crypto firm in an attack last year.
2020-8-26 18:50 | |
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This year due to the coronavirus outbreak the world-famous hackers’ convention Defcon held it’s 28th annual event with virtual presentations in “safe mode. ” One of the presentations was from an executive from Pyrofex, Michael Stay, who discussed how he broke into an encrypted file to liberate $300,000 worth of bitcoin for a Russian investor.
2020-8-12 03:30 | |
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Some of the 119,756 Bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex hack in 2016 is on the move again according to updates from Whale Alert. The blockchain and analytics tracker whose focus is on large transactions noted that $12 million worth of the stolen BTC has been moved within the past six days. This comes barely a […]
2020-8-4 16:41 | |
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More than 1,000 Twitter employees and contractors reportedly had access to Twitter’s “God mode” earlier this year, before the recent large-scale hack that saw many high-profile accounts tweet about a bitcoin giveaway.
2020-7-26 19:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020.
2020-7-25 11:33 | |
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Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020.
2020-7-24 11:33 | |
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Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin.
2020-7-20 01:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency Giveaway scams are nothing new, but this year they have been the go-to method for hackers who have made and are expected to continue making millions of dollars from it. In the past week, we have reported on so many giveaway scams, most of which were carried out on YouTube. However, it looks like […]
2020-7-17 19:25 | |
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It’s true that the crypto space is awash with criminal masterminds looking to make a buck off the back of unsuspecting victims. Every year, multiple incidents are reported where fraudsters, hackers, and other thieves make away with huge crypto stashes.
2020-6-3 20:09 | |
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Cybersecurity is big business. And it costs big businesses a lot of money every year (not to mention a few panic attacks and sleepless nights). But as hackers get more… The post How Blockchain Can Fill the Talent Gap in Cybersecurity and AI appeared first on CoinCentral.
2020-6-18 17:09 | |
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KPMG reports that since the year that came prior to the crypto winter, cyber-criminals have managed to steal almost $10 bln in crypto. Particular reasons are named
2020-3-2 18:13 | |
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Hacking attacks on crypto exchanges are becoming the norm, according to a recent report by Chainalysis. However, this also means that platforms are much better prepared, which explains why the total value of stolen crypto funds declined last year.
2020-1-23 19:00 | |
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Hackers are getting more sophisticated, breaching a greater number of crypto exchanges in 2019 compared to the previous year. Chainalysis has published an initial overview of its 2020 Crypto Crime report.
2020-1-23 04:50 | |
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Upbit, a top South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange that lost $51 million worth of ether (ETH) to hackers last year, has announced that it has resumed deposits and withdrawals for the altcoin, reports Business Korea on January 14, 2019.
2020-1-14 12:00 | |
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In the cat-and-mouse game between hackers and users, less-lucrative crypto-mining malware fell out of favor this year.
2019-12-18 06:00 | |
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Hackers can steal crypto payments by using a relatively new malware that replaces the receiving address between copying and pasting. Don’t CTRL+C CTRL +V According to a report from February of this year, a security researcher called Lukas Stefanko discovered that hackers had brought the so-called Clipper Malware to Google Play via infected cryptocurrency apps.
2019-12-4 12:16 | |
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Throughout the year, hackers have been able to infiltrate multiple crypto exchanges across the world taking with them millions of dollars worth of digital assets. Despite the massive losses recorded, Bitcoin was able to shrug off the “FUD” and continue its uptrend.
2019-11-30 21:54 | |
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Hackers are getting bolder and smarter, which isn’t good news for the cryptocurrency community. On January 15th, Cryptopia shut down as they found a “security breach,” causing them to experience massive losses.
2019-11-28 20:18 | |
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SIM swapping is a method of infiltrating someone’s phone, presently being used in the crypto industry by hackers that want to steal cryptocurrency and take over social media accounts. The method has been used by multiple hackers, but a press release reveals that the FBI has already arrested two residents in Massachusetts for their own […]
2019-11-15 09:03 | |
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With millions of dollars of cryptocurrency stolen from crypto wallets every year, security researchers found one active botnet being run for about $160.
2019-10-4 23:30 | |
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Binance Coin suffered one of its worst losses this year on May 7th after hackers took off with 7,000 bitcoins. The heist cost cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance a total of $40 million. Four months later, it appears that everyone has forgotten about the security breach.
2019-9-7 00:01 | |
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The US government is looking to protect voter registration databases and systems from ransomware threats ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — a division of the Homeland Security department instituted by president Donald Trump in November last year — fears the databases could be at the receiving end of a ransomware attack.
2019-8-27 09:31 | |
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Cybersecurity is often described as a 360-degree threat. That term refers to the fact that cyberattacks can come from any direction, in hundreds of different forms — many of them unfamiliar and unexpected.
2019-8-21 20:18 | |
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Popular digital currency industry analysis Twitter account @Rhythmtrader states that almost 3,500 non-crypto companies have had their security breached so far this year. Well over a billion user accounts have been impacted by hackers.
2019-8-17 23:00 | |
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As long as cryptocurrency has value, people will try to steal it. According to the latest figures from cybersecurity firm Avast, a cryptocurrency stealing malware has been blocked more than 360,000 times by its software.
2019-8-6 14:47 | |
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Crypto thefts surged to $2. 2 billion in 2024, representing a 21% rise compared to the previous year. According to a Dec. 19 report by Chainalysis, this increase is closely tied to a growing wave of hacking activity, particularly by North Korean-linked cybercriminal groups.
A new postmortem report from Radiant Capital claims a North Korean state-backed hacker was behind the $50 million exploit of the protocol. The attacker impersonated a “trusted former contractor” of Radiant Capital to deploy malware via a “zipped PDF” file…
A cybersecurity firm yesterday reported that a group of notorious hackers from North Korea was able to steal $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from users by devising a fake blockchain game. Kaspersky Lab said that the Lazarus Group took advantage of a key vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser that allowed them to drain the […]
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Indonesian crypto exchange Indodax has reportedly suffered a $20. 5 million exploit, according to blockchain security firm Cyvers. The losses were spread across multiple chains, including a $1. 4 million loss in Bitcoin and a $5 million theft on the TRON and Polygon networks.
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The FBI has issued a warning that North Korean hackers are aggressively targeting employees in the crypto and decentralized finance sectors to steal company funds. These cybercriminals use sophisticated social engineering strategies to deceive even technically proficient individuals. According to…