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Three individuals have been arrested for defrauding New York-area banks of over $10 million by exploiting security vulnerabilities and converting the stolen funds into crypto. origin »
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A crypto trader lost over a million dollars after hackers accessed his FTX account by exploiting an API connected to the trading account. The post FTX Users Lose Millions to API Exploit appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-23 14:00 | |
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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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Sovryn, a bitcoin-based DeFi protocol, loses about $1 million worth of crypto to cyber attackers in a price manipulation hack. The attacker(s) achieved this by exploiting a vulnerability discovered in the legacy Sovryn Lend/Borrow protocol. Sovryn Loses $ 1 Million…
2022-10-6 13:36 | |
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Attackers are exploiting poorly configured cloud accounts to mine crypto, Google warned users in a recent report. Cryptocurrency mining is a computationally intensive activity. And Google Cloud customers can access it at a cost.
2021-11-28 21:00 | |
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It’s well known in crypto that hackers follow the money. In the earlier days, centralized exchanges and soft wallets were the prime targets. Over recent years, attackers have also expanded their remit into DeFi smart contracts, exploiting programming bugs and vulnerabilities to drain lending and liquidity pools.
2021-11-3 16:40 | |
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Tesla’s owner and crypto’s most notorious influencer Elon Musk tweeted on the 25th of June his new Shiba Inu will be named Floki, which promptly led to a frantic launch of a myriad of meme tokens exploiting the name.
2021-7-8 04:00 | |
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FinCEN is warning cybercriminals are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, and asks firms to be especially vigilant regarding their dealings with virtual currencies.
2020-8-1 18:46 | |
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Cybercriminals are reportedly exploiting the death of former basketball star Kobe Bryant, by preying on the sentiments of unsuspecting victims looking to download images of the late sports legend. Microsoft’s security team recently found a malicious crypto-mining script embedded in the wallpaper of late Kobe Bryant.
2020-2-1 22:00 | |
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Readers of a certain age will remember a time when banks could increase your wealth, as well as store it. If you’re old enough to remember when Pokemon was just a card game, you might also remember a wise grandparent or uncle telling you to put your allowance in a high-interest savings account, where it […] The post How A Crypto Lending Business That ‘Hates The Banks’ Avoids Exploiting Its Customers appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-6-30 19:16 | |
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The crypto ecosystem has long been plagued by artificially inflated crypto exchange volume data. Now it has been revealed that automated bots have been quietly exploiting another sector of the ecosystem: Dapps.
2019-6-13 22:00 | |
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Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has confirmed that attackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic server to install XMR mining malware
2019-6-11 01:46 | |
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Cybercriminals are exploiting a known vulnerability in the software Confluence to mine XMR
2019-5-8 22:42 | |
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Arbitrage bots are exploiting "inefficiencies" in decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a Cornell Tech study.
2019-5-7 16:00 | |
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By CCN. com: Cryptos’ attempts to distance and differentiate itself from traditional financial markets has taken another knock. This follows revelations that trading manipulation using high-frequency bots is rampant on decentralized exchanges (DEX) by researchers at Cornell Tech.
2019-4-16 17:06 | |
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Gold and bitcoins worth of hundreds of thousands of euros are the spoils of an elaborate online fraud discovered by the postal police in Liguria, Italy. Bitcoin Scam Artist Impersonated Swiss Crypto Firm Local sources reported that the Italian authorities recently arrested a Genoa-based computer expert who entangled his victims by exploiting encrypted communication channels and false identities found on the darknet.
2019-3-22 20:16 | |
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As per an all new report released by Imperva — a security research firm— crypto miners have been “exploiting hundreds of fragile Docker hosts” associated with the Monero project. As a result of this, many XMR based transactions are being obscured and all of the intrinsic data related to these tx’s is becoming nearly impossible […]
2019-3-14 18:41 | |
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Regardless of what the overall cryptocurrency market momentum may bring to the table, there will always be arbitrage opportunities to take advantage of. That is also what makes these markets so interesting to watch at any given time.
2018-12-18 11:45 | |
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Making money in the cryptocurrency world requires an open-minded approach first and foremost. Numerous opportunities exist to score profits along the way, and the small price gaps should not be passed up on whatsoever.
2018-12-5 12:00 | |
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After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
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Uganda will seek to regulate crypto assets to prevent criminals from exploiting digital currencies to scam citizens. This comes as thousands of Ugandans have fallen victim to a number of Ponzi schemes, including the D9 Club, which promised to pay members in bitcoin.
2018-11-24 21:00 | |
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A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by exploiting a tactic known as “SIM swapping” to take over phone number accounts by duping wireless carriers.
2018-11-22 14:00 | |
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The recent victim to a cryptojacking attack is U. S. -based non-profit organization Make-A-Wish Foundation’s website. Since March 2018, the hacker has been taking advantage of the Drupal vulnerability to mine Monero cryptocurrency, as per research findings from an independent research lab.
2018-11-21 12:00 | |
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Members of the ruling elite in North Korea are suspected of launching two scams aimed at exploiting gullible crypto investors still attempting to get in early on a potential moon shoot. The totalitarian state is thought to be using such schemes to stay afloat in the face of international sanctions.
2018-10-27 00:00 | |
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A bill that seeks to create a task force to combat the use of cryptocurrency in financing terrorism has just passed the House of Representatives. House Resolution 5036 (H.
2018-9-28 01:12 | |
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The disclosure brings to question whether state-sponsored or organized hackers would have succeeded in exploiting the Bitcoin software bugs had they known about them to threaten what was thought to be an impregnable blockchain network.
2018-9-24 14:00 | |
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Although the Chinese government has hailed their crypto ban as successful, it appears that traders have found multiple ways to circumvent the ban despite tightening scrutiny on crypto by state regulators.
2018-9-10 13:00 | |
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Yi He warned users about an alleged Binance impersonation scam as CoinUp denied Zhu Pan links and CPX volatility drew scrutiny online.
Tennessee resident Misam Abidi faces federal charges over an alleged $1.9 million crypto Ponzi scheme involving fraud, loans, and tax violations.
A Newcastle, Washington, man has received five years in prison for helping move fraud proceeds through bank accounts and crypto exchanges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Geoffrey K. Auyeung pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors said nearly…
Former Celsius executive Roni Cohen-Pavon has been sentenced to time served by a U.S. federal judge nearly three years after authorities charged him in connection with the crypto lender’s collapse and manipulation of its CEL token. According to proceedings held…
Crypto compliance demand is surging as AI fraud evolves faster than firms can respond, Sumsub CEO Andrew Sever says. Crypto compliance firms are reporting a sharp rise in demand as AI fraud attacks become faster, more sophisticated, and harder to…
The most urgent crypto scam news on Capitol Hill arrived Tuesday as the House Homeland Security Committee held a joint subcommittee hearing on how transnational criminal organizations use crypto fraud, online scams, and digital extortion to steal from Americans. Crypto…
CoinDCX co-founders won bail after a Thane court found no prima facie case in a cheating complaint tied to a fake trading platform in India.