Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday told CNBC media that the cryptocurrency exchange is getting closer to identify the identity of a hacker or hackers who organized a $570 million hack on its BNB blo...
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Hackers Compromise the Twitter Account of GateIO to Promote a Phishing Scam
Hackers are once again taking advantage of social networks to do their thing. This time, they compromised the official Twitter account of a popular crypto exchange ecosystem to promote a phishing scam...
Crypto hackers steal $3 billion in 2022, expected to surpass the previous year’s record
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Despite the fact that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have been continuously crashing this year, digital currencies...
DeFi Protocol Olympus DAO Hacked! Hackers Drained Over $300K Through Smart Contract Exploit
The crypto sector has brought massive returns since its inception, and it has become the first choice of investment option due to its futuristic vision and revenue potential. However, hackers also see...
Blockchain Hackers Stole Nearly Half a Billion in Q3 2022
Even though the cryptocurrency market is in a deep slump, cybercriminals are still actively hacking blockchain technologies or launching scams. According to the data analyzed by the Atlas VPN team, bl...
Hackers Continue to Use Tornado Cash Despite US Treasury Sanctions
Tornado Cash, a privacy solution on EVM, was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in August. Are hackers still using Tornado Cash despite sanctions? In August 2022, The US Treasury’s Office of For...
North Korean hackers target Japanese-based cryptocurrency exchanges
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage A report by The Japan News has said that the Lazarus hacking group has attacked several cryptocurrency exchanges based in Japan. ...
How Hackers Took Over CoinDCX Twitter Account To Promote Bogus XRP Ads ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX’s Twitter account was exploited for over 7 hours weeks ago. The hackers took control of @CoinDCX and kept posting a fa...
DeFi protocols and their hackers
Welcome to the 89th Weekend Shift! What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write ab...
Crypto Hackers Gross Over $3 Billion From 125 Hacks so Far This Year – Coinotizia
Data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that October is “the biggest month in the biggest year ever for hacking activity.” The firm added that crypto hackers have grossed over $3 billion...
Crypto Hackers Gross Over $3 Billion From 125 Hacks so Far This Year – Featured Bitcoin News
Data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that October is “the biggest month in the biggest year ever for hacking activity.” The firm added that crypto hackers have grossed over $3 billion...
Crypto Hackers Step Up With Record $3 Billion Theft This Year
Crypto hackers surpassed the level of performance they did last year that enabled them to get away with $2.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies, setting their own “all-time high” this 2022. With still ...
Stolen Crypto Total Hits $3B as Hackers Reemerge After Quiet Summer: Chainalysis
Hackers have outdone themselves. With four new exploits reported on Tuesday, $718 million has now been stolen across 11 different DeFi protocols, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Af...
October becomes worst month in DeFi history as hackers steal $718M across 11 protocols
DeFi protocols have lost roughly $718 million across 11 projects so far in October alone — a new monthly record with more than 15 days remaining, according to Chainalysis data. With about $3 billion l...
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 Harvest – Hackers Steal $100 Million From DeFi Platform Mango Markets
Mango Markets, a decentralized trading platform on the Solana blockchain, has become “ripe for harvest” when it fell victim to hackers who stole more than $100 million from the platform, Fortune repor...
Hackers Use Fake Solana Phantom Updates to Steal Crypto (Report)
Scammers have reportedly sent consumers a new Solana Phantom security update assuring it will grant additional protection. However, wrongdoers have installed password-stealing malware through airdropp...
Hackers Bag Over $2 Billion
BNB Chain lost 2 million BNB coins worth $568 million in a cross-bridge exploit last week. The incident is yet another on the list of major DeFi attacks that have occurred through 2021-22, resulting i...
Binance Smart Chain Exploited by Hackers
The post Binance Smart Chain Exploited by Hackers appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao (CZ) revealed in the recent tweet that a cross-chain bridge and the BSC Token H...
Beeple Discord Server Exploited by Hackers Attempting to Drain Wallets
As one of the most prominent NFT artists around, Beeple has gathered quite a community around himself – and unscrupulous third parties have repeatedly attempted to get a piece of the pie themselves. A...
The Hackers Looted US$23M and Returned 70% of Total Amount to Transit Swap
The loot in the transit Swap ecosystem occurred on the 2nd of October. The company traced the IP address and valid email id of the hackers after a few hours. A Twit...
Hackers Steal $21 Million by Exploiting a Flaw in Transit Swap
Transit Swap published a Tweet to share the news that a hacker had recently stolen $21 million from its network. Reportedly, the hacker exploited the bug issue on the Swap contract to steal funds. An ...
Hacker returns 70% of $21 million taken from Transit Swap DEX
A hacker stole $21 million from decentralized exchange (DEX) Transit Swap, later returning about 70% of it. The multi-chain DEX revealed the hack happened after an attack on a bug in its code, which i...
Hackers Release L.A. School District Data Over Failure To Pay Ransom, Officials Say
Topline Hackers on Saturday leaked data stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest public school system in the country—after officials refused to pay a ransom to the group ...
Hackers Steal $21 Million From DeX Aggregator Transit Swap
33 seconds ago | 2 mins read Defi News Peckshield provided a flowchart to illustrate the movement of the stolen assets. Transit Swap thanks its customers for their patience and faith. About $21 millio...
Web3 is the solution to Uber’s problem with hackers
Uber is a staple of the gig economy, for better or worse, and a disruptor that once sent shockwaves throughout the mobility space. Now, however, Uber is being taken for a ride. The company is handling...
MacOS Users targeted by Lazarus Hackers
The Lazarus Group are North Korean hackers The hackers are now sending unsolicited and fake crypto jobs Latest variant of the campaign is being scrutinized by SentinelOne The Lazarus Group is a group ...
NFT marketplace OpenSea pays $200,000 bounty to two ethical hackers
OpenSea has paid $200,000 in bounty rewards to two ethical hackers who discovered separate critical vulnerabilities in the NFT marketplace in the last ten days. Each hacker was individually rewarded $...
Lazarus hackers target macOS users luring them with crypto dream job offers
The infamous North Korean hackers known as the ‘Lazarus Group’ are at it again; this time targeting unsuspecting Apple macOS users hoping to land a dream job in the cryptocurrency industry. Specifical...
Hackers Nab Nearly $1 Million in Crypto From Ethereum ‘Vanity Adress’ Exploit
Roughly $950,000 worth of crypto has been stolen from an Ethereum “vanity address” generated with a tool called Profanity. The exploit leveraged a similar vulnerability related to the recent $160 mill...
Hackers Breach Jason Falovitch’s Wallet and Steal NFTs, ETH Worth $150K Hackers Breach Jason Falovitch’s Wallet and Steal NFTs, ETH Worth $150K
Controversial crypto entrepreneur Jason Falovitch on Sunday reported that hackers breached his crypto wallet on OpenSea and stole four NFTs and six ETH. The value of the stolen assets is estimated to ...
Profanity Exploit Continues as Hackers Drain Another 732 ETH From Crypto Wallet
A hacker managed to get away with 732 ETH worth around $950,000 from a crypto wallet. Interestingly, blockchain security firm PeckShield revealed that the theft was carried out via the same vanity add...