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Hackers Target Li Finance And Get Away With $600,000 In A Recent DeFi Hack
Li Finance smart contract contains a bug that the hacker exploited to access and steal the user’s money. We learned that this amount came from 29 users’ wallets, and since it happened yesterday, the p...
Hackers Access Client Data on Bitcoin (BTC) Investing Platforms Following Third-Party Breach
Two notable players in the crypto investing space are responding after a malicious actor gained access to customer data through internet marketing company HubSpot. Among the over two dozen HubSpot cli...
Li Finance DeFi Protocol Loses $600k to Hackers, Promises to Fully Reimburse Users – crypto.news
Li Finance (LiFi) protocol is the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) platform to fall victim to hackers. A loophole in LI.FI’s pre-bridge swap smart contract was exploited by the rogue actor, enablin...
Cyber crime up as hackers use Ukraine war as distraction
Online hackers have been more active since Russian forces invaded neighboring Ukraine in late February, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday. In an interview on “...
Hackers get away with $3M worth of DAI and Ether
Multi-token decentralized finance (DeFi) marketplace Deus Finance has become the latest victim of an exploit resulting in over $3 million losses in DAI and Ether (ETH). DeFi analytic firm PeckShield t...
NVIDIA Data Held Hostage by Hackers Who Want to “Help” Crypto Miners
Technology company NVIDIA has received a rather odd request from a group of hackers calling themselves Lapsus$. The organization is asking that the company make their graphics cards capable of mining ...
Nvidia’s Hackers Group offer to sell GPU hash rate limiter, make further claims and demands.
Nvidia reported in later February about investigating a potential cyber attack affecting some parts of its online business. A hacker group has broken into Nvidia’s data and has already dumped 19...
Hackers return NFTs stolen from Treasure marketplace
TL;DR Breakdown: The NFTs stolen from Treasure marketplace have been returned by the hackers. Hackers stole Smol Brains, Legions, and several other NFTs of different collections. Treasure DAO is work...
Hackers Steal NFT Monkeys on Top Ethereum Layer 2
Key Takeaways Hackers have stolen hundreds of NFTs from the Arbitrum NFT marketplace Treasure. Treasure developers quickly froze trading to avoid further losses. Since the incident, many of the hacker...
Nvidia faces data leak after ignoring hackers’ demand to remove GPU hashrate limits
Nvidia Corp confirmed that some proprietary information and employee credentials were stolen by hackers during a breach last week. “We are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and som...
Nvidia hackers selling software unlock for graphics card crypto mining limiters
A hacking group that infiltrated Nvidia servers last month is attempting to sell software that could unlock crypto mining hash rate limiters on the firm’s flagship graphics cards. A South American hac...
Nvidia Hackers Are Selling Ethereum GPU Mining Workaround
The hackers behind last week’s Nvidia data breach claim to have a customized driver that unlocks the limitations on the GPU manufacturer’s graphics cards that prevent them from being used ...
Nvidia Hackers Offer to Sell GPU Hash Rate Limiter Bypass
A hacking group that claims to have infiltrated Nvidia servers is attempting to sell some of the data which includes a way to unlock graphics cards for Ethereum mining. In late February, semiconductor...
Anonymous Hackers Claim to Have Crashed Russian Propaganda Station
The Anonymous hackers collective claim to have taken down the website of the Russian propaganda station, RT News. Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective. It is k...
Why White Hat Hackers Are Vital to the Crypto Ecosystem
Even if the Optimism team had noticed and temporarily paused bridge transactions via the sequencer during a theoretical attack, an attacker could have still wreaked havoc on layer 2 decentralized fina...
Opensea Stalls Ongoing Upgrade as Hackers Exploit Their Systems – crypto.news
Earlier today, PerkShield Inc tweeted flagging some suspicious activity on OpenSea. The tweet explained a possible phishing attack as users migrated their NFTs according to emailed instructions. OpenS...
North Korean Hackers Launder Crypto Using Sophisticated Techniques: Report
According to a recent analysis, the Pyongyang-led cybercrime organization – the Lazarus Group – employs advanced techniques to steal and launder cryptocurrencies. The gang has shown “remarkable adapta...
Cardano Doubled The Reward For Hackers To Uncover Vulnerabilities In Its Blockchain
The public blockchain platform Cardano declares that it has doubled the payout for white hat hackers and bounty hunters that can identify vulnerabilities or bugs in its smart contracts blockchain. The...
Cardano Foundation Doubles Reward Offered to Hackers for Uncovering Bugs on Its Blockchain – Security Bitcoin News
The Cardano Foundation recently said it has doubled the payout offered to hackers and bounty hunters that identify bugs or vulnerabilities within the Cardano blockchain. The foundation said the six-we...
Cardano incentivizes “hackers” to find its network vulnerability
In a bid to further secure its network from bad actors, smart contract-enabled blockchain, Cardano has revealed that it is doubling the bug bounty for whoever discovers and reports any vulnerability o...
Cardano Doubles Bug Bounty For Hackers Who Find Vulnerabilities
Cardano has announced that it is doubling its bug bounties for hackers who find and report vulnerabilities on the network. Bug bounties are not a new thing and all projects offer it in one form or ano...
IRA Financial Breach: Hackers Snatch $36 Million From US-Based Fintech Startup
Many individuals have joined IRA Financial Trust with the dream of establishing a secure future in cryptocurrency. But it did not turn out the way they expected. A number of users reportedly lost thei...
North Korean Hackers Stole $400 Million in Cryptocurrency Last Year — Ether Accounts for 58% of Stolen Funds – Coinotizia
North Korean hackers stole cryptocurrency worth about $400 million last year in at least seven major attacks on crypto platforms. “Only 20% of the stolen funds were bitcoin … And for the first time ev...
Crypto Weekly Roundup: Bitfinex Hackers Arrested, Russia To Legalize Crypto, Binance Invests In Forbes, Sequoia Invests In Polygon, And More
It has been an exciting week in crypto. A comedy-rapper and her husband have been arrested in New York over money laundering charges in connection to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, where around 120,000 BTCs ...
Is it safe to contact white hat hackers to restore your lost Bitcoin?
A BBC article reports that white hat hackers helped a Bitcoin early adopter access her locked wallet. Although the story ended on a happy note, others in a similar situation could be prompted to follo...
Bitfinex exchange hackers caught five years after
TL;DR Breakdown Hackers of Bitfinex exchange nabbed five years after. Couples behind hack faces 25 years n prison sentence. The United States of America Justice Department has announced the arrest of ...
Hackers Steal $4.4 Million In Attack On DeFi Infrastructure Provider Meter
Another blockchain infrastructure platform has fallen victim to hackers, and it’s the third attack in recent weeks. This time Meter, the blockchain infrastructure, was attacked and saw more than $4.3 ...
Hackers steal 4.4 million from blockchain infrastructure firm Meter
California based blockchain infrastructure company Meter is the latest victim of a cyber attack, losing $4.4 million on Saturday in eth and btc. According to blockchain analytics firm PeckShield, Met...
These rules by this NFT creator could keep digital artworks safe from hackers
One of many sectors that boomed exponentially within the cryptocurrency sector last year was that of non-fungible tokens (NFT). Its growth in sales volume from just around $94 million in 2020 to $24.9...
Solana: hackers steal 320 million from Wormhole bridge
The Wormhole bridge, which connects the Ethereum blockchain to the Solana blockchain, was successfully attacked by hackers. Solana, hackers hit the Wormhole bridge The news was published on Wormhole’...
Hackers Steal Nearly $320 Million Worth of Crypto Assets from Wormhole
In one of the largest crypto thefts of all time, Wormhole Portal, a bridge between Solana (SOL) and other blockchains, was exploited for approximately 120k wrapped ETH. The total value of the stolen c...