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In what may be the largest attack in decentralized finance, unknown hackers used an exploit on cross-chain protocol Poly Network to remove at least $610 million from three chains.According to a Tuesday update on Twitter, Poly Network said the attacks had removed assets from Binance Chain, Ethereum, and the Polygon
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The owner of crypto exchange Bitmart has filed a bid for pre-arbitration injunctive relief to prevent Chinese hackers from making illicit transfers using fraudulent Bitcoin SV (BSV) on its platform. According to a July 26 report, GBM Global Holdings, Bitmart’s owner, filed its bid with a New York federal judge despite
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Ethereum (ETH) based yield aggregator Rari Capital was attacked this weekend by a group of bad actors. As a result, 2,600 in this cryptocurrency were stolen from the Rari Capital Ethereum Pool, as a post-mortem report released by core contributors confirmed. The attack took place at around 1:48 PM UTC, May
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Fledgling decentralized finance protocol ForceDAO has had a rough start, with several incursions from hackers taking place just hours after it launched.The Ethereum-based yield aggregator had only just launched its airdrop campaign on April 3 when four malicious “black-hat” hackers managed to drain a total of 183 ETH worth approximately
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against three North Korean operatives. Making the announcement, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers condemned the North Korean program, the most famous branch of which is Lazarus Group. Demers said:"North Korea’s operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged three North Korean computer programmers with theft and extortion on various allegations, including stealing over $100 million in cryptocurrencies between 2017 and 2020. The thefts are part of a broader conspiracy that saw the alleged hackers steal over $1.3 billion, the DOJ
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In this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson discuss North Korea reportedly stealing your crypto to create nuclear weapons, Tesla rattling markets at an opportune time and Nigeria trying to ban crypto. Starting Feb. 12, in the Chinese calendar, we are in the year of the ox, or bull; at
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Hackers are increasingly attacking Russia’s government IT infrastructure to mine crypto, a law enforcement-affiliated expert said in a conference on Thursday.According to Nikolai Murashov, deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, hackers have been actively exploiting the IT infrastructure of Russia’s government bodies, defense contractors, medical entities
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The attack had a rather strange outcome, as the Hacken CEO stated that this “was not a typical hacking”, and he plans to discuss the project with the hackers.Recently, the homepage of the First Grey Hat Hackers Ideas Competition website was hacked by malicious actors who left a message on
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Hacken, a prominent cybersecurity, blockchain and cryptocurrency community is organizing the First Grey Hat Hackers Idea Competition where hackers and computer enthusiasts can submit their ideas to detect and counter vulnerabilities in crypto and DeFi projects. The hackathon offers Grey Hat hackers an opportunity to implement their ideas with the
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