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More than $536,000 was transferred through Synapse Bridge as part of the attack on April 4, according to Ethereum blockchain data. origin »
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Gala Games said the unusual activity of its pGALA token was actually part of efforts to safeguard it from potential attack.
2022-11-4 08:53 | |
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As a U.S.-based regulated exchange, all Kraken customers are required to submit identification as part of mandatory Know Your Customer checks. SudoRare Attack Demands Answers The team behind the SudoRare...
2022-8-24 19:22 | |
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Solana (SOL) struggles to break key resistance after it suffers a huge loss on a hot wallet hack, losing over $5M creating so much panic in the heart of many faithful. The price of SOL looked strong in the early part of the week, trading above $40, trying to break the resistance before having an attack on some wallets drained more than $8 million from Solana users.
2022-8-4 17:00 | |
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On July 3rd, the Crema Finance decentralized liquidity protocol, which is part of the Solana ecosystem, was hacked. The hacker managed to find a platform vulnerability and committed a large-scale attack; as a result, he withdrew digital assets worth almost $10 million from liquidity pools.
2022-7-9 17:27 | |
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Terra's (LUNA) UST de-pegging from the U. S. Dollar was part of a ‘brilliant’ Soros-style stratagem that netted its perpetrator close to a billion dollars. So claims market analyst the Onchain Wizard, who delved into the anatomy of the attack to uncover its secrets.
2022-5-12 21:00 | |
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Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic seem to be nervous about people transacting with their wallets.
2022-4-7 16:13 | |
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The team behind Cashio, a Solana-based dApp that was hacked last week, published a postmortem report on the attack. In one of the biggest hacks on this network, the bad actors managed to steal $50 million by exploiting a vulnerability on the dApp.
2022-3-29 01:00 | |
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Bitfinex LEO Token has been rallying in the past week, as U. S. authorities allegedly captured the bad actors that took over 100,000 BTC from the platform back in 2016. LEO was created as a utility token as part of a mechanism to compensate the victims of the attack and repaid them for their losses.
2022-2-16 01:00 | |
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The founder of TRON and billionaire Justin Sun found himself in the middle of a controversy. As per this, the community accused the Chinese-born Grenadian diplomat of being a part of a "Governance attThe post Justin Sun lands in fresh controversy, accused of 'Governance attack' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-2-6 22:30 | |
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The crypto industry has always had unfortunate ties to online criminals. In the early days of the crypto industry, criminals made up a large part of crypto users. However, the benefits of cryptocurrencies continue to inspire hackers to demand crypto payments to this day, particularly in ransomware attacks, such as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack.
2021-6-9 14:56 | |
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Yearn Finance recently tweeted that its v1 yDAI Vault got hacked. A part of the deposits, worth $11 million, got lost. The attack helped the hackers to acquire a total of $28 million. A Detailed Look on the Yearn Finance Breach The breach was stopped by the Yearn Finance security team 38 minutes from itsRead More
2021-2-6 13:00 | |
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This resulted from the exploitation of a system flaw leading to a successful hack. The perpetrator made off with part of the platform’s fees for the day. The SushiSwap Smart Contract Loophole The system vulnerability was spotted on Badger DAO token DIGG.
2021-1-29 22:27 | |
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Andreas Antonopoulos has taken to Twitter to debunk the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) being spread by some crypto publications concerning a $22 bitcoin-double spend attack. The highly reputable Bitcoin evangelist has made it clear that the entire scenario was simply a chain re-organization in the Bitcoin blockchain, an occurrence that’s part of Bitcoin’s normalRead More
2021-1-23 18:00 | |
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A UC-San Diego student is accused of participating in a SIM-swapping scam that defrauded Apple and stole one victim’s crypto.
2020-6-10 21:01 | |
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Luyao Liu, Bitmain’s Chief Executive, and the former legal representative has been arrested for his part in a ‘mob-like attack' conducted on Micree Zhan, the exiled co-founder of Bitmain. Bitmain's Beijing subsidiary business license was apparently stolen, and the police held Liu responsible for what happened, together with others.
2020-5-9 21:41 | |
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As we draw near the end of 2019, the events surrounding Bitcoin on a weekly basis are growing increasingly important, as how BTC trades within the next couple of weeks could set the tone for where it trends in the first part of the new year.
2019-12-16 00:30 | |
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Dear friends, as part of our bounty campaign, Coinstelegram conducts airdrop of CTM tokens. As in any bounty campaign, we proposed to fulfill several simple conditions in order to get 30 CTM (0. 3 ETH).
2019-7-16 21:09 | |
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Coinspeaker Bitfinex Has Relinquished a $100 Million of its Loan from TetherFollowing the 2016 cyber attack on top cryptocurrency exchange - Bitfinex, that brought about its loss of $700 million Customer funds.
2019-7-3 14:20 | |
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Ordinary people weren’t the only victims of ISIS. The terror group also waged war on humanity’s cultural heritage, destroying ancient libraries, monuments, and statues. And now, thanks to the magic of technology, they’re coming back.
2019-7-2 13:00 | |
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XRP, the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, was the highlight of the cryptocurrency space after a hacker stole a significant amount of coins from GateHub, a wallet that supports the top cryptocurrencies in the market.
2019-6-17 17:30 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Mysteriously, 25 percent of mined Bitcoin Cash blocks are being tagged with “Satoshi Nakamoto. ” Given the May 15th hard fork as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade, it is rumored that the tagging is a miner signaling 51 percent attack.
2019-5-1 23:30 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.
2019-3-27 22:58 | |
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After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain went live yesterday on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s robust blockchain security.
2019-3-27 19:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx says it has been hacked, although it is not yet known how much has been lost in the alleged attack. The Singapore-based company announced the news on its official Telegram channel on Monday.
2019-3-26 14:22 | |
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New Zealand’s foreign minister Winston Peters will travel to Turkey urgently for a face-to-face with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the latter’s comments on the recent Christchurch terror attack which left 50 people dead.
2019-3-21 12:59 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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Yesterday, it was reported that Coinmama, an exchange with 1.3 million active users across the globe, suffered a security breach yesterday. That breach resulted in the theft of 450,000 email address and hashed password combinations. It was part of a broader attack which hit...Source
2019-2-18 23:03 | |
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Users of the peer-to-peer OTC Bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins have been targeted by cyber criminals as part of a phishing scam, resulting in the user’s Bitcoin being stolen. Forum users were being redirected to a phishing site, which was prompting the users to input two-factor authentication codes that were used to access user accounts and empty.
2019-1-26 16:37 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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The hacker or organization responsible for the 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic blockchain returned 100k USD worth in tokens. According to an article published in the official blog of the cryptocurrency Exchange Gate.
2019-1-13 09:16 | |
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Nick Spanos is an early adopter and innovator in the blockchain space. He is best known for launching Bitcoin Center NYC, the world’s first live cryptocurrency exchange, in 2013, right next to the New York Stock Exchange — as immortalized in the Netflix documentary “Banking on Bitcoin.
2018-12-15 21:43 | |
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Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security.
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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Remember that massive breach of the Mariott-owned Starwood hotel chain from last month, which saw 500 million users’ data stolen? The New York Times reports that the intrusion was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred on by China‘s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security.
2018-12-12 09:46 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Hackers Attack Gate.io Exchange Infecting 700,000 StatCounter Sites with Bitcoin-Stealing Malware Hackers Attack Gate.io Exchange Infecting 700,000 StatCounter Sites With Bitcoin-Stealing Malware Overstock CEO Boldly Claims Bitcoin is the Solution After the Looming Financial System Collapse Overstock CEO Boldly Claims Bitcoin is the Solution After the Looming Financial System Collapse Respected Bitcoin Trader ‘Crypto Rand' […]
2018-11-8 08:13 | |
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There has been a wealth of news of late about China and the Chinese authorities new position on cryptocurrency. In the shortest possible terms, the government want to totally ban cryptocurrency trading and investment and wish to stamp out the Bitcoin culture that has slowly built up in China.
2018-10-15 23:00 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.
2018-9-22 21:22 | |
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Special thanks to Emin Gun Sirer for review We’ve heard for a long time that it’s possible to achieve consensus with 50% fault tolerance in a synchronous network where messages broadcasted by any honest node are guaranteed to be received by all other honest nodes within some known time period (if an attacker has more than 50%, they can perform a “51% attack”, and there’s an analogue of this for any algorithm of this type).
2018-8-9 04:03 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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A new attack on Bitcoin users which gains control of Windows clipboard to swap out addresses is already monitoring 2.3 million targets, sources reported June 30. The malware, part of a family of threats known as “clipboard hijackers,” secretly gains control of memory, running in the background to ensure users do not notice its presence.
2018-7-2 20:18 | |
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It’s been a turbulent time for the cryptocurrency markets, so now is a good time to reflect on how and why we got here in the first place. First, an op ed makes the ideological case for Bitcoin.
2018-6-16 04:35 | |
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Taiwan has approved a new crypto law introducing licensing rules for VASPs and stablecoin issuers, with stricter compliance requirements and penalties.
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire slammed OUSD and similar consortium stablecoins, calling their track record of achieving scale and product-market fit 'absolutely.
LINE NEXT opens developer pre-registration for Unifi Pay, a stablecoin wallet targeting 300M users with zero-fee, instant USDT, JPYC, and IDRP payments.
JPMorgan warns stablecoins should face bank-like capital and liquidity rules, backing a US crypto framework only if it closes regulatory gaps rather than.
PhotonPay’s 2026 Global Game Operations Report identifies fractured payment rails and high cross-border fees as the hidden margin crisis eroding publisher.
Japan's SBI launched a JPY stablecoin, a Korean firm tested blockchain remittances, and the Philippines used stablecoins for worker payments as Russia.
Chainlink’s 47-bank cross-border payment pilot and MiCA pressure on Binance signal a week where crypto infrastructure collided with regulatory reality.