The Wagner Group in Ukraine. Via social media Six weeks after the Ukrainian army launched twin counteroffensives in northeastern and southern Ukraine, Russian forces all across the country are digging...
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Russian Stablecoin use increased after Ukraine attack: Report
Chainalysis, an American blockchain analytics company, has revealed that there is a rise in stablecoin utilization in Russia after the Russian attack over Ukraine, which has since witnessed sanctions ...
$100,000,000 Emptied From Solana-Based Crypto Trading Platform Mango Markets in DeFi Attack
A decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, Mango Markets, says an attacker took off with crypto assets worth tens of millions of dollars following an exploit on the platform. Mango...
Attack of the zkEVMs! Crypto’s 10x moment – Cointelegraph Magazine
Crypto is currently languishing like the internet did in 1996 with slow speeds and few practical use cases, says Steve Newcomb, chief product officer of Matter Labs. But a major increase in bandwidth ...
Hackers Attack MangoMarkets, TempleDAO, And QAN DeFi Platform
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...
Mango $100M Attack: How a Whale Swindled a Solana DeFi Favorite
Key Takeaways A whale manipulated the price of Mango Markets’ MNGO token to drain over $100 million from the platform. The attacker has put forward a DAO proposal that would see the project comm...
Sovryn Network Encounters First Successful Attack After 2 Years
Sovryn Network recently announced encountering a successful attack after two years of operation. Safety measures placed on the platform kept the exploit limited, resulting in a substantial recovery of...
Seven Bored Apes Holder Tricked via Phishing Attack
Fraudulent phishing activities have always posed a major threat to investors’ wallets. Time and again, several investors within the crypto world have been tricked and made to suffer huge losses. Recen...
North Korean Missile Tests Were Simulated Nuclear Attack To ‘Wipe Out’ South Korea, State Media Says
Topline North Korea on Monday said its latest volley of missile tests were designed to simulate a nuclear strike on South Korea, according to state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), escalating te...
Kyiv Hit By Missile Strikes After Putin Blames Ukraine For Crimea Bridge Attack
Topline Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities were hit by a series of missile strikes on Monday morning in an apparent retaliatory attack by Russian forces, a day after Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for an ...
White House Sees No Indication Russia Is Preparing Nuclear Attack After Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ Warning
Topline President Joe Biden’s comments this week suggesting Russia’s war in Ukraine could escalate to a nuclear “Armageddon” were not based on any new intelligence, National Security Council spokesper...
Bank of Brasilia to pay 50 BTC after a ransomware attack
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Bank of Brasilia, a government-controlled bank in Brazil, was targeted by a ransomware attack. The threat actors behind the a...
$570 million cryptocurrency attack targets blockchain connected to Binance
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage According to a representative for Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, a $570 million theft has affected a ...
Who Was Behind The Latest Zcash Cyber Attack? Is It Monero?
For the past few months, there have been continuous cyber attacks on cryptocurrency companies. The companies are facing a huge loss of crypto assets due to cyber attacks. Recently, the Zcash blockchai...
BNB Chain’s $566M Hack: Binance Network’s Major Bridge Attack Unpacked
Key Takeaways BNB Chain suffered a $566 million exploit Thursday after a hacker tricked the BSC Token Hub bridge into sending them two million BNB. The hacker took a novel approach to siphon the funds...
Zcash chain triples in size thanks to $10-a-day spam attack
The Zcash network has been under attack since mid-June with spam transactions filling up available blockspace and bloating the size of the chain. At less than a cent per transaction, the attacker is r...
Zcash is Clogging up in What Looks Like a Spam Attack
The Zcash protocol might be under a spam attack, as analysts pointed out on Twitter in a long discussion that started since Wednesday. Being a privacy-focused protocol, Zcash’s “Shielded Transaction” ...
Binance Coin Worth $100 Million Stolen In A Bridge Attack
In the latest development, Binance Coin (BNB) the native cryptocurrency of the Binance blockchain faced a major exploit with hackers stealing $100 million worth of BNB tokens. The exploit occurred on ...
Brazil’s BRB Bank Pays 50 BTC After Being Targeted by a Ransomware Attack
On October 3, the Bank of Brasilia, a Brazil-based bank controlled by the government, fell victim to ransomware for which a group of hackers demanded 50 BTC as a reward for not leaking its users’ data...
Are Monero Developers Behind the Latest Zcash Attack?
An unidentified spammer has wreaked havoc with Zcash node operators by filling transaction blocks with myriad shielded transaction outputs. At press time, Zcash miners had verified a block with four s...
Blizzard Struggling With Massive Launch Day DDoS Attack
Overwatch 2 Credit: Blizzard It’s never fun to launch a game and get hit by a massive Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that same day, but that’s what Blizzard is facing today with its rollout of...
Yet Another Attack On The Hazara In Afghanistan
On September 30, 2022, a suicide attack inside the Kaaj Educational Center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of West Kabul, Afghanistan, claimed the lives of over 35 girls and young women belonging to th...
FTX Exchange’s Traumatic Side of the Sybil Attack and Losses Story: The Analysis – crypto.news
Crypto exchange organization FTX reportedly faced Sybil attacks and losses. The company lost 111, 260 EUROS, with the largest number of estimated accounts (66.35), while that of users being less. Whit...
Some Leaking Stops As Russians And West Point Fingers Over Nord Stream Attack
Topline The Danish Energy Agency tweeted Saturday gas appears to have finished leaking out of the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline while Nord Stream 1 continues spilling its remaining fuel into the Bal...
Is Ethereum Under Attack? Unpacking the MEV-Boost Censorship Controversy
Key Takeaways The majority of Ethereum’s MEV-Boost relays are willing to censor transactions, due to OFAC sanctions concerns. Ethereum community members believe these relays’ actions constitute an att...
Nexo comes under regulatory attack
Yet another crypto lending platform, in the form of Nexo, has come under regulatory fire. Eight U.S. states file lawsuits accusing the lender of offering non-registered securities. Enforcement action ...
FBI Busts Russian-Linked Cybercrime Group Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack –
The FBI has recognized the guilty party behind the ransomware assault against Pilgrim Pipeline The agency had the option to do it with the assistance of Chainalysis’ crypto-tracer programming Chainaly...
Harmony announces update on Horizon Bridge attack recovery plan
The Harmony protocol team announced an update for its community and partners regarding its asset-recovery proposal, intending to preserve Harmony’s blockchain without minting new tokens, following the...
Tribe DAO Proposes Repayment For Victims Of Rari’s $80 Million Attack
Following an April hack attack that affected many Tribe users, the Tribe DAO community has proposed compensation. The tribe is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that controls three project...
Revolut suffers a hacker attack
The technology and financial company based across the Channel, Revolut, which focuses on banking services such as prepaid debit cards, currency exchanges, cryptocurrencies and peer-to-peer payments, h...
Is It A New Ukrainian Attack Drone?
Ukraine may be using a new type of drone boat supplied by the U.S. to attack Russian warships in the Black Sea. Russian forces found a drone boat washed up on a beach close to their naval base at Seva...