While the cryptocurrency market and Bitcoin (BTC), its flagship asset, have been struggling in the first half of 2022, a study shows that criminal activity in the sector has increased substantially du...
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Hackers spread PennyWise crypto malware through YouTube
Hackers are using YouTube to spread a new type of crypto-malware. This malware duped users into downloading software that steals data from cryptocurrency wallets and crypto browser extensions. PennyWi...
Hackers Attack British Army’s Twitter
More than $7B was stolen in cryptocurrency scams in 2021, according to Chainalysis Crypto scammers briefly hacked the official Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts of the British army Rug-pull scams...
Crypto hackers loot $2 billion in H1 2022 as cybercriminals thrive
Although the cryptocurrency market and its flagship asset Bitcoin (BTC) have been struggling in the first half of 2022, a study has shown that this period has also seen a major uptick in criminal acti...
Crypto Hackers Target British Army’s Twitter and YouTube Accounts
Hackers are going all-in in their quests to draw attention to their preferred crypto projects. The latest antic is a hack of the British Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts to promote non-fungible tok...
Hackers promote crypto on British Army Twitter and YouTube pages
Hackers breached the Twitter and YouTube pages of the British Army on June 3 and made several tweets promoting non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies. British Army Twitter account @BritishArm...
Hackers Stole $100k worth Of ERC-20 Tokens from Optimism NFT Marketplace
On Friday, Quixotic, a marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that was built on the layer-2 scaling solution Optimism, reported an attack that resulted in the loss of ERC-20 tokens worth a total o...
Hackers hijack Ankr gateway for Polygon and Fantom networks
Ankr, a node infrastructure provider for proof-of-stake blockchains, suffered a domain name system (DNS) hijack on the RPC endpoints for Polygon and Fantom, according to a tweet by Polygon’s chi...
Harmony Intensifies Search for Horizon Bridge Hackers, Ups Bounty to $10 Million – crypto.news
Harmony (ONE) has revealed on June 30, 2022, that it has begun a ‘global manhunt,’ in collaboration with all crypto exchanges, law enforcement, Chainalysis, and Anchain.AI, to fish out the hacker(s) w...
Is Polygon Under Attack? Hackers Target Polygon and Fantom
Ankr, a provider of blockchain infrastructure, announced on Friday that hackers were targeting some of the services it offered to Polygon and Fantom. Ankr reported that they are looking into their Pol...
Harmony: hackers steal $ 100 million
Horizon, which connects Harmony to the Ethereum and Binance Chain ecosystem was hacked, resulting in a loss of about $100 million in ETH. The million-dollar hacker attack on Harmony On 24 June, Harmo...
North Korean Hackers Reportedly Behind the $100 Million Harmony Exploit
The notorious North Korean hacking group – the Lazarus Group – is suspected to be the one that attacked the cryptocurrency protocol Harmony. The criminal organization has been involved in numerous sim...
Hackers Begin Laundering Funds Stolen From Harmony’s Horizon Bridge – crypto.news
Hackers who made off with $100 million worth of altcoins from the Horizon blockchain bridge five days ago have begun disposing of their loot. $22 Million Worth of Ether Shifted to Tornado Cash In a Tw...
Hackers Move Funds via Tornado Cash
Harmony Protocol still hasn’t found harmony after a recent hack. In fact, the drama on Harmony Protocol’s Horizon Bridge continues. After the company offered a $1m reward to the hackers, the criminals...
Harmony Hackers Begin Laundering Ethereum Stolen From Horizon Bridge
The hackers responsible for stealing $100 million in altcoins from Harmony Protocol‘s Horizon bridge have begun to launder the funds, according to PeckShield. The hackers sent three transactions...
Harmony Hackers Begin Laundering Funds Stolen from Horizon Bridge
The hackers of the Harmony Horizon Bridge have begun laundering the $100 million in Ethereum and other tokens stolen from the blockchain. The hackers behind the $100 million altcoin theft from Harmony...
Money Laundering Of Stolen Harmony Blockchain Funds Initiated By Hackers
Just the previous week, hackers attacked harmony blockchain to wipe out $100 Million worth of crypto assets. But in the latest news, hackers are making their moves and have already started to launder ...
Hackers can now bring cargo ships and planes to a grinding halt
Container cargo ships sit off shore from the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Armed with little more...
Ethereum Rival Tumbles As Hackers Drain About $100,000,000 From Its Crypto Bridge
One Ethereum (ETH) competitor is taking a massive hit after hackers drained approximately $100 million worth of crypto from its cross-chain bridge. The Harmony (ONE) team says the breach occurred on t...
Hackers Steal $100M In Harmony Horizon Bridge Exploit
Harmony’s cross-chain protocol, the Horizon Bridge, has been hacked, leading to a loss of funds of around $100 million. Stolen Altcoins Swapped For ETH Earlier today, the Horizon Bridge, which facili...
Crypto hackers broke into the Harmony server stealing around $100 million
Recently a crypto hackers group who possibly maintain their operations in the US attacked the crypto firm Harmony. The blockchain company reportedly lost around $100 million after a massive hack in th...
Hackers steal $100 million in crypto from Harmony’s Horizon bridge
So-called blockchain bridges have become a prime target for hackers seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in the world of decentralized finance. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Hackers have stol...
Inverse Finance Yet Again Exploited of $1.2 Million by Hackers
2 hours ago | 2 mins read Defi News Flash loans are a sort of crypto loan often obtained and reimbursed in a single transaction. The attackers could convert 99,976 USDT and 53.2 wBTC into ETH. For the...
Hackers can steal crypto keys on Intel, AMD CPUs via ‘Hertzbleed’ vulnerability
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! New research shows that malicious players can steal cryptographic keys on Intel and AMD processors using a side-channel vulner...
NFT Hackers used GoblinTown fake NFT site via hacked Venezuelan’s Newspaper Twitter handle
NFT Hackers has once again used a fake Goblintown NFT page to extract user information, and it is not the first time. In another expected news, one more brand has been hit by NFT hacks and has most li...
‘The goal is never to seek the top’: The wild, hair-raising ride of a 30-something investor who battled against NFT hackers and dodged the crypto crash
Vinny Zane has a taste for life — and an appetite for risk. The 38-year-old teacher and father of a 2-year-old son on Brooklyn’s Coney Island got into crypto in 2017 with $4,000 worth of Bitcoin, and ...