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An Asian cryptocurrency exchange’s funds have been compromised in a security breach.The Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange KuCoin said in a statement that it detected large withdrawals of bitcoin and ethereum tokens to an unknown wallet beginning at 19:05 UTC time on Friday. In a live stream on 4:30 UTC time Saturday,
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Government officials in Argentina are refusing to negotiate with a ransomware group that forced them to briefly close all immigration checkpoints on Aug. 27.According to a Sept. 6 report on Bleeping Computer, a group of Netwalker ransomware hackers breached Argentina's immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, on Aug. 27 and
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A new study indicates that hackers are actively relying on the Dogecoin (DOGE) blockchain to expand a malware payload named “Doki.”According to cybersecurity researchers at Intezer, Doki is a fully undetected backdoor that abuses the Dogecoin blockchain “in a unique way” in order to generate its C2 domain address and
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Around 2,500 stolen bitcoins ($28 million) from the 2016 Bitfinex breach were transferred from the hacker’s wallet on Monday.The last time the Bitfinex hackers moved funds from the hack four years ago, they moved around $5 million worth of coins on June 24. This time around, the top crypto
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Data shows that the impacts of the recent Twitter hack were fairly limited, with a small handful of users sending just over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin to the address shilled as part of a classic crypto giveaway scam.According to recent reports, it appears that the impacts of the scam were
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Reports have emerged that hackers have demanded $7.5 million in Monero following an attack on Telecom Argentina S.A, a major telecom provider that serves the country’s north region. Anonymous sources claim the cyberattack has been on-going since Wednesday. At first, staff attributed poor IT performance to glitches within the system. But investigations
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Transaction data associated with crypto wallets used in the infamous Twitter hack suggests that out of the total of $123,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC), about 22% (approx. 2.89 BTC) was sent to an address, that blockchain analysis firm Elliptic believes is a Wasabi wallet. Hackers Using Wasabi Wallet to Erase Digital
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The hackers managed to receive over 400 payments in the scam, or $121,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to Tom Robinson, co-founder of cryptocurrency compliance firm Elliptic, the sum is quite low to become a historic one.On Wednesday, famous people and companies became victims of a big Bitcoin (BTC) scam. It
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Twitter accounts of celebrities, major corporate company accounts, and famous politicians were compromised in one of the biggest Twitter hacks in history. As per Twitter, the hackers managed to access to the company’s internal systems and tools.In a major Twitter hack on Wednesday, July 15, accounts of several high-profile individuals,
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After a massive number of Twitter accounts were hacked on July 15, one of the affected, Tron founder Justin Sun, put a bounty on the heads of those responsible. Tron's founder will give $1 million to the person or persons responsible for tracking down the hackers and providing pertinent data on
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