Between April 21 and 27, hackers stole $1.8 million from Merlin, $22,638 from Kucoin and $170,000 from Trust Wallet and attacked UniSat Wallet. The U.S. indicted two men for DPRK-linked money laundering, and a U.K. parliamentary panel heard plans to curb cybercrime with better crypto seizure skills.
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The United Kingdom should augment its cryptocurrency asset seizure abilities as part of an effort to combat ransomware and other cybercrime, a parliamentary panel heard. The rate of seizures is not commensurate with the level of crypto adoption, said Aidan Larkin, CEO of Asset Reality.
Between April 14 and 20, hackers stole $23 million from Bitrue, $7 million from Hundred Finance and $10.5 million from 11 blockchains. The SafeMoon hacker returned 80% of the stolen $8.9 million, MetaMask suffered a third-party breach and Kyber Network advised LPs to withdraw funds from Elastic.
Every week, Information Security Media Group rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. Between April 7 and April 13, hackers stole millions from GDAC, Yearn Finance and SushiSwap. We found out how bad cybersecurity was at FTX, and the U.S. Treasury warned DeFi to shape up.
Every week, Information Security Media Group rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. Between March 31 and April 6, hackers returned millions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency, a rogue validator stole $25 million, and bad actors used new malware to steal cryptocurrency.
Every week, Information Security Media Group rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. In focus between March 24 and 30: SafeMoon, an update on Euler Finance, crypto-stealing Clipper malware, BitKeep, theft fail at Swerve Finance, THORChain, APT43 and an update on ParaSpace.
North Korean hackers are stealing cryptocurrency to fund operations under an apparent mandate from Pyongyang to be self-sufficient, threat intel firm Mandiant says. The regime probably expected its hackers to pay their own way before 2020, but the novel coronavirus pandemic exacerbated its demands.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. In focus between March 17 and 23: The New York State Department of Financial Services reminds BitPay that regulations exist. Also, Euler Finance, Gala Games, BitGo, ZenGo, General Bytes, Bitzlato and ParaSpace.
Bitcoin ATM manufacturer General Bytes suspended its cloud services supporting more than 15,000 machines after a hacker exploited a vulnerability in its software to steal user passwords and private keys and made off with cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. In focus between March 10 and 16: a ChipMixer takedown, Euler Finance and Poolz Finance hacks, bugs on 280 blockchains, Dero coin, and a report from the Financial Action Task Force on ransomware financing.
U.S. and German police seized darknet cryptocurrency anonymizing service ChipMixer, which federal prosecutors say cybercriminals used to launder $3 billion including proceeds from ransomware extortion and North Korean cryptocurrency hacking. Among its alleged customers: LockBit and the Russian GRU.
Threat actors who mine digital assets using other people's infrastructure have found a lucrative new cryptocurrency to motivate their hacking: the privacy-focused currency named Dero. CrowdStrike says it discovered a first - a Dero cryptojacking operation operating on a Kubernetes cluster.
Hackers are draining millions of dollars from decentralized finance protocol Euler Finance in an ongoing attack. The theft of crypto funds worth $197 million marks the largest exploit in 2023 so far. Euler Finance said it is aware of the incident.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in the world of digital assets. Between March 3 and March 9, Tender.fi paid a white hat reward to a thief, a Uranium Finance hacker began to launder stolen funds, Algodex revealed security breaches and BitKeep was working to reimburse hack victims.
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