Optimism Losses 20 Million OP Tokens to Hackers as Wintermute Gave Wrong Address

Wintermute warned that hacker(s) have a week to consider being a whitehat. The crypto market marker threatened to track all responsible for the hack after the one-week grace period. A mysterious hacke...

Hackers In A $620 Million Cryptocurrency Heist Are Eager To Cash Out

Not only had the North Korean hackers pulled off a daring theft, but the loot’s worth had climbed 15% while they sat on their hands. Since then, things have progressed quickly, and these crimina...

Top 5 Most-Popular Methods Hackers Use to Steal NFTs » NullTX

Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) started to take a significant place in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, especially after 2020. NFT markets in which game companies, celebrities, and many investment firms showe...

Hackers Siphon $5M Worth Tokens From Cosmos-based Osmosis

2 hours ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News Developers have shut down the Osmosis blockchain to avoid additional harm. This flaw was regularly exploited, as shown by on-chain transactions. Decentralized tr...

Uphold’s Director Of Blockchain And Crypto Research Slams Ethereum Calling It A Paradise Of Eden For Hackers

The Ethereum Merge is the long-awaited switch from the inconvenient Proof of Work to the more secure Proof of Stake. Ethereum is projected to become more scalable as a result of the transition, while ...

North Korean Hackers Used Binance for Laundering Millions of Dollars Worth of Crypto: Reuters

Alex Dovbnya Bad actors have laundered billions of dollars worth of crypto with help of Binance, according to Reuters According to an investigation conducted by Reuters, the Lazarus Group, a notorious...

Hackers Target Lifestyle App STEPN With DDoS Attacks

STEPN, the web3 lifestyle app, requested its users to “take rest” as its network came under a DDoS attack for the umpteenth time in the last few months. The recent of these attacks occurred on July 5,...

Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord Gets Stomped by Hackers Yet Again – crypto.news

On 4th June, Bored Ape Yacht Club holders woke at dawn to find out they had been hacked.  The hacker posted vindictive links based on giveaway tokens and utilized the discord and BAYC servers. The Pro...

Hackers’ Phishing Attack Cuts Off Moonbirds NFTs Worth $1.5 Million

Despite the place of security in the crypto space, there have been some hacking events once in a while. One of the newly victimized assets is the Moonbirds NFTs. Cybercriminals recently use phishing a...

The different ways in which hackers attack Web3 games

Play-to-earn games, one of the biggest revolutions of Web3, are increasingly attracting hackers, who attempt to steal funds by attacking smart contracts.  Hackers and Web3 gaming: strengths and vulner...

Beeple Twitter Exploits Sees Hackers Drain Over 200 ETH

Digital artist Mike Winkleman, better known as Beeple, has become the latest victim of a phishing attack after his Twitter account was hacked. Scammers shared a link to a website that purported to be ...

Hackers compromise Beeple’s Twitter to post Louis Vuitton phishing link

The cryptocurrency market has seen a lot of scams in recent times. In recent times, the cryptocurrency market has seen an increase in scams. The latest scam to hit the space is that of Beeple’s Twitte...

Hackers Exploit Axie Infinity’s Mee6 Bot, Sending Falsified Announcements – crypto.news

According to a recent report, the MEE6 bot on Axie Infinity’s Main server was hacked on Wednesday.  The hackers utilized the MEE6 bot to grant access to a fake Jiho account and make phony mint announc...

US Federal agencies warn businesses against mistakenly hiring North Korean hackers

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has alerted the general public and businesses against unwittingly hiring North Korean IT workers. In a joint statement released with the U.S. Department of T...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Coin Mixer Allegedly Used by North Korean Hackers To Process Over $20,000,000 in Crypto

The US government is continuing to crack down on illicit crypto activity by targeting a website that it says obfuscates transaction data. In a new press release, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sa...

How can you prevent your crypto from getting lost to hackers?

Privacy and security of cryptocurrencies are among the most critical aspects in 2022. Unfortunately, many groups are using the correct method while others are not. These follow cruel practices to stea...

Wanted: Conti Hackers – US Dangles $15 Million For Info On Russian Cybercriminals

The United States offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the Russia-based cybercrime organization Conti, which has been accused of cyber-extortion attacks around the globe, State Dep...

U.S. Sanctions Crypto Mixer Blender.io for Aiding Axie Infinity’s Hackers

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury has added cryptocurrency mixing platform Blender.io to its sanction list, according to a Friday statement. U...

US government announces bounty on hackers 1

The United States has announced a $15 million bounty on information that will lead to the apprehension of the Conti ransomware group. According to the report, the government of the US has set aside tw...

OpenSea Discord Server Hijacked by Hackers to Promote Scam NFT – crypto.news

OpenSea’s Discord server has been hijacked by bad actors to promote a scam non-fungible tokens (NFT) partnership with YouTube. This is not the first time that hackers are targeting the leading NFT mar...

Hackers Post Fake Announcement Following OpenSea’s Discord Server Hack

7 hours ago | 2 mins read NFT News The attacker gained access to the server’s management panel through webhooks. On-chain data reveals 13 wallets believed to have been hacked. OpenSea, a marketplace f...

OpenSea’s Discord Channel Compromised, Hackers Promote NFT Scam

Blockchain security company PeckShield informed about the latest security incident against OpenSea’s Discord channel, following multiple complaints from users on Twitter. The popular NFT marketplace n...

Anonymous Hackers Claim to Have Breached Russian Payment Service Provider Qiwi – Bitcoin News

A hacking group linked to the Anonymous collective has allegedly hit the popular Russian payment processor Qiwi. Network Battalion 65 announced on social media it had managed to gain access to the pla...

Hackers already bagged $1.57B, more than 2021 record

Crypto investors may be crying losses from their investments amid the general downtrend in the market. However, hackers are winning in the present market condition, as blockchain security firm PeckShi...

Hackers Steal $80 Million From DeFi Platforms Fei Protocol And Rari Capital

Hackers are at it again, and this time they hit it big time. According to a tweet from smart contract research company BlockSec, decentralized finance platform Fei Protocol and Rari Capital are the la...

Cryptocurrency hackers stole $77 million in DeFi attack

Crypto hackers have made away with $77 million in proceeds from a theft affecting the recently merged Fei protocol and Rari Capital. The incident is the most recent in a series of hacks that have been...

PackShield Reveals Deus Finance Lost $13.4 Million To Hackers

Deus Finance, a decentralized finance application, has been the latest protocol to suffer a hack. Blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed the exploit, noting that the hacker(s) stole $13.4 millio...

As Per A Latest Study Cryptocurrency Hackers To Stole $1.3 Billion In The First Quarter Of 2022

In the previous 11 years, about $12 billion in cryptocurrency has been stolen. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) hacks have become more common, with fake exchanges taking up to 40% of funds. The first reco...

New Report: Blockchain Hackers Stole $1.3 Billion In Q1 2022

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. Ac...