North Korea reportedly stole over $1 billion from the cryptocurrency sector last year through the activities of the Lazarus Group. So far this year, over a third of all cyber-related attacks on crypto...
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Hackers Hit Romanian Hospital, Demand Bitcoin Ransom – Bitcoin News
A hospital in Romania has been targeted in a ransomware attack with the perpetrators seeking payment in cryptocurrency to decrypt its database. The hack prevents the medical institution from reporting...
Hackers steal $3.5M worth of digital assets from GMX whale
Hackers have started the year with another exploit, with several million being taken from a whale holding large amounts of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol GMX’s native token. On Jan. 3, various...
Hackers steal $3.4 million in GMX tokens
A hack that exploited and drained GMX tokens from a whale enabled the perpetrator to exchange the assets for 2,627 Ether. The hacks go on and on. It seems that exploits are being found in the code of ...
Crypto Hackers Least Active In December, Crypto Daily TV 4/1/2023
In Todays Headline TV CryptoDaily News: 2022 crypto attacks were least in December. “Crypto market participants had few reasons to cheer in the last month of 2022 – with a low attack and theft f...
Bitcoin Core Developer’s BTC Stash Stolen, Binance CEO Promises To Freeze Hacker’s Wallet if Tracked
A hacker has reportedly stolen a Bitcoin (BTC) Core developer’s stash of the king crypto worth at least $3.6 million. Luke Dashjr says on Twitter that his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key was compromised...
Bitcoin core developer loses BTC stash to hackers
One of the contributors in the development of Bitcoin has claimed to have lost all his Bitcoin stash to a hacker at the cusp of the new year celebrations. According to the developer Luke Dashjr, the h...
North Korean Hackers Are Posing As Venture Capitalists To Steal Crypto Assets: Security Firm
A unit of the North Korean state-sponsored hacker Lazarus Group is impersonating financial and investment firms to steal crypto assets. According to security firm Kaspersky, the group known as BlueNor...
Anonymous hackers obtain and release 100,000 3Commas API keys
Hackers leaked around 10,000 API keys belonging to users of a trading platform 3Commas. Hackers obtain 100,000 3Commas API keys The hack that led to 100,000 API keys leaked online was revealed earli...
North Korean Hackers Pose As VC Firms And Banks To Steal Millions From Crypto Startups
North Korean hackers are taking it a notch higher by pretending to be venture capitalists to steal from cryptocurrency startups. BlueNoroff, the name given by cybersecurity experts to a crew associate...
North Korean hackers mimic crypto VCs in new phishing scheme
Kaspersky, a cybersecurity lab, is raising the alarm over renewed phishing tactics by the BlueNoroff group. The hackers are sponsored by North Korea which is financially motivated to profit from its c...
North Korean hackers are pretending to be crypto VCs in new phishing scheme: Kaspersky
BlueNoroff, part of the North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group, has renewed its targeting of venture capital firms, crypto startups and banks. Cybersecurity lab Kaspersky reported that the group h...
North Korean Hackers Ran Off With NFTs Using 500 Distinct Phishing Domains
An advanced persistent threat(APT) group from North Korea has wiped out more than 1,000 NFTs from victims of phishing attacks and made 300ETH. As per a recent twitter post of SlowMist it is noted th...
Are White Hat hackers the answer to growing exploits in the crypto market
Immunefi has given more than $65 million to white hat hackers in 2022 Smart contract bugs accounted for a majority of payouts Since its establishment in 2020, Immunefi, a prominent site for bug bounti...
Hackers steal $8M from BitKeep users by spoofing wallet app
Blockchain security firm Peckshield reported that roughly $8 million of BitKeep users’ funds were stolen via a hacked APK version of the crypto wallet. The BitKeep team confirmed the exploit on its of...
Hackers drain $8M in assets from Bitkeep wallets in latest DeFi exploit
While many are still enjoying the holiday season, hackers are hard at work, draining around $8 million in an ongoing BitKeep wallet exploit. On Dec. 26, some users of the multichain crypto wallet Bit...
North Korean hackers stealing NFTs using nearly 500 phishing domains
Hackers linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group are reportedly behind a massive phishing campaign targeting non-fungible token (NFT) investors — utilizing nearly 500 phishing domains to dupe victims. Bl...
Hackers liquidate Defrost Finance, triggering a $12m loss
Blockchain security watch firm PeckShield confirmed a flash loan attack in Defrost Finance has led to users losing more than $12 million. Defrost V1 and V2 under investigation After a few users comp...
North Korean Hackers Have Stolen Over $1,200,000,000 in Crypto Assets: Report
North Korean hackers are reportedly stealing more than $1.2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies over the past five years. According to the Associated Press, South Korea’s main spy agency, the National I...
Hackers exploiting OpenSea feature to steal expensive Apes and NFTs
Harpie is alerting NFT users of fresh tricks used by hackers involving gasless purchases on OpenSea. The platform claims that hackers have subsequently stolen millions worth of Apes in the past few mo...
North Korean Hackers Accused of Stealing $1.2 Billion in Crypto Funds
Alex Dovbnya Crypto-related criminal activities are being used as a highly profitable yet risk-free method for North Korea to gin up more cash Over the last five years, North Korean cybercriminals hav...
Ethical crypto hackers awarded $66M in bounties
Blockchain security firm Immunefi has reported that it has processed more than $65.9 million in crypto bounties paid to ethical hackers over 1,248 reports since it was founded in 2020. According to a ...
$20M saved by White Hackers
2022 witnessed billions lost in crypto hacks. But the contributions from white-hat hackers to keep the industry secure cannot be ignored. The hackers made the most out of the bear market, with billion...
North Korean hackers stole $1.2B of crypto over the last five years
North Korean hackers have stolen around $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets over the past five years, most of which were stolen in 2021 alone. A report by the Daily Mail cites an i...
North Korean hackers reportedly stole $1.2B in crypto since 2017
South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS) reportedly revealed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers stole $1.2 billion worth of crypto assets in the last five and a half years and the count...
North Koreans Hackers Steal Billions In Crypto In Five Years
The National Intelligence Service of South Korea calculated that threat actors with ties to North Korea have stolen roughly 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrencies. Also, other virtual ass...
Ethical crypto hackers win $52 million in bug bounties via Immunefi in 2022
Immunefi, a crypto-focused bug bounty platform, paid over $52 million to ethical hackers for finding bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency apps in 2022, a year that has seen the value of crypto hacks ...
Hackers Demand $2 Million In BTC From Chinese Electric Car Maker NIO
Bitcoin is becoming one of the top cryptocurrencies demanded by cybercriminals in exchange for information they steal from companies. In the auto manufacturing industry, data security issues have beco...
Hackers steal EV giant NIO users’ data demanding millions in Bitcoin
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Nio (NYSE: NIO) has confirmed a blackmailing incident by hackers involving stolen users and vehicle sale information. The EV manufacturer indicated that the...
Should crypto projects ever negotiate with hackers? – Cointelegraph Magazine
“A highly profitable trading strategy” was how hacker Avraham Eisenberg described his involvement in the Mango Markets exploit that occurred on Oct. 11. By manipulating the price of the decentralized ...
North Korean hackers send malicious app on Telegram to lure crypto
The North Korean hackers persuade people on Telegram to download ‘crypto storages’ that are infected with malware to steal their funds. Microsoft issued a warning on the matter. How attackers invade T...