Bitcoin, get over here! Scam used Mortal Kombat to steal crypto

Ransomware scammers in the US have incorporated the classic gore-filled videogame Mortal Kombat into their latest attempts to relieve unlucky victims of their bitcoin. As reported by PCMag, the attack...

Crypto markets wrought ahead of US inflation data as regulatory issues steal focus

Crypto markets were roiled by the SEC last week, and now there’s even more uncertainty after the New York Department of Financial Services ordered Paxos to stop issuing BUSD. Next up is U.S. inf...

North Korean Criminals Steal Over $1B Crypto in 2022: UN Report

North Korean crypto crime rate reached an all-time high in 2022. A cybersecurity firm said North Korean criminals moved over $1B worth of crypto. Ransomware attackers extorted $456M in 2022 compared t...

Hackers steal record $3.8B during 2022 – Chainalysis

Hackers stole roughly $3.8 billion in 2022, making it a record year for stolen digital assets, according to the latest report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. According to the report, 82.1% ...

Hackers Take Over NFT Project Azuki’s Twitter Profile, Steal Over $750K Worth Of Asset

The Twitter account of top non-fungible token (NFT) project, Azuki, was compromised on Friday, resulting in the loss of over $750,000 worth of crypto assets. Following a takeover of the project’s acco...

Litecoin attempts to steal Bitcoin’s thunder, but a pullback might be in the works

Litecoin may be headed for a cliff as price to RSI divergence manifests. LTC metrics still highlight strong demand, but some whales are taking profits. Litecoin [LTC] was taking advantage of its press...

Cybercriminals Steal Over $3.5 Billion In Crypto In 2022

Imagine the sad faces of thousands to even millions of investors in the cryptocurrency market when news of a huge amount of digital currency assets have been stolen by hackers during a single fiscal y...

“Didn’t Steal Funds,” Says SBF And More

In a noteworthy week, Bitcoin has started to recover and has even crossed the $20K mark. Furthermore, the total crypto market cap crossed the $1 trillion mark. Let’s find out more.  Bitcoin Bitcoin cr...

SBF Maintains Claim He Did Not Steal Users’ Funds in New Substack Letter

While SBF covered many areas in his substack letter, one thing was echoed over and again, and that is the fact that he did not steal users’ funds. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former Chief...

I Didn’t Steal Funds Or Stash Away Billions: Sam Bankman-Fried

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, in an astonishing and highly unusual blog post, stated that he did not steal any funds or stash away billions as claimed.  He blamed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao...

Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Didn’t Steal Funds! Explains What Went Wrong

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has explained that he did not ‘steal’ funds. He added that FTX could have made customers considerably whole if it had bee...

‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has largely denied the allegations against him in a “pre-mortem overview” of the crypto exchange’s insolvency. In a Jan. 12 post on Substack, Bankman-Fried claimed the...

Altcoins Steal Crypto Market Spotlight With Big Gains

Well this was unexpected. At least to most of the trading crowd who watched crypto market caps shrink substantially throughout the past 13 months. The many altcoin bounces that we’ve seen to start 202...

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 ...

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...

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...

Cybercriminals Steal $3M From Crypto Mining Pool BTC.com

8 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Client funds of $700,000 and corporate funds to the tune of $2.3 million were stolen. BTC.com allows users to mine several cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin an...

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...

Caroline Ellison Admits She And Bankman-Fried Conspired To Steal From FTX Customers And Mislead Investors, Reports Say

Topline Caroline Ellison, a longtime confidante of befallen crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, claims she and the former billionaire FTX founder agreed to deceive the exchange’s investors, lenders...

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 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...

Paxful pulls ether, citing centralization and scams used to steal billions

Paxful is removing ether from its crypto marketplace tomorrow, linking related tokens to scams that have “robbed people of billions.” “Revenue is nice, but integrity trumps all,” CEO Ray Youssef...

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...

Quant Analyst PlanB Says 5,800% Bitcoin Rally Is Coming, Calls Current Price a ‘Steal’

The popular quantitative analyst PlanB is doubling down on his forecast of a massive rally for Bitcoin (BTC). In a new interview with crypto analyst Scott Melker, PlanB says Bitcoin could soar more th...

How Did This Guy Steal Crypto Worth $20 Million?

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The US Department of Justice has accused a 25-year Florida man of stealing over $20 million worth of cryptocurrencies as part of ...

Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Nov. 28 that it has fined Facebook developer Meta €265m for breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Specifical...

Hackers steal $42M from Fenbushi Capital founder’s wallet

General partner at Fenbushi capital Bo Shen tweeted on Nov. 23 that malicious players stole $42 million from his personal wallet on Nov. 10. A total of 42M worth of crypto assets, including 38M in USD...

Banksy Tells Shoplifters To Steal From Guess, Says Company ‘Helped Themselves To My Artwork’

Artwork by Banksy (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/WireImage) WireImage The anonymous and unconventional graffiti artist Banksy posted an unusual request on Friday, asking any potential shoplifters among his fa...