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. origin »
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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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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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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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Let's say it right away: E3 is known for unfortunate security breaches. Generally, such breaches result simply in hackers revealing games ahead of the companies that made them. This year, the ESA, the organization in charge of E3's management, messed up in a way not even Keanu Reeves will be able to save them from.
2019-8-4 22:45 | |
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According to a report by US blockchain forensics firm CipherTrace, crypto asset exchange platforms have already lost $1. 2 billion in the first three months of 2019. This represents a substantial increase from last year.
2019-7-24 00:00 | |
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The UK-based supermarket giant Tesco has had its Twitter account compromised by hackers. Almost mirroring an attack last year, those behind it have attempted to scam Bitcoin from the store’s customers.
2019-6-26 02:00 | |
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Bitcoin‘s hash rate is skyrocketing, setting a new all-time-high and flying in the face of Facebook’s ambitious Libra cryptocurrency — a remarkably healthy sign for the world’s most popular blockchain.
2019-6-20 17:15 | |
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$nbsp; By CCN: Mark Karpeles, disgraced CEO of the infamous Mt. Gox crypto exchange, has revealed new plans in the blockchain space. According to Associated Press, he will launch a new venture with a view to making Japan a “global leader in blockchain.
2019-6-5 12:36 | |
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North Korean hackers have made a phishing attempt on users of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. News correspondents in Korea broke this development on May 29, 2019, detailing the ploy to steal Upbit users’ information.
2019-6-1 00:54 | |
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Hackers are still one of the biggest threats to Proof-of-Work networks. In the past year, digital thieves have used rented hash power to stage successful attacks on Vertcoin, Verge , Bitcoin Gold, Ethereum Classic, and several other cryptocurrencies, most of which have never recovered.
2019-5-24 02:01 | |
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Hackers who stole $40 million worth of bitcoin from Binance hot wallet are now juggling the stolen proceeds across multiple wallets by breaking them into smaller fragments, suggested a report from blockchain service company Coinfirm, May 08, 2019.
2019-5-10 05:00 | |
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Crypto security and intelligence firm CipherTrace has published its Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, revealing that exchange platforms all over the world have lost nearly $400 million as a result of hacks and thefts.
2019-5-3 17:40 | |
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Japan‘s top financial regulator has raided two cryptocurrency exchanges to enforce anti-money laundering rules, Reuters reports. Financial Services Agency (FSA) agents inspected digital asset firms Huobi Japan and Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange to make sure appropriate customer protections were in place.
2019-4-23 17:28 | |
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Cryptopia To Generate New Private Keys For All Its 457 Coins A few months ago at the beginning of the year, a cryptocurrency exchange in New Zealand was compromised by hackers. Since January when it happened, Cryptopia – the affected crypto exchange – has had its administrators constantly trying hard to regain control and ensure […]
2019-4-4 21:28 | |
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is thought to be backing an elaborate scheme entailing the hacking of crypto exchanges. The group alleged to be doing the hacking is called APT 38. It’s considered to be a highly-skilled state-sponsored group of bank hackers that managed to steal $1 billion from banks to fund its nuclear weapons program, according to Wired.
2019-4-3 16:27 | |
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Winter is coming for one of television’s most-pirated shows. On Monday, security firm Kaspersky released a new report diving into the means by which hackers are ruining your favorite pirated TV shows.
2019-4-3 05:26 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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For those following the information security space, it can feel as if the past year was just a series of announcements with one corporate security breach after another. Breaches like Equifax, Marriot, and many more have entered the general consciousness after the personal details of hundreds of millions of customers have fallen into the hands of hackers.
2019-3-31 16:30 | |
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The cryptocurrency sector may still be in a bearish phase, but the state-sponsored North Korean hacking group Lazarus remains absurdly bullish on the bitcoin industry – at least if its continued focus on the sector is anything to go by.
2019-3-28 02:30 | |
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Hacked New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has resumed trading on 40 cryptocurrency pairs, quantified as ‘secured. ’ However, users who held Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH), will be facing serious ‘haircuts.
2019-3-20 10:30 | |
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Yesterday, Toronto police issued a statement requesting public help to locate four men suspected of carrying out a string of Bitcoin scams across Canada. Late last year, the Calgary police service received information relating to numerous fraudulent transactions made at Bitcoin ATMs that specifically target one Canadian Bitcoin company.
2019-3-14 12:23 | |
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Most cyberattacks in the crypto space involve hackers finding a way around the security of crypto exchange platforms and gaining access to users’ funds. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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Coinbin, a South Korean crypto exchange, declared bankruptcy on February 22, 2019, citing foul play from inside the company. Business Korea reported on Coinbin’s recent failure, claiming that the company had lost $26 million as a result of theft and the subsequent bankruptcy declaration.
2019-2-27 23:13 | |
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Over the past two years, hackers have made away with over $300,000 worth of Bitcoin by sending blackmail emails to individual investors. Because the threats involve porn, the scam is known as ‘Sextortion’.
2019-2-24 20:06 | |
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Too slowly for some’s taste in many cases, but over the past year there have been numerous enforcement actions that... The post Authorities Increasing Enforcement Action Against Crypto Hackers, But Where Are the MT Gox Coins? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-2-17 20:20 | |
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Too slowly for some’s taste in many cases, but over the past year there have been numerous enforcement actions that... The post Authorities Increasing Enforcement Action Agains Crypto Hackers, But Where Are the MT Gox Coins? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-2-15 20:20 | |
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Months after its nigthmarish launch, cryptocurrency and blockchain security researchers are still finding vulnerabilities in EOS, according to recent activity on breach disclosure platform HackerOne.
2019-2-5 17:46 | |
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According to the Q4 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering report by CipherTrace blockchain intelligence agency, criminals stole a massive $1. 7 billion of cryptocurrency last year. Despite the savage bear market conditions and freefalling prices, cryptocurrency theft is on the rise.
2019-1-31 14:00 | |
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While 2017 was the year of crypto gains, 2018 was the year of crypto theft, according to new data. Crypto-related thefts increased roughly 260% from 2017 to 2018, largely fueled by a number of high-profile cryptocurrency exchange hacks.
2019-1-29 23:00 | |
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With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games just one year away, Japan isn’t leaving anything to chance. On Friday, the country approved a law that would allow the government to hack into insecure IoT devices, in order to survey the number of easily-hackable gadgets that exist within the country.
2019-1-28 16:35 | |
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Just as triumphant reports come in about Fortnite‘s success, the world’s most popular game is forced to contend with stories about security vulnerabilities that could have exposed its millions of players to hackers.
2019-1-18 22:33 | |
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The year started quite well for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Tron. just shortly after the promising looks of the market and during a bear market, hackers decided to strike in New Zealand. In this latest hack, a popular exchange in New Zealand known as Cryptopia was attacked and its security has been breached yesterday 14 […] The post Cryptopia, New Zealand’s largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-1-15 14:13 | |
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Twitter has been the host of multiple Twitter scams over the course of the last year, and it is clear that hackers aren’t planning to take time off for the start of 2019. A report from Indian Express indicates that a recent hack on Twitter took the national cricket association in South Africa as its […]
2019-1-14 21:49 | |
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A hacker group called The Dark Overlord threatened to release insurance files related to the 9/11 attacks on New Year’s Eve. The group noted that they had received the files after breaching the security of a law firm handling cases related to the Twin Tower terrorist attack.
2019-1-2 15:29 | |
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2018 was a good year for white hat hackers. These individuals and developers earned around $878,000 from crypto bug bounties during this year. The information was released by TheNextWeb on December 30.
2019-1-1 23:48 | |
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The year of 2018 saw cryptocurrency users and enthusiasts lose a lot of money. The year started off with… The post Hackers Netted Nearly $1 Million in Blockchain Bug Bounties in 2018 appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-1-1 21:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency transfers work because of the software developed by programmers like Satoshi Nakamoto and many other innovators along the way. As with all software, however, blockchain protocols are not perfect, and over the last decade black and white hat hackers have revealed many bugs.
2018-12-31 02:00 | |
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North Korea-linked hacking group Kimsuky has built three local AI environments as part of preparations for cyberattacks targeting cryptocurrency and financial companies, according to new cybersecurity research.
Bybit has sued North Korea, its intelligence agency and the Lazarus Group in a U.S. federal court as the exchange seeks to recover assets stolen in the record $1.5 billion crypto hack. Bybit takes Lazarus Group to US court Bybit…
U.S. courts sentenced two laptop farm operators who helped North Korean IT workers access firms, as crypto insider-risk warnings rise today.
TRM Labs says North Korea-linked hackers have stolen about $577m in 2026 so far—76% of all crypto hack losses—driven by massive hits on KelpDAO and Drift Protocol. A new report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs finds that organizations linked…
A $290 million exploit on KelpDAO’s cross-chain bridge on April 18, attributed by LayerZero to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, sent shockwaves through DeFi and erased more than $13 billion in total value locked across protocols within 48 hours. Attackers drained…
North Korea’s Lazarus Group has launched a new macOS malware campaign called Mach-O Man that uses fake online meeting invitations to trick crypto and fintech executives into executing malicious commands on their own devices, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.…
North Korea’s Lazarus Group is using “Mach-O Man” macOS malware and fake meeting invites to hijack crypto execs and fund nine-figure DeFi raids. Lazarus, the North Korean state-backed hacking outfit, has rolled out a new macOS malware campaign aimed squarely…