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According to a press release published on Feb. 16 by Norway's National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim), authorities have seized 60 million Norwegian Kroner ($5.85 million) in stolen cryptocurrencies linked to the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack last March. According to senior public prosecutor
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The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime – known in Norwegian as Økokrim – said it is the biggest crypto seizure ever made by the country's police. Source
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The crypto exchange’s current chief executive blasted weak cybersecurity controls at the company under Sam Bankman-Fried’s leadership. Source
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A small-scale decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has suffered a rather sizeable smart contract exploit leading to an estimated $120 million being stolen from its protocol.BonqDAO, which is behind the Bonq protocol, told its Twitter followers on Feb. 1 that its protocol was exposed to an oracle hack that allowed the
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Alameda purchased 10% of the total STG supply from a Stargate Community sale in March 2022. Alameda promised to lock up the tokens until March 2025 but became embroiled in controversy for illegally borrowing user funds from its sister company, crypto exchange FTX, some months later. Original Source
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Hackers used a privacy protocol called RAILGUN to try to conceal their transactions.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has concluded its investigations into last year’s crypto hack that saw US-based Harmony protocol, lose $100 million worth of crypto. According to the FBI, the investigation has revealed that the June attack
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed the Lazarus Group and APT38 as the culprits behind the $100 million Harmony Bridge Hack from June 2022. The North Korea-linked cyber group had long been suspected of being behind the attack but their involvement hadn’t been confirmed by authorities until now.
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Embattled crypto exchange FTX fingered a $415 million hack from November as part of assets recovered to pay off creditors.Fallen crypto exchange FTX has identified a $415 million crypto hack as part of the $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery. In a statement, the exchange’s new CEO, John Ray III, said it
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Harmony hack perpetrators Lazarus Group recently moved $63.5 million in ETH, with Binance and Huobi recovering $2.5 million. North Korea’s Lazarus Group of cyber criminals linked to the $100 million Harmony hack recently made moves again. According to pseudonymous blockchain detective ZachXBT, Lazarus Group moved a sizable part of the stolen
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Bitcoin core dev Luke Dashjr has lost $3.6 million to a hack The perpetrators managed to gain access to Dashjr’s PGP key. Binance is monitoring the situation and CZ has offered to freeze the stolen funds if possible. The hack may be associated with a security breach that occurred in November 2022. Luke Dashjr,
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